Gaming News - June 2004
Livonia, MI (June 3, 2004) - Stardock Entertainment, announced that
its expansion pack for the award winning strategy game, Galactic Civilizations
has gone gold.
From Stardock:
Altarian Prophecy, has been in development and testing for some months to get
all the features and enhancements put together just right.
“Our goal with this expansion pack was not just to add new content to Galactic
Civilizations but add in the kinds of features and tools that would give the
game, as a whole, a new lease on replayability,” said Brad Wardell, Designer of
Galactic Civilizations at Stardock. “What we wanted to do is ensure that the
game had a long term lifespan by enabling the fans of the game themselves to
extend the game on their own. That said, we also wanted to add in a host of new
features and content that had been asked for by players.”
Galactic Civilizations: Altarian Prophecy provides these additions:
· Two new major alien civilizations with their own artificial intelligence
engines.
· A new campaign called “The Altarian Prophecy” that explores the history of one
of the major alien civilizations.
· A Map editor that allows players to design their own custom maps. Previously
Galactic Civilizations used randomly generated maps each game. Now players will
be able to load maps and create their own.
· A scenario editor that enables players to create specific game environments.
For example, players can create scenarios that begin the game with players on
teams. Previously, Galactic Civilizations only supported “free for all” starts.
The scenario editor also allows players to tweak the various game rules and
settings, triggers to generate custom winning conditions, and much more.
· A Campaign editor allows users to create a set of games that are linked
together to tell a story. “The Altarian Prophecy” is the included campaign that
takes players deep into the Galactic Civilizations mythos to give the back story
about the alien civilization, Altarian Republic.
· Dozens of new technologies, ships, planetary improvements, game tweaks, game
setup options, and more.
All in all, the expansion pack will include hundreds of new features and
improvements that will enable players to extend their game playing enjoyment of
Galactic Civilizations.
Galactic Civilizations was released in March 2003 and has won several Editor’s
Choice Awards including ones from Computer Gaming World and Computer Games
Magazine. It has been recommended as a top turn based strategy by PC Gamer,
Gamespot, Gamespy, Games Domain, amongst others.
Galactic Civilizations is available at most retail outlets and is also available
directly from GalCiv.com for $39.95. The expansion pack, Galactic Civilizations:
Altarian Prophecy, will be released on June 15, 2004 and can be purchased on CD
or via electronic download. A retail version of the game should be available
later this summer along with a bundle of the original game and the expansion
pack to be titled “Galactic Civilizations Gold”.
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