Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire

[SpookyZalost 39]

anyone still play or maybe have played in the past this gem from the creator of Civilization?

 

It's an awesome Civilization like game, but on another planet around our nearest star Alpha Centauri, The game Picks up where those of us who beat Civilization with the Space Colonization victory left off.

basically the United Nations Starship Unity, on it's way to alpha centauri suffers a problem mid flight, and ends up dispersing escape pods across a habbitable planet in orbit of Alpha Centauri A.

now you must take control of one of the factions on planet and ensure that humanity survives against both it's self and the hostile life on planet.

it's great beacuse it's like Civ 2 and civ 3 (basically Civ 2.5) but with a sci-fi/futuristic tech tree, and the best part? Loki Games actually ported it to LINUX! though these days copies are hard to find heh, managed to get my self a copy though for around $50 ouch

on the up side after a bit of tweaking and updating I got it to work on my linux box, works best in light weight systems like crunch bang due to them having older daemons and such for compatibility with older hardware, that and the lack of use of compositing, works great on my old linux laptop/terminal down in the comp lab, also works in windows, with updates and patches of course, I reccomend to anyone who likes civilization.

[_marsh_ 1,117]

Never heard of this game before. Watching gameplay footage I might actually give it a try, it looks very fun.

I actually like the thought of civilization on another planet. I hate playing on something with real world civilizations because it's not very imersive. Oh hey, the Myans actually started their world in Japan, next door to the Spanish... Or even on random maps. It doesn't feel right. This on the other hand... I think I can get into

[T Wrecks 10,209]

This is a funny coincidence. I've heard the name of the game before, but have never played it. However, recently I started watching a "Let's Play" series of it, and it sure looks interesting!

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Finally! A thread dedicated to the greatest turn-based strategy game ever! Heck I love it so much my signature is one of the quotes from the game!

 

 

This is a funny coincidence. I've heard the name of the game before, but have never played it. However, recently I started watching a "Let's Play" series of it, and it sure looks interesting!

 

SMAC is the king of gaming addiction and aside from the old graphics you just get sucked in to this world; planet as they call it or Chiron. Set in the future (2100AD) you pick one of seven human factions, who are divided strictly on ideology, make planetfall on this alien world and try to rebuild humanity (Earth has descended into anarchy, decline and dark ages), or more like your faction's vision for humanity.

 

Along the way you research futuristic technologies, terraform the planet to support your faction's economy, fight the mindworms -- the planet's native life and brutal little beasties these things are -- find the other factions and their leaders. Wars are fought for power, land grabs, clash of ideologies and all sorts of reasons. As you research more technologies you start to gain unprecedented control over planet, while you can customize each and everyone of your units in the workshop editor.

 

You guard your faction with infantry, speedrovers, hovertanks, needlejets, copters, gravships, foilships, naval boats, missiles and planet busters. You can commit atrocities like using planet busters, using nerve gas, nerve stapling your population, introducing retroviruses and all sorts. There are secret projects to build which give you special bonuses, abilities and advantages. You conduct social engineering to pick the politics, economics and values most suitable to your preferences.

 

Finally you win by either cornering the global energy market, diplomatic victory via the planetary council, conquest victory or be the first faction to complete the Ascent to Transcendence project and lead humanity into a new era, where humans evolve and their consciousness is stripped from their bodies and into this massive neural net generated by a planet that becomes sentient (THIS is not a joke!), though this is a voluntary choice.

 

You will lose months playing this game and remember never leave! The drones need you, they look to you!

[Benedict 3,119]

Sounds fantastic - right up my street.

[_marsh_ 1,117]

Well I founf it for 5 bucks on amazon, but many state it may not run on W7. Which means it probably won't run on W7. Guess Ill have to wait untill I find a new pc, which I plan on installing xp on when i get it. (since it will probably be w8)

[ErictheDredd 0]

It was an excellent game.  I've beaten it many times with several different factions - and on high levels of AI difficulty.  My favorites are the Gaians.  They may look weak on paper, but they are actually one of the strongest due to their other bonuses and abilities with capturing native life, and one can always make military upgrades and secret projects to stregthen them militarily. 

[SpookyZalost 39]

you know my favorite faction is actually from alien crossfire, I think the data angels are freaking awesome! a whole faction of hackers and cyberpunks heh

asside from that I have to say the pirates, and Zarkov are my other 2 favorite factions.

I don't know I never could get into the super capitalism or that crazy Yang heh and in this case playing as aliens doesn't leave one with as much of a fun feeling after wiping out those pesky humans heh.