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Most important is the tech tree, which shows a complete system of all technologies available in the game, along with prerequisite technologies and all benefits the technology gives (new chassis, weapon, armor, reactor, or special ability types, along with new terraformer abilities, base facilities and secret projects, bonuses to xenofungus squares, social engineering choices, etc.) In all technology trades the game allows you to consult the Datalinks to find exactly what is being offered (or demanded). The Datalinks, similar to Civilization's Civilopedia, contain information crucial to playing the game. The player can choose to work toward a victory based on diplomacy, economics, conquest, or transcendence. Unlike Civilization I and Civilization III, Alpha Centauri allows the player to fully customize units.Īlpha Centauri is open-ended and has multiple, customizable parameters for victory. Scientific discoveries within the game determine what technologies are available to particular factions, which in turn determines what facilities and units they can build at their colony bases.

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Players engage themselves in a race against the other factions, and are free to adopt any number of strategies in pursuit of their goal. Within the game, the player assumes the role of one of the seven distinctly different faction leaders and attempts to expand their colony and achieve victory.

After the colony pods land, the player comes in to take control and aid their faction to victory over the others.Īlpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire screenshot (The game's video introduction depicts an eighth escape pod separating from the Unity, only to explode shortly thereafter.) Unity breaks up in high orbit, supplies, components, and factions spread everywhere.

Seven leaders take up the challenge of leading a faction onto Planet by use of colony pods. When news of the assassination spread, the crew panics, the ship beginning to break apart due to mishandling. The rest of the crew is awakened soon after. Before they are done, however, the captain of Unity, Garland, is assassinated by an unknown assailant. However, before the starship fully reaches Planet, forty years into the journey, the Unity suffers a core malfunction, awakening many of the crew, who then proceed to fix the malfunction.

This planet, named 'Chiron' (but often just called 'Planet') is very similar to Earth. The Unity is destined for a planet in the Alpha Centauri system. launches an enormous colonization starship called Unity. THQ's deal with Gamergate indicates that it may become available through their service, but at this time independent retailers and piracy are the only source of the game.Īccording to the storyline of the game, humanity is destroying itself through war, famine, pollution, and poverty, but before it can complete self-destruction, the U.N. The game is no longer available via Sold Out Software, and Gametap has also dropped the game.

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The game has also been released under the Sold-Out Software label. Pre-patched versions of Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire were later bundled together in the Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack. Although popular with gamers, the game never reached the heights of success of the Civilization games. An expansion pack called Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire (aka SMACX or just SMAX) was also released. It picks up where Meier and Reynolds' earlier titles, Civilization I and Civilization II, left off. It is based on a fictional attempt by human beings to colonize a planet in the Alpha Centauri star system. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (sometimes abbreviated to SMAC or Alpha Centauri) is a 4X turn-based strategic computer game created by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier under the auspices of Firaxis Games in 1999. Single player multiplayer (over IPX, TCP/IP or modem)

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