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Archon Ultra is a complete remake of classic cross-platform action/strategy smash Archon. Developed by Toys for Bob, famous for the Star Control series, Archon Ultra is designed by the same minds behind the original Archon along with the latest addition to the team, Fred Ford.

Archon Ultra features completely rewritten code with better game engine, much-improved graphics and sound as well as digital music (a la MOD files), along with a new style of game board and an additional "special weapon" for each figure. It also adds multiplayer game (modem as well as hot seat).

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One of my favorite games got updated! Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4495) 4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars
A good remake... Carl-J. Johansson (37) unrated

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Abandonia Apr 27, 2006 5 out of 5 100

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Trivia

Archon Ultra is obviously based largely on code from Star Control 2 as it also suffers from some of the same bugs (sound hanging under Windows as well as color corruption with newer VGA cards). Unfortunately, the bugfixes that apply to Star Control 2 do not apply to Archon Ultra.

(Editor's note: They also didn't test their sound library, DSMI, with Gravis Ultrasound cards, which require different handling. On a machine with a GUS, the sound is very slow during idle time.)


This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4495) on Mar 19, 2000.
 

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