Hardwar (1998)
Genres:Simulator
Themes:Open world, Action, Science fiction, Sandbox
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:On the barren moon Titan, within the city of Misplaced Optimism, scavenger operators and ram-runners fight for the right to courier the last of Titan's worthless riches.
Caught between the powerplays of neo-feudal corporations and mutant underworld cartels, there is only one escape. Off-planet.
...You're going to need all the Hardwar(e) you can get.Show more
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Really great and little known open ended "space" sim with a focus on trading. The word they created in this game isn't huge, but is very alive and has a dynamic economy that kept me busy for hours and hours. The flying mechanics of the ships and ability to buy property and set up your own trade empire is really well done without being as overwhelming as the later X series games.
As I exit the hangar in my flimsy hovering vehicle, and I see the cloud layers, the fog, the constant lightning, I realize I stepped into a truly alien world. Rough, dangerous, but also beautiful in an eerie way.
Just a few inhabited craters on some remote corner of the Solar System. It might not seem like much, but it's actually a lot. The grim colony is brimming with activity. Commerce, manufacturing, extraction, shady deals, killings, intrigue, politics, secrets and survival.
Harsh life and quick unexpected death. You wouldn't want it any other way. Rushing to exploit the newest opportunity. Chilling to the metallic hum of the hangar. Escaping by the skin of your teeth. Rolling in dough. Putting your mark on the world.
Your world, really. Because by now, this horrid place has become your home sweet home. And you wouldn't want it any other way.
Steam has this now, but they did some trickery to get Red Book audio running. I am tempted to buy it on Steam to see what they did as they certainly won't be emulating the original audio CD's. They probably moved the audio to MP3 or OGG or some such compression and then somehow point the game from looking at the CD to looking at the compressed audio tracks. However, the game will not know how to play said tracks (probably at least) so there has to be some sort of middleman type app to handle this.
Great game. One of the best from the era with your whole mission is to escape the moon Titan that you are trapped on and get back to Earth. No one ever leaves Titan. You will find a way if anyone can though.
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FreelancerEight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival.
Life was hard in the beginning, but over the 800 years the different colonies prospered and expanded their territories, claiming more and more systems for their own. Survival and propagation eventually led to growth and profit as each of the colonies developed specialties and fostered commerce. As the colonies grew and time passed their connections with their roots on Earth dwindled and they lost their memories of the conflicts of the past. Soon their attention was dominated by new, more immediate conflicts. Feelings of lost ancestral connection spurred anachronism in the look of the great cities, and created a somewhat distorted image of each colony's cultural heritage. In the ever-expanding outer edge of the territories, frontier lawlessness prevailed.
The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo.
As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity.
Today, with each colony firmly rooted in its respective corner of the galaxy, the colonies rely heavily on each other for trade and industry but also compete for resources and new territories in the Border Worlds. The colonies mandate member governments in "The New Alliance" within the Sirius sector. To control conflicts, each colony has forged alliances and treaties with others as they have grown. Competition remains fierce, however. Struggles rage for supremacy in business, commerce, resources, power and control. There can be tenuous peace between colonies' political agendas, but the grabs for holdings constantly unsettle the volatile frontier.Our Pick Top Trending Science fiction Sandbox
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There was a vote deciding which player would be on the NHL 13 cover. Anybody could vote on the player(s) they wished to see on the cover of the game. The vote started on March 29, 2012 with 60 NHL players in a single-elimination voting with two players in each match-up, and was closed on June 4, receiving over 25 million votes worldwide.[5] On June 20, Claude Giroux was named the winner, over Pekka Rinne at the 2012 NHL Awards in Las Vegas.[6]
An exclusive "Stanley Cup Collector's Edition" was also released, apart from the actual NHL 13 game. The Collector's Edition includes five random Hockey Ultimate Team (HUT) player packs from the two 2012 Stanley Cup Finals teams; a Gold Jumbo HUT pack including legend Wayne Gretzky; and a boost pack featuring the CCM RBZ stick.[7]
Just like in NHL 12, Gary Thorne (play-by-play) and Bill Clement (color) provide commentary for NHL 13.[8]
This year, for the first time, two playable female characters, Hayley Wickenheiser and Angela Ruggiero have been added.[9] In NHL 12, users could create female characters, but there were no real-life players.[10]
On September 20, Gamesindustry.biz reported that NHL 13 had posted the best first week sales in the franchise's history.[11]Non-fiction
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Crusader Kings III is the medieval strategy role-playing experience that you have been waiting for.
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