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Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection
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Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection includes the original Sword of the Stars game and the three expansions: Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows, and Argos Naval Yard
It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light. But tragedy strikes, as Earth is ravaged by an alien force. The dawning of a new era was stymied by a grim, new reality...
Sword of the Stars:
- 4 distinct races - Human, Hiver, Tarkas and Liir
- A powerful state of the art engine delivers breathtaking graphics and robust game play
- Each race has a unique mode of transport between star systems, creating very different styles of play
- Over 150 distinct technologies to research on a dynamic tech tree
- Over 40 weapons from six different weapon classes
- Players can design and build ships from three size classes - Destroyer, Cruiser, and Dreadnought
- Choose from a variety of scenario campaigns to play alone or with friends
Born of Blood:
- Play as the merciless Zuul Slavers with over 90 brand-new ship sections and their unique drive system – the Tunnel Drive
- Over 25 additional technologies
- 15 more weapons you can add to your ship designs
- New ship sections for the original four races, including: War, Projector, Boarding, and a new type of defense satellite – the Torpedo Defense Platform
- 4 additional galactic encounters, a new grand menace, plus 3 unique scenarios and 6 original maps
- New game features, including Slavery, Trade Routes, and Diplomatic Communications
A Murder of Crows:
- A New Sixth race – The Morrigi
- New Ship Sections - Over a dozen new ship sections
- Unique ‘Grav Flock’ Drive System for Morrigi
- 15 new weapons
- 27 new technologies and the new Xeno-Cultural and Drones tech tree
- Drone carrying ships in all three size classes
- Construction ships, a variety of orbital stations, spy ships, police cutters, and more
- A whole new set of GUI enhancements and additions
Argos Naval Yard:
- 19 new technologies
- Over 75 new ship section to build
- 10 new weapons / 3 New Scenarios
- Single Player / Multi-player with co-op scenario maps
It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light. But tragedy strikes, as Earth is ravaged by an alien force. The dawning of a new era was stymied by a grim, new reality...
Sword of the Stars:
- 4 distinct races - Human, Hiver, Tarkas and Liir
- A powerful state of the art engine delivers breathtaking graphics and robust game play
- Each race has a unique mode of transport between star systems, creating very different styles of play
- Over 150 distinct technologies to research on a dynamic tech tree
- Over 40 weapons from six different weapon classes
- Players can design and build ships from three size classes - Destroyer, Cruiser, and Dreadnought
- Choose from a variety of scenario campaigns to play alone or with friends
Born of Blood:
- Play as the merciless Zuul Slavers with over 90 brand-new ship sections and their unique drive system – the Tunnel Drive
- Over 25 additional technologies
- 15 more weapons you can add to your ship designs
- New ship sections for the original four races, including: War, Projector, Boarding, and a new type of defense satellite – the Torpedo Defense Platform
- 4 additional galactic encounters, a new grand menace, plus 3 unique scenarios and 6 original maps
- New game features, including Slavery, Trade Routes, and Diplomatic Communications
A Murder of Crows:
- A New Sixth race – The Morrigi
- New Ship Sections - Over a dozen new ship sections
- Unique ‘Grav Flock’ Drive System for Morrigi
- 15 new weapons
- 27 new technologies and the new Xeno-Cultural and Drones tech tree
- Drone carrying ships in all three size classes
- Construction ships, a variety of orbital stations, spy ships, police cutters, and more
- A whole new set of GUI enhancements and additions
Argos Naval Yard:
- 19 new technologies
- Over 75 new ship section to build
- 10 new weapons / 3 New Scenarios
- Single Player / Multi-player with co-op scenario maps
Sword of the Stars © Kerberos Productions Inc 2006. All rights reserved. This product contains software technology licensed from GameSpy Industries, Inc. © 1999-2009 GameSpy Industries, Inc. GameSpy and the "Powered by GameSpy" design are trademarks of GameSpy Industries, Inc. All rights reserved. Uses Bink Video, © 1997-2006 by RAK Game Tools, Inc.
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Posted on: March 10, 2016
Strijkbout
Games: 720 Reviews: 24
Collection of bad ideas.
I have this game on Steam and I can say I don't like it at all. Sword of the Stars touts itself as being a 4x game, maybe it is but exploration and planetary management are really simplistic here. This game is only about doing key research and then design and build the best tech ships. Why make only best tech ships? Well... for the following reason, you can only have 5 ships in battle at each time and the battles only last for a couple of minutes so it can fit as RTS in a TBS universe, a reason which I felt completely arbitrary. The rest of the ships you brought will only warp in as reinforcements when one of your ships gets destroyed but because of the slow manuevering they will be easy pickings for any superior enemy. All this means it will be nigh impossible to overcome stronger ships even though in real life you would be able to overwhelm them with lowtech ships where your accumulated firepower will be much higher than of the hightech enemies. The RTS part is simplistic too and manuevering the ships take way too long, especially considering the timelimited battles. The gamedesigners clearly have some sort of favouritism about what the best way to play should be, which is: waste an insane amount of time figuring out the best techcombinations and then take out the enemies with the biggest and best ships possible because of the 5 ship caplimit. This might not be a problem for certain players, but for me to play a strategic game where you are held back in doing thing because of a shipcap and a timelimit is no fun. As for the good things I can say about this game, the music is quite good, done by the same guy that did the music in Homeworld.
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Posted on: March 11, 2016
jcchains
Verified ownerGames: 77 Reviews: 3
Awesome 4X game!
I'm a huge Master Of Orion fan so I was wondering how well SOTS would play. It's very well made and I like the art and feel of the game. It's so worth the lower price GOG has right now. I would buy it at full price and be happy. The game is awesome!
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Posted on: May 4, 2019
chrisvanmeeteren
Verified ownerGames: 97 Reviews: 6
Worst game ever!
Nothing much happening while you do research and have almost no options to manage you "empire". Meaningless battles without any strategy yet sometimes nice to look at. From time to time someone meaningless attacks you meaningless planets. That is pretty much about it. I regret spending the 2 bucks on it as sad as it may sound.
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