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Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri

Description

Strike Force Centauri, the premier Strike Team on Alpha Centauri, was founded to combat pirates. As Nikola ap Io, you'll be leading them into combat... But the pirates are too well armed... And the Terra Hegemony may be involved. When the covert action turns overt and a full-out assault is mounted by the Hegemony upon Alpha Centauri... All that stands in the way is SFC...

TN:SFC is a first-person sci-fi combat sim featuring realistic sci-fi weapons with true 3-D terrain. You control a power-suit with arm-mounted weapons: just aim (with mouse) and shoot, while move completely independently (using keyboard).

You can choose from multiple types of suits (scout, regular, heavy), multiple types of weapons (everything from simple lasers to railguns to missile launchers), multiple assistance modules (from mine layer to auto-doc), and up to three squadmates that'll follow your orders. You are pitted against enemies from pirates to tanks and mechs, even psycho clones and armed drones. Missions vary from attack and recon to rescue and defend, across three different planets in a variety of weather and terrain.

TN:SFC also features FMV that rivals Wing Commander 3 in production quality.The plot is the standard "fight simple threats that turns out to be really nasty while ferreting out the mole", but there are enough twists in the plot to be entertaining.

Alternate Titles

• "טרה נובה" -- Hebrew Spelling
• "Terranova: Strike Force Centauri" -- Common misspelling
• "Free Fall" -- pre-release development title

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User Reviews

A great squad-based combat game with just one problem	Roedie (5139)
Great action, good strategy and kickass gameplay!	Aamir Alavi (5)	unrated
One of the forgotten classics...	Kasey Chang (3695)	unrated
Out in the open air	Ashley Pomeroy (227)
Classic Sci-Fi Fun	Adam Baratz (1362)

The Press Says

PC Player (Germany)	Apr, 1996		100
Coming Soon Magazine	Mar 14, 1996	92 out of 100	92
GameSpot	May 08, 1996	9.2 out of 10	92
PC Games (Germany)	Apr, 1996	91 out of 100	91
PC Player (Brazil)	May, 1996		90
PC Zone	Aug 13, 2001	9 out of 10	90
Computer Games Magazine	1996		80
High Score	Jun, 1996	4 out of 5	80
Gamezilla	Oct 10, 2000	71 out of 100	71

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Trivia

Although critically acclaimed, Terra Nova was a huge commercial flop. This (together with the equally unsuccessful project of 1997, British Open Golf) plunged Looking Glass in a financial crisis from which the company never recovered. Ultimately, Looking Glass had to close its doors in June 2000. (That, and Eidos was dumping $25 million into Ion Storm at the time --Ed.)