Star Control 3

aka: Star Control: Kessari Quadrant, Star Control: The Kessari Quadrant

Released

1996 on DOS

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Legend Entertainment Company

Moby Score

6.1

#18,552 of 155K

Critics

68% (24)

Players

(98)

Ranking

#1,363 on DOS

Collected By

72 players

Genre: Action
Strategy
Perspective: Top-down
Pacing: Real-time
Gameplay: Shooter
Vehicular: Space flight
Setting: Sci-fi / futuristic

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Since the events in Star Control 2 the Ur-Quan have been pacified and the captain who bravely destroyed the Sa-Matra has had a horrible vision of the future. Suddenly without warning, all Hyperspace travel in the universe has stopped. Top scientists have pinpointed the cause of this disturbance somewhere in unexplored space in an area known as the Kessari Quadrant. Hastily assembling a fleet of ships as and an untested Precusor star drive... a loose alliance of alien races known as The League of Sentient Races sends a task force to the Kessari Quadrant. You are its commander.

Star Control 3 features a new 3D star map, new alien races to discover, new worlds to explore and colonize, new artifacts to research and a new isometric Hyper Melee battle system for inter-starship battles.

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Producer	George MacDonald
Associate Producer	Allen Edwards
Assistant Producer	Daniel Tyrrell
Melee Ship Design Support	Russell Borogove Dan Evans Mark Jensen Brian Sexton
Dialog Writing	Allen Edwards Mark Jensen Brian Sexton
Dialog Editing	Allen Edwards George MacDonald Tomi McNaughton Brian Sexton
Test Department Supervisor	Alex V. Cabal
Test Lead	Daniel Tyrrell
Game Testers	Matt Abrams Richard Gangwish Matthew Guzenda Erik Johnson Tomi McNaughton Brian Sexton
Test Support	Harvey Bush Brian P. Clayton Sean Dornan-Fish
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1001 Video Games

Star Control 3 appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Novel

A novel titled Star Control: Interbellum was published by Prima and written by author W. T. Quick. The book supposedly contains story and events that takes place between Star Control 2 and Star Control 3... however the popular opinion is that the author has never played or was ever given the plot to either game. Also the player character of both games is given a name for the novel, "Commander Omega".

Screenshot capturing technique

This game will dump a screenshot to a .PCX file if you hit PRTSC during gameplay.

Star Control III

Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III owned the character rights to the various alien races, Accolade owned the Star Control copyright. When the original creators declined to make the new sequel, Accolade gave them an ultimatum; sell the character rights or part three would be made with entirely new characters, no continuity involved whatsoever. The creators decided to make some final money off of their creations. A side note to this is that none of the original artists involved with Star Control II were even approached to work on Star Control III.

Information also contributed by Aaron Grier, Vance, and WildKard