![]() ![]() Starsector (to an extent the game shares a lot of DNA with Star Control II as well). ![]() Several Spiritual Successor games have been produced by fans of the original, including: Override however has a Kickstarter to republish the game as of April 2020, under the title "Cosmic Frontier: Override". Regrettably, all the the Escape Velocity titles are now Abandon Ware, due to the closure of Ambrosia in 2019. These include The Federation from Earth (and their B.o.I.I.), the enslaved Vell-os, the Auroran Empire, and the advanced Polaris. Taking the Absent Aliens of the first game's setting even further, the different “races” are the result of numerous human diaspora, all of which dislike each other with varying fervor. Escape Velocity: Nova (2002) - The last game made.Curious players are likely to discover the advanced Crescent aliens, consisting of the peacefully aloof Miranu and the bitterly warring Strand polities. Naturally, the two sides are locked in a bloody stalemate. Humanity (United Earth ) is fighting against an evil alien race (the Voinians). Escape Velocity: Override (1998) - The middle one.They are locked in a bloody stalemate throughout the game. After humanity beat back galactic invaders and destroyed them, the planets closer to Earth ( The Confederation) began pushing the outer systems around, causing them to rebel ( The Rebellion). Escape Velocity (1996) - The original.Since the third game is the only one still updated, the publisher has released free Total Conversion plug-ins containing the scenarios from the first two games. While the first game required the player to pick one side or the other in the ongoing galactic conflict, later games introduced more complex politics. In each, you start with nothing more than a simple shuttlecraft and are free to more or less do what you want. Though being part of the same series, the games are not connected by any sort of overarching plot, very much like Final Fantasy. A series of three open-ended sci-fi shareware computer games from 1996 to 2002, published by Ambrosia Software for the Macintosh (though the last is also available for Windows).
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