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The new game developed by Elemental games inc. is considered a new word in the genre. People, who compare it with Elite and Star Control say, that Rangers is better. The Universe is full of various characters and elements. Rangers and freighters, liners and pirates, fighters and diplomats converse with each other as real humans in real life. There are 5 different races and alien's characters are really different and depend on race. Stars and planets, asteroids and minerals, weapons and equipment, artifacts and wormholes that you can use.
Who are you in the game? At 1st Jan 3000 most humans and some other species celebrated New Year. But you did not. You arrived recruitment office on the Earth and now you are part of the Federation Armed Forces. You are one of the numerous partisans. You can be fighter or pirate, trader or courier and the selection depends only on you. Your purpose is to kill main enemy ship or to make peace with it. But your primary objective is remain alive and do not let aliens enslave or kill all humans.
Each NPC want to remain alive, make more money, kill his enemies, etc. All the time ships ally and fight, trade and explore. You live in world of competition.
Who is your enemy? They are called clissans and they are organic spaceships that behave according to orders from their mothership named Makhpella. They attack coalition's ship without any message and all attempts to converse with them failed. Scientists are developing Clissan Communicator and you must help them by bringing mortal remains of clissans.
Who are in coalition? Coalition is union of humans and four other races, who know to understand each other. They live in relative peace for a long time and they managed to destroy most pirates and solve most economical and cultural problems. Half of planets in known part of galaxy are populated by one of the five races and each planet have own government.
Each planet produces and consumes different wares and ships help them to trade. Also planets sale ship equipment that rangers can use. Planet can give to ranger a quest or delivery order or ask ranger to kill pirate. If you complete the task you receive money. Also planets produce battleships to defend themselves. The planet's opinion about you depends on your behavior.
The graphics in the game is full 2D. But it looks nice. Different ships, that move on the screen firing, landing on and taking off look realistic. Planet's axis rotation looks realistic and even moons look cool. If you use old computer you can select custom installation or switch graphics details off.
The music is also OK, but there is no audio messages. Only simple melodies. Also firing is supported with sound.
Four difficulty levels and cheatcodes make everybody able to pass the game. If you got good result you can post your topscores on official internet site. Special rating for cheaters is available.
The most important disadvantage of the game is random map generator. If you are lucky the map generated on hard difficulty will be easy. The developers promise to fix this in the next patch.
The game is not one more sequel of Elite, it's new game. It is good for those who love turn based strategies and role play games.
Who are you in the game? At 1st Jan 3000 most humans and some other species celebrated New Year. But you did not. You arrived recruitment office on the Earth and now you are part of the Federation Armed Forces. You are one of the numerous partisans. You can be fighter or pirate, trader or courier and the selection depends only on you. Your purpose is to kill main enemy ship or to make peace with it. But your primary objective is remain alive and do not let aliens enslave or kill all humans.
Each NPC want to remain alive, make more money, kill his enemies, etc. All the time ships ally and fight, trade and explore. You live in world of competition.
Who is your enemy? They are called clissans and they are organic spaceships that behave according to orders from their mothership named Makhpella. They attack coalition's ship without any message and all attempts to converse with them failed. Scientists are developing Clissan Communicator and you must help them by bringing mortal remains of clissans.
Who are in coalition? Coalition is union of humans and four other races, who know to understand each other. They live in relative peace for a long time and they managed to destroy most pirates and solve most economical and cultural problems. Half of planets in known part of galaxy are populated by one of the five races and each planet have own government.
Each planet produces and consumes different wares and ships help them to trade. Also planets sale ship equipment that rangers can use. Planet can give to ranger a quest or delivery order or ask ranger to kill pirate. If you complete the task you receive money. Also planets produce battleships to defend themselves. The planet's opinion about you depends on your behavior.
The graphics in the game is full 2D. But it looks nice. Different ships, that move on the screen firing, landing on and taking off look realistic. Planet's axis rotation looks realistic and even moons look cool. If you use old computer you can select custom installation or switch graphics details off.
The music is also OK, but there is no audio messages. Only simple melodies. Also firing is supported with sound.
Four difficulty levels and cheatcodes make everybody able to pass the game. If you got good result you can post your topscores on official internet site. Special rating for cheaters is available.
The most important disadvantage of the game is random map generator. If you are lucky the map generated on hard difficulty will be easy. The developers promise to fix this in the next patch.
The game is not one more sequel of Elite, it's new game. It is good for those who love turn based strategies and role play games.
i think i remember reading about this on some russian site a yr ago or something.
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