Imperium Galactica

Imperium Galactica is a system developed by the Hungarian game development company Digital Reality and published in 1997 computer game that combines elements of turn-based strategy games and real-time strategy games. The sequel to Imperium Galactica II appeared in 2000, Nexus:. The Jupiter Incident, developed by Mithis Entertainment, was as another successor and " Imperium Galactica 3 " is planned, but the game was renamed and converted to a more tactically oriented game in development.

Action

The earthly galactic empire is about to collapse, especially the war with the species of Garthogs it wears down rapidly. At this point, appears a promising young Commander in the sector around the planet Achilles, Naxos and San Sterling and ensures order. Due to increasing skills, the Commander has slowly but steadily ever greater galaxy put until he has to try to unite the galaxy in order to resist the invasion of an extra- galactic species, the Dargslan can.

Description

Imperium Galactica is a single player real-time strategy game. Even if it is a Echzeitspiel, it is as 4X game classified ( eXpand, eXploit, eXplore, eXterminate ) as it was also Master of Orion. Initially, the player has only a small spaceship with three escort fighters under his command. Thus, the player can perform simple jobs while he can build three space colonies. A special order is necessary for his promotion to captain. After transport (Chapter 2), smaller ships can be produced in the now 4 space colonies, the command ship is also something of combat. Again, there is a critical job that is necessary for the transport. After promotion to Commander gives a flagship as well as the opportunities for research and for the production of orbital stations. At this time you are in the permanent war with a neighboring race called Garthogg. With the extinction of the Garthogg you will be promoted to admiral, who has the resources of all the colonies, and has many areas to explore. It is constantly harassed by foreign nations, but one must also establish new colonies. As Admiral finally also has the ability to lead diplomatic negotiations.

The story serves as an entry point, it does gradually with new game concepts and brings them to the application - planetary management, space battles, ground battles, research, Components & ship production, diplomacy, while towards the player through the ranks of Lieutanent about Captain, Commander, Admiral until finally ascends to the fleet Admiral, giving him full control over all game features. Overall, Imperium Galactica combines the elements of a 2D space combat in real time ( with the possibility of Zeiteinfrierens ) with building strategy in the colonial administration and with real-time battles on the ground, which is almost unique in this connection.

Open -IG

Open -IG is an open source reimplementation in Java, hosted on Google Code. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and all platforms with a Java VM. A copy of Imperium Galactica is not needed.