Imperium Galactica

Imperium Galactica
Studio	Digital reality
Publisher	GT Interactive
Erstveröffent- lichung	March 1997
platform	PC ( MS-DOS , Windows 95 )
genre	Real time strategy game
Game mode	Single player
control	Mouse , keyboard
system advantages preconditions	CPU : 100 MHz; RAM : 16 MB; HDD : 65 MB; Graphics :? MB RAM
medium	1 CD-ROM
language	German
Age rating	USK

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

action

The terrestrial galactic empire is on the brink of collapse, especially the war with the species of Garthogs is wearing it down. At this point, a young, promising commander appears in the sector around the planets Achilles, Naxos and San Sterling and takes care of order. Due to increasing skills, the commander has to slowly but steadily face an ever larger galaxy until he finally has to try to unite the galaxy in order to withstand the invasion of an extra-galactic species, the Dargslan.

description

Imperium Galactica is a single player real time strategy game. Even if it is a real-time game, it is classified as a 4X game (eXpand, eXploit, eXplore, eXterminate) as it was Master of Orion . Initially, the player only has a small spaceship with three escorts under his command. This allows the player to carry out simple missions while building three space colonies. A special order is necessary for his promotion to captain. After the promotion (Chapter 2), smaller ships can also be produced in the now 4 space colonies, the command ship is also somewhat more powerful. Again, there is a critical mission that is necessary for the promotion. After being promoted to Commander, you receive a flagship and the ability to research and produce orbital stations. At this point, you are in permanent war with a neighboring race called the Garthogg. With the extinction of the Garthogg you are promoted to admiral who has the resources of all colonies and has many areas to explore. You are constantly harassed by foreign peoples, but you can also found new colonies. As a Grand Admiral, you also have the option of conducting diplomatic negotiations.

The story serves as an entry point, it gradually introduces new game concepts and applies them - planet management, space battles, ground battles, research, component & ship production, diplomacy while the player moves through the ranks from Lieutenant to Captain, Commander, Admiral and finally becomes Fleet Admiral, which gives him full control over all game functions. Overall, Imperium Galactica combines the elements of a 2D space battle in real time (with the option of freezing time) 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 that is 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 required.

Web links

• Digital Reality - the developers of the Imperium Galactica series
• Imperium Galactica at Moby Games
• Open IG on Google Code

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Yee: Nexus 2 Interview ( English ) kickstarter-conversations.com. October 10, 2012. Retrieved July 26, 2013: “ Nexus had a long history already before it was published. The game was developed by Mithis, a Hungarian games development studio in Budapest. They had signed the game at the time with German publisher CDV. CDV decided that they wanted a license for the game and they acquired the license for Imperium Galactica. So, the game we know as Nexus would have been Imperium Galactica 3 as far as CDV was concerned. "