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Pax Imperia - Eminent Domain

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4.1/5

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4.1

42 Reviews

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Pax Imperia - Eminent Domain
Description
Your universe is as vast as you deem it to be. Explore and colonize hundreds of inhabitable worlds in one of the largest game universes ever created. No two games will ever be the same! Once colonies are established, they can either be left alone or carefully managed. To excel in this gigantic real...
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4.1/5

( 42 Reviews )

4.1

42 Reviews

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Product details
1997, Heliotrope Studios, ESRB Rating: Everyone...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with...
Time to beat
15.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
-- Completionist
15.5 h All Styles
Description
Your universe is as vast as you deem it to be. Explore and colonize hundreds of inhabitable worlds in one of the largest game universes ever created. No two games will ever be the same!

Once colonies are established, they can either be left alone or carefully managed. To excel in this gigantic real-time environment you will have to juggle economics, research and develop hundreds of technologies, build your planet's assets, and establish solid domestic and foreign relations. Your trusted advisors will assist you, but the fate of your people lies with you, and you alone.

With the ability to create your own species, or to use one of the game's pre-designed aliens, contact will always be eventful. Intentions will be unknown…treaties made and broken…trust won and lost.

Occasionally fellow emperors just will not listen to reason. Research, design, and deploy massive armadas. Take control of a revolutionary in-game combat engine and wage battle across your universe. Soon, there will be no question as to whose universe it is!
  • Explore and colonize hundreds of inhabitable worlds for infinite replayability
  • Research and develop over 360 technologies
  • Manage the development of your planets' precious resources
  • Forge strategic alliances and treaties with other empires
  • Subvert and undermine your enemies
  • Create a species suitable to your needs
  • Crush all resistance using Pax's revolutionary combat engine
  • Go head-to-head: 16 computer or human opponents battle over LAN
Goodies
manual soundtrack (MP3)
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:

NOTICE: Due to compatibility issues with Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10, the intro and outro movies will not be displayed. The movies are available within the game's files.

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

NOTICE: Due to compatibility issues with Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10, the intro and outro movies will not be displayed. The movies are available within the game's files.

Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
15.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
-- Completionist
15.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'1997-10-01T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
519 MB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Everyone (Animated Violence)

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Posted on: July 22, 2015

dennisdebijl

Verified owner

Games: 13 Reviews: 1

Good ol PAX :-)

This was the first game i ever bought. Bought it when i didnt even had a pc back then, and dreamt of playing this. Good old 4x game. Once in a while its nostalgic to jump back into this :-) You wont be playing this nonstop but once in a while its worth the grinding to achieve victory ;-) One side note though, i also own the original as i just mentioned, but whenever you colonize or meet a new race or have victory it should autoplay the cinematic video. For some reason it does not do this, but the movies are present in the fold. Else 5 stars :-)


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Posted on: September 27, 2015

NC37

Verified owner

Games: 88 Reviews: 1

A real classic gem

Everyone likes to talk about Master of Orion 2. How popular and great it was. But very few remember Pax. Why? It wasn't because it was a bad game. Frankly it was a very good game but MOO2 surpassed it mostly because Pax did not have the marketing muscle that MOO2 had. They both launched around the same time and MOO2 just dominated due to an onslaught of press. Yet when I've talked to most people over the years who had played both games, just about all of them liked Pax better. When you pit MOO2 and Pax head to head it was clear why. First off, Pax was graphically better. It was detail levels higher than just about anything that launched at the time. Pax also had one of the best, and still best, ship designers in a 4X. Even today I'll play Gal Civ III or Endless Space and think...man if this game only had Pax's ship designer.... The only area MOO2 really surpassed Pax was involving the micro management. Pax is much more simplified. You spend more time conquering and making unstoppable armadas in Pax than you do managing your planets. Perhaps people liked this more at the time as MOO2 was more like Civilization and the like which were all about micro management. Modern gamers playing this game...yes the game literally gets repetitive once you research everything. But then so does every 4X. I've not found a 4X title that doesn't get some degree of dull once you've advanced all the way. That isn't to say there isn't an endgame. But that the battles shift from being more tech based to managing fleet compositions and movements during combat. In fact Pax was very much ahead of it's time in this regard in allowing you full control over your armada during a battle. Modern titles still don't do this. Endless Space is fantastic but it has an on the rails battle system. In many ways it would be wonderful if someone picked up Pax and did a remake for this era. What other 4X lets you do espionage as well as Pax? None. Modern devs need to learn from Pax, not forget it.


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Posted on: July 9, 2015

geojock

Games: 31 Reviews: 2

"All Crews to Battle Stations"

Revisited this game after years of not playing and glad a did. Just as fun as when I bought it new. As with most all GOG I play, I'm not sure if i can review it objectively, because I never know if its just nostalgia talking. It could use a little depth here and there, but it makes it easy to pick up and get stuck in. Minesweepers are you friends.


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Posted on: July 15, 2015

jaffa81

Verified owner

Games: 159 Reviews: 8

Why I bought this game

Why I bought this game? Because just 3 hour ago, I was driving in my car, talking to my best friend over the phone. We where talking about games that we wanted to play. I mentioned Pax Imperia and told him how sorry I was the CD was broken. Then I come home, sees Pax Imperia on GOG. Insta buy. I love it.


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Posted on: February 27, 2018

KajQrd

Verified owner

Games: 2923 Reviews: 8

Historically interesting game

Pax Imperia is historically interesting for being a very early real time 4x game. If you are going for the best game I'd say Sins of a Solar Empire is in almost every way a superior game. But for $6 you are getting a bit of PC history (somewhat more a part of Mac history) and it is a good game. It just requires a lot more effort on your part than the newer games.


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