In September 2003, Battlecruiser Generations, the fifth title in the acclaimed Battlecruiser series, was rebranded as Universal Combat in the interest of a more accessible action oriented approach for this fourteen year old genre spanning series which has grown beyond its typical space sim roots. The "Battlecruiser Powered" Universal Combat game focuses on action based gameplay while maintaining all advanced and exciting elements of our products before it. A lot of work went into this new direction and one which will cater both to the avid Battlecruiser fan as well as the casual action gamer looking for an exciting experience in such an advanced world. Features: Below are highlights of the most important of over fifty or more new or enhanced features. · NEW! Overhauled graphics engine with DirectX 9 support! · NEW! Graphics engine with various shader enhancements · NEW! Terrain PTE-III engine with vegetation, wild/sea life etc · NEW! Flight dynamics engine with mouse flight controls · NEW! Skeleton based character animation engine · NEW! Space/planetary and vehicular dynamics engine · NEW! Revised and even more sophisticated AI kernel · NEW! Stereo soundfx and fourteen new song tracks · NEW! Interface and action focused control revisions · NEW! High polygon count 3D assets · NEW! Space stations & starbase classes · NEW! Recon, Assault, Engineer and Medic marine classes · NEW! 22 first weapon weapons plus other items · NEW! 28 character models + over 1500 animation frames · NEW! 04 new careers for a total of 09 playable careers · NEW! 22 driveable vehicles · NEW! 12 controllable threat (e.g. SAM) units · NEW! 10 controllable naval units (ships, subs, LCACs etc) · NEW! 05 flyable planetary gunships · NEW! 54 flyable space crafts (fighters, carriers, cruisers etc) · NEW! 64 player multiplay support · NEW! 25 mission Advanced Campaign scenario · NEW! 15 Instant Action scenarios · NEW! GBS-III mission builder System Requirements: Minimum Requirements · WIN 98SE/ME/2K/XP (with all service packs) · DirectX 9 or higher · Pentium III 1Ghz or equivalent AMD processor · 128MB RAM · 32MB DirectX 8.1 compliant graphics card with vertex shader 1.1 · DirectX 8 compliant sound card · 8X CDROM or DVD-ROM · 1GB uncompressed hard drive disk space · Mouse Recommended Requirements · WIN 2K/XP (with all service packs) · Pentium IV 1.7Ghz or equivalent AMD processor · 256MB RAM · 64MB DirectX 8.1 compliant graphics card with vertex shader 1.1 & pixel shader 1.1 or higher · Joystick Ultimate Requirements · WIN 2K/XP (with all service packs) · Pentium IV 3Ghz or equivalent AMD processor · 512MB RAM · 128MB DirectX 9 compliant graphics card with vertex shader 2.0 & pixel shader 2.0 · Joystick Multiplayer Requirements · Client requires 56K or broadband modem · Server requires LAN or broadband (cable, DSL etc) connection Genre · Space Sim Strategy RPG

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