Space Rangers HD: A War Apart remasters and expands the world of the cult classic Space Rangers 2. The game is developed by the SNK-Games team in close cooperation with fans of the series.
The biggest of the improved features is a new scenario dedicated to the pirates threatening the galaxy. While...
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart remasters and expands the world of the cult classic Space Rangers 2. The game is developed by the SNK-Games team in close cooperation with fans of the series.
The biggest of the improved features is a new scenario dedicated to the pirates threatening the galaxy. While the Coalition spends all of its resources to fight the Dominators (sentient machines who seek to eradicate all life), the pirates have united under the banner of a mysterious leader. Under this new master they have begun their own guerrilla war to seize power in the weakened Galaxy. Players can now choose with whom to deal, the Dominators or the pirates, or both at the same time. If you choose the latter path, you will receive new story and side quests, new goals and promotions. After winning one of the wars, you can either finish the game or continue playing to win another.
Players begin their pirate career as the lowest of the low, and will make their way to the top of the pirate hierarchy, completing story missions and learning new information about the organization and its unknown leader whose actions threaten the very existence of the Coalition of sentient species. All player actions affect what kind of place the Galaxy will be at the end, with the victorious Coalition that managed to overcome its enemies or with a collapsed alliance from both external Dominator and internal pirate pressures.
The game has received a major technical overhaul in addition to the addition of new content. All of the main menu, loading screens, planet and space station vistas were reworked. Now you can choose a display resolution of up to 1920×1200 and planetary battles employ modern render technologies.
New pirate subplot - After completing any one of the story branches a player can either end the game, or continue playing to complete another branch. the player’s actions influence the entire Galaxy, while the balance in either of wars may be tipped not only by the player, but by AI actions as well. No two playthroughs will be the same.
Major technical overhaul - Display resolutions up to 1920×1200, multi-core processors, Windows® 7, and anti-aliasing in 3D planetary battles are now fully supported.
Other improvements include more than 10 new text adventures, 15+ planetary battle maps, 20+ government missions, unique non-story events, new equipment and micromodules, access to all hyperspace engagements from the main menu and more!
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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A massive open ended Rogue Like space exploration game in which you control one of various races and navigate isometric star systems. You can be a trader, diplomat, scientist, pirate, or galactic hero. There are text adventures & RTS battles too.
Space battles, planet battles, written quests, trade simulator, pirate simulator + nice music in 1 game. Eve online in offline mode. (Space Rangers appeared before)
Oh those sweet summer days of 2008/09 the music and the atmosphere was perfect for a hot summer day spending it playing space rangers 2.
I dont have much time to play this as im an adult with a job now, but i started 2 playthroughs, one as me and one as pirate peleng, lmao. i really like the addition to the new expansion (i always wanted but didnt know how to buy online) you can actually decide how aggressive/effecte the dominators are, thats pretty amazing, man. Lots of characters and universes to explore now! I will forever play my old good classic games and this is one of em.
As someone who is new to the series, I enjoy many aspects of Space Rangers HD. Music is good, graphics are ok, character and ship variety is decent, and it has a massive trove of stuff to do. It's fun being part of a galaxy with acting AI for every aspect from ship captains to planet governors, all competing to improve their standings using the same rules as the player. Land based battles are cheesy due to some weapons significantly outperforming others and AI's having massive resource advantages, but they're still fun.
However, it's difficult to enjoy the game when it crashes every 40 minutes. The stability is poor and it's hard to have a good game with such frequent issues. Another big issue is that you have to either sacrifice yourself to the auto-battle gods or manually assign each weapon to a ship within range, but only when it is your turn. Enemies can change who they target with weapons on the fly, but you are trapped to wait a turn before you can change your targets. You can't even return fire if someone attacks you in the middle of your turn, so you're stuck taking shots without being able to do a thing about it. Early game this is devastating because you can lose a third of your ship's health before you even get a chance to shoot back at a pirate, and by then the battle is already lost.
Space Rangers HD is fun and worth the $4 sale price, but its issues will probably not be resolved anytime soon by the developers.
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