By the middle of the 27th century Terrestrial Hegemony considerably expanded its borders and the Merchant Guild got practically unlimited power in everything related to the worlds within Perimeter. Legion that had been elite military unit and then turned into most dangerous organisation in the known part of the Universe, didn't prevent its warriors from participation in trade missions, being quite right in their opinion that none of the known to mankind races, not counting may be Tiglaary, can match them in combat. Many years of strict genetic control made absolute warriors and advanced nanotechnology allowed unlimited growth of their qualities. Because of that the presence of one or two Legionnaires in crew was quite enough for they had enough power to totally eliminate the population of a middle-sized planet. A merchant spaceship "Aspero" left Terra in 2944 A.D. The flight was coming to its end when "Aspero" was attacked near the destination planet by the spaceship belonging to some unknown race. Trying to prevent his spaceship capture by the power poles of the hostile spaceship, the captain of "Aspero" activated reserve engines but itwas too late. Having been taken aside from their course due to the battle both spaceships continued their movement as one body being combined by some huge powers and found themselves in an area that was marked by red colour of danger in all cosmological maps. That region had a very bad reputation; many spaceships that had coursed across the area had vanished there General features: Kreed is a dynamic 1st- person-3D-Shooter with its action taking place at the graveyard of spaceships, in a mysteries area of cosmic Universe. Its hero, who is an elite warrior from a semi-religious organisation, will overcome lots of danger on his way, meet representatives of unknown to the mankind races and civilisations. Original weaponry and items of equipment, dynamic battles, lots of special effects allows a player find himself in the very centre of events, and the variety of level interior brings the colours of the fantastic world of the 3d century. Main features: * The system of bringing game scenes into view uses modern possibilities of DirectX 8.0: a. Pixel and vector shaders b. Particle Systems c. Per-pixel lighting e. Texturing uses the maps of environments (cubemaps) f. Projection textures cover all game objects including dynamic ones g. Skeleton animation (up to 120 "bones" per character, fingers, lips and eyes are animated) h. Volumetric and layered fog i. Stencil-buffer based shadows j. Up to 4000 polygons in a model * The game engine provides vast possibilities: a. Realistic enemies' Artificial Intelligence b. Realistic physical processes, impacts and explosions c. Complex level design * Updated audio-engine that is compatible to the majority of modern sound cards: a. Sounds of environment b. Volumetric sound effects * Client-server architecture of X-Tend supports multiplayer game mode allowing simultaneous playing of great number of players via the Internet or LAN. * Different varieties of the multiplayer modes - DeathMatch, Team DeathMatch,СTF, Last Man Standing, Assault, etc.