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Galaxy Andromeda

"Galaxy Andromeda is a story-based single player strategy game. Starting in 2040, you are in control..."

Publisher: CDV
Developer: Philos Labs
Released: 01 Jan 1970
Genre Sport
Platform

Galaxy Andromeda is a story-based single player strategy game. Starting in 2040, you are in control of the fleet of a multinational cooperation fighting a rivalling cooperation. The discovery of foreign technology leads to expeditions into space. When you return to Earth you find it occupied by Aliens. Only one colonizing spaceship with humans escaped. Your task is to find this ship, use it to build colonies and to finally gather enough strength to take back Earth.
For the player there are mainly two challenges:

1. Master the tactical skills to win the 3D real-time space battles by controlling your fleet via a tactical interface.

2. Master the strategic skills of building and managing by distributing resources, researching technology and building and equipping spaceships.

Features

  • One large campaign with at least 6 parallel storylines besides the main story.
  • At least 10 story missions and at least 25 random missions.
  • 100 planets in 20 solar systems.
  • At least five different alien races.
  • Modular spaceships: Construct your own units
  • Classical sci-fi feeling
  • Sophisticated story-line
  • First-person strategy
  • Detailed and exciting space battles
  • Severe but realistic background strategy
  • A new concept in research and development
  • Highly configurable unique spaceships and colonies
  • 6 alien races driven by different AI-s
  • 30 alien spacecrafts
  • Over 50 types of weapons and devices
  • Over 50 NPC-s
  • A new 3D engine with never-before-seen features

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