Deuteros
| Deuteros | |
|---|---|
| Studio | Activision |
| Publisher | Activision |
| Senior Developer | Ian Bird |
| composer | Matt Bates |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1991 |
| platform | Amiga , Atari ST |
| genre | Computer strategy game |
| Subject | SciFi, resources |
| Game mode | Single player |
| control | mouse |
| medium | Floppy disks |
| language | German English French |
Deuteros: The Next Millennium is the successor to the strategy game Millennium 2.2 . The game was released in 1991 by Activision for the Amiga and Atari ST . Ian Bird designed and written the game, with graphics by Jai Redman and music by Matt Bates.
overview
The game starts about 800 years after the Millennium, at a time when mankind made the earth habitable again, but knowledge of space travel has been lost. At the beginning you only have the resources of the earth and a few simple construction options.
While the game takes up the topics of resource management and SciFi from its predecessor, as well as some elements of the interface, it is structured very differently.
The primary aim is to mine and manage resources, to explore and colonize the solar system and more distant star systems. You can train three different types of teams to do this: producers, researchers, and marines (who function as pilots). The longer you have your teams in action, the better their skills and characteristics become.
The player has to take care of most of the transportation of resources between the planets and factories with spaceships and shuttles. As the game progresses, new technologies replace and improve this process.
In the outer regions of the solar system, the player soon meets the Methanoids, a human race from the first game. After building the sixth space factory, the Methanoids declare war and the player must defeat them with the help of newly invented combat drones. During the war one can gradually acquire the more advanced technology of the methanoids, such as teleporters .
As soon as you have defeated the methanoids in your own solar system, you discover a mysterious alien artifact which is part of a mysterious machine. At this point the player also gets access to an interstellar drive of the Methanoids, which extends the radius of action to all neighboring star systems.
To win the game you have to conquer 8 solar systems and find 8 parts of the mysterious machine.
Reviews
Deuteros received some excellent reviews in English-language magazines. Amiga Format gave 95%, Amiga Power 89%, CU Amiga 70% and Zero gave 92%. In German magazines it did not do so well. The Amiga Joker rated z. B. only with 71%.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deuteros ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on TheLegacy
- ↑ http://www.kultboy.com/testbericht-uebersicht/864/
