Sword of the Stars adds a couple of extra Xs to the traditional 4X grand strategy formula. The familiar explore, expand, exploit and exterminate are joined by their ugly siblings excruciating and extended-periods-of -crashing, making for a misjudged and painful sojourn in this poorly served genre.
With no tutorials and only the most basic tooltip screens, you’re thrown into a star system to do battle with a fragmented and bemusing interface, and if you’re lucky, accidentally conquer a few alien races along the way. You have a handful of planets in the corner of the system, and use each turn to scout and colonise new worlds, fill your empire’s coffers and fund your next wave of battleships. As your influence spreads, you can do business with the other races, befriending them with diplomacy or obliterating them with lasers and orbital bombardments.
MINIMUM
Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium III or AMD Athlon 800MHz Processor
256MB RAM
2GB Hard Disk Space
Nvidia TNT2, GeForce 1, 2 or 3, ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500 or 8500, or Matrox G450 Video Card
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
DirectX 9
MAXIMUM
Windows 7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)
Intel i7 Quad Core 2.8Ghz or AMD equivalent
3GB System RAM (High)
30 GB Hard dDisk Space
nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD4850 Video Card
Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live
DirectX 9.0 - DirectX 11
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