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Boxart: Armada 2526
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Armada 2526

Rating: 3.7 (8 votes cast)
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System requirements

  • OS: XP, Vista, 7
  • CPU: 1 GHz
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 Compatible 3D Video Card with 128 MB RAM
  • Sound DirectX 9 Compatible
  • Disk Space: 2 GB Free
  • DirectX9.0c+, .NET Framework 2.0+, Visual C Runtimes (all included in installer)
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    Armada 2526 continues the great tradition of space opera games. You guide your race from its first interstellar journeys, until it becomes a mighty galactic empire. Along the way, you'll explore the galaxy, conduct research, diplomacy and trade, found new colonies, maneuver mighty star fleets, and fight epic battles.

    Although the game is complex, and the possible strategies endless, powerful help and advisor features, help you get up to speed quickly. Unlike many games in this genre, Armada 2526 focuses on providing a game that can be finished in a reasonable time, and emphasizes battle and strategy over economic micro-management.

    The game consists of two sections. The Star Map is where you run your empire: manage your colonies, deploy your fleets, do research, and conduct diplomacy. It uses a turn based system, so you can take as long as you wish to plan your actions. However, once battle is joined, you switch to the battle module and fight it out in a real-time 3D system that brings to life the beauty and visceral carnage of space combat.

    • Turn based star map for moving fleets, managing colonies, performing research, and conducting diplomacy.
    • Customizable map size and number of players, allowing you to construct tight 2 player confrontations, or huge galaxies with 50 or more players, and thousands of stars. Map designer included.
    • Twelve animated alien races to play and battle against.
    • Full featured diplomacy system, with a highly intelligent AI and options to ask favors, make demands, and issue ultimatums.
    • More than 100 technology items to research, including advances in ship construction, ground defenses, biological warfare, and psychic powers.
    • 3D Real-time battle system for fighting huge battles with 100 or more ships per side.
    • Ground combat is integrated into the combat system, allowing marines to be landed to battle ground defenses while ship combat rages overhead.
    • More than a hundred beautifully crafted ship models, including mighty dreadnaughts, long range missile cruisers, fighters, carriers, and asteroids for bombarding planets.
    • Tough A.I. opponents.

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    12th Feb

    By Blackrain696969

    The best thing about this game is the fact you can hotseat it.Not many games these days have a hotseat option which is a must for any turn based strategy game. Sword of the stars claims to be a hotseat game but isn't. Lan and internet games are not Hotseat games.. Being able to have many people play a turn based game off the one pc is and old but good idea and this game excells at it something like upto 60 people could play this game on one pc.. now that would be an epic game lol.. So just for this fact alone its worth buying not to mention some nice graphics.. This game cuts down on the micro management yet it still yields a suprising depth to it. You can set maps to Huge in custom games and the amount of systems is just mind blowing. Both ground and space combat to partake in and even tho the tech tree seems small there are many diffrent buildings and strategies to use them on certain planets. I would love to see more customisation of ships but im still happy with a more race based set line of ships. I think this game is perfect for multiplay and specialy hotseat because its not bulked down by a mass amount of micro management but still gives an indepth feeling. All in all i gave it 4 stars because it brings back good old memories of Master of Orion.

    24th Dec 2009

    By flanaagan_d

    The game is a traditional space based strategy game, with a turn based strategic level and a tactical battle level. The strategic screen is generally quite good, and it is easy to select and send your ships and fleets where you want. You can also tell transports and assault ships to make the same journey several times, which takes the tedium out of moving large amounts of population and troops around. It is easy to get the information you want regards to your ships and colonies, and you can alter the display to show relevant information on mini maps etc easily. My main issue is that you cannot choose the loadout or weapons on your ships. I like choosing what sort of guns and fighters I'm going to put on a ship and this game does not allow you to do that. The turn based section is unfortunately a different matter. Fighters do not appear to work as far as I can tell - you can tell them what to attack but they do not seem to be able to do any damage. 3 carriers worth of fighters did not seem to even make the smallest kind of orbital defences shields glow. My biological attack ship did not seem to work - not sure why. Could be me but I think was the game. Ships do not take damage, or have armour/structure stats. They glow a different colour (a good idea) when their sheilds take damage, but just pop when they are overloaded (not so good). When you speed up the game time, you have to hold your mouse button down - it is not a turn on/off feature. Irritating. The battles are nice and quick however, and the interface is easy to use and understand. All in all 3 out of 5. Buy if you like the genre, but if not go for another 4x space strategy game.

    22nd Dec 2009

    By scifiguy90

    This game is very interesting. Much of the game is similar to both Sword of the Stars and Master of Orion. It is very simple to master and the gameplay is smooth. I personally would have preferred better star map graphics, but it is still not too bad to look at. I love the diverse types of star systems and there are even systems with neutron stars. Each of the races do have a uniqueness to them, but the basics are shared between all of them. The soundtrack is pretty decent and does make the game more fun to play. Overall, I think it is a game that lovers of strategy games and scifi should get. I have certainly enjoyed it.
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