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Light of Altair

Rating: 4.5 (13 votes cast)
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System requirements

  • English version of Microsoft(r) Windows(r) 2000/WinNT/XP/Vista
  • Pentium(r) 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ processor
  • 256MB RAM
  • 1 GB of uncompressed free hard disk space
  • 100% DirectX(r) 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
  • 100% Windows(r) 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
  • DirectX(r) 9.0c (included)
  • 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX(r) 9.0c compatible Hardware Accelerated video card and latest drivers
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    Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building game with a deep plot. Grow colonies from landing pod to metropolis, while sending off new spaceships to expand your territory to other worlds. You are not alone in space, 8 factions from different parts of the world are all following their own agendas in the solar system; diplomacy and orbital-combat are essential to learn.

    Light of Altair is based on a custom built 3D engine that enables easy zooming from galaxies all the way down to individual moons and asteroids covered in the colonies with their glass domes, mines and launch pads. Advanced shader technology is used to add rich details and lighting to surfaces.

    KEY FEATURES:

    • Gameplay
      Colony building on planets and asteroids throughout a system.Manage industries and colonists to grow from a tiny landing unit into a towering city.

      Detailed storyline based on a future-history of Earth. Rich single player campaign traced across the galaxy. Play out important plot events from different sides taking on the role of one of 8 different factions.

      Detailed tech-tree with over 30 weapons, buildings, and ship-mods to discover.

      Design ships: Pick a ship schematic and equip weapons, armour and mods to hardpoints. Then command shipyards to build a fleet from the design. Cinematic camera views of space battles in planet orbit.
    • Graphics
      DirectX 9 with pixel shader 2.
      Next-Gen Lighting model.
      Animated buildings.
      Particle Systems.
      Texture Glows.
      Multi-textured bumpmapped models.
      Detailed procedural and hand-painted textures.
      Richly painted portraits of all characters.

    Download the Demo of the game here.

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    CUSTOMER REVIEWS

    19th Nov 2009

    By Greythorne

    An engrossing strategy game that presents one story from several points of view as you progress. New game elements are introduced in a well-designed sequence that leads to a fun sense of discovery and challenge. Mercifully light on micromanagement, while offering plenty of opportunities to make decisions that feel like they mean something. A very solid indy title.

    24th Jun 2009

    By routlaw

    This is a very smartly designed mission-oriented space strategy game. I found that (when playing on Hard, the Normal mode is far too simple for veterans of the genre) that the scenarios required a delightful amount of planning and smarts to complete with a the game's competent AI. There is no sandbox mode, and while I think it would be entertaining if there was one there is plenty of content given the reduced price of the game. Very entertaining title, highly recommended to fans of games like Digital Reality's older space strategy titles.

    17th Jun 2009

    By laiziras

    For starters i liked this game even if it's only little over 100mb in size. My only problems with this game is that there is no sandbox mode wich cuts the replay value of the game and second more alarming problem was that after playing this game for 2 hours i could barely stand up for several hours after, because my head was spinning from turning the planets at high speed and zooming in and out repeately. But if you can get over that you cant walk properly then it's a decent game that's more focused on colonization and economy than combat, just the way i like it.
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