Overview Starscape is a space shooter with strategic elements. The game was developed by, who released the game as on March 27, 2003.
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The game saw a full release on June 29, 2004. Story A space station named The Aegis begins an experiment to test the dimension drive, their new warp system. The dimension drive malfunctions during the experiment, sending The Aegis to an alternate dimension known as the Grid, where most of its crew is killed by an evil alien race.
As the last remaining fighter pilot, the player must reconnect with the missing crew members, research and implement enhancements for The Aegis, fend off alien attacks, gather minerals from asteroids, and find the missing pieces of the dimension drive to escape the Grid dimension. Gameplay Starscape is a 2D space shooter that is played from the overhead perspective. The player initiates encounters by traveling to various star systems that are shown on the Aegis' map screen. Iexpress 2.0 Software. The player starts each encounter by choosing which ship they will use from the ship select screen.
The player exits The Aegis once they have chosen their ship. If the player dies while in combat, they will respawn at the ship select screen. The ships’ movement speed is dependent on momentum, meaning that they slowly pick up speed and cannot stop on a dime. While in an encounter, the player’s main focus is protecting The Aegis from enemies. The Aegis is outfitted with upgradable turrets that automatically shoot any enemies within range, so it can protect itself, but it is fragile, and if it is destroyed the game is over. The player’s other main focus is to collect that are housed inside asteroids.
The asteroids function very similarly to the ones in: when the player destroys an asteroid, it splits into two smaller ones; that process repeats until the asteroid is completely destroyed. When the player destroys an asteroid, it is quite likely that one of three resource types will come out of the debris. To collect those resources, the player uses their to suck them into their ship. The player’s storage capacity is limited, so they must deposit the resources into The Aegis to collect more. To deposit resources, the player must renter The Aegis, which will completely empty their storage (The Aegis may also be reentered to change the player’s ship or exit the area). These resources are used to repair The Aegis and fighter ships, research upgrades, and construct objects (ships, turrets, weapons, etc.).
System Requirements • Supported OS: Windows • Processor: Pentium II 300 MHz or higher • Memory: 128Mb or more free system memory • Hard disk space: 100Mb • DirectX version: DirectX 8 or higher • Video: Any Hardware 3D graphics accelerator with 32Mb or more of onboard memory • Sound: Any DirectSound compatible soundcard • Controller: Any Direct compatible pad.
Contents • • • • • • Plot [ ] The game is set in the 23rd century, and starts with the crew of an exploration vessel called the Aegis testing a new machine called a dimensional drive. The experiment, however, goes horribly wrong because a malevolent bio-mechanical race called the Archnid somehow tampered with the machine, resulting in the Aegis and its crew being sent into another dimension. The pilot of a small ship that was on the Aegis (controlled the player) meets up with the ship.
At this point, it's revealed that the Aegis was attacked by the Archnid, heavily damaged, and the dimension drive has been stolen. The player must then mine resources to repair the Aegis, their own ship, and recover the dimension drive, which the Archnid broke into five pieces, hoping to reverse engineer the technology and use it to escape. Though optional, the player can do some side quests with a race of machines called the Xenarch. After completing missions for them, they Xenarch will gradually reveal information about themselves and the Archnid. The Xenarch reveal that, the Archnid were once an organic race that was trapped in the dimension. Realizing they would die because they couldn't escape, most of them fused with machines to become immortal, leading to insanity. The Xenarch were created by the few that didn't fused with the machine to kill the Archnid, but the Xenarch failed in their task.
Doing this reveals to the crew of the Aegis how dangerous the Archnid are, and further motivates them to get the pieces of their dimension drive so they can make sure the Archnid cannot threaten the normal universe. The default character name of 'Jameson' is taken from the game. [ ] Gameplay [ ] Most of the game time is spent in a top-down view as the player's ship fights off attackers and collects resources from asteroids and from some of the destroyed enemy vessels. The setting is divided into areas of varying sizes, and the fighter can freely maneuver in one but not cross the boundaries. While in essence quite simple, the addition of the space station enriches gameplay considerably. The Aegis is present in all non- battles and while it's quite durable, its destruction loses the game. Docking with it is necessary to unload resources, perform repairs on either the ship or the station and to travel between areas.