Alien Nations

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Description

Alien Nations is a real-time strategy game similar to The Settlers III. It features three campaigns à ten missions which are told from the perspective of one of the races: the blue stoneworking Pimmons, the militaristic and wild Amazons, or the insectoid Sajiki. The main focus lies on building a settlement with working production circles. Of course there are also other aspects which need to be taken care of, e.g. security or entertainment. So the player chooses the buildings he wants to construct and chooses a suitable place for it. The main source of income are taxes, which are mostly spent on balancing running costs - the rest can be used for research. Before the player can construct new or upgraded buildings he needs to meet certain research criteria.

But of course he also needs to "build" enough fighters to win battles against the other two races. Available are five different fighters, magicians, priests who heal wounded units and more. It is possible to let units patrol between two points or divide them into groups - mass production however is no viable strategy. In most missions fighting plays no or a only small role - more important are diplomacy and trade. Some of the people's needs can only be served with goods bought from the other races. Other options are a truce or building an embassy.

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Alternate Titles

• "Затерянный мир" -- Russian spelling
• "Zateryannij Mir" -- Russian title
• "Die Völker" -- German title
• "Amazons & Aliens" -- Simon and Schuster release title

Part of the Following Group

• Alien Nations / Die Völker series

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Critic Reviews

Bravo Screenfun	Windows	Jun, 1999	1 out of 6	100
PC Player (Germany)	Windows	Jul, 1999	81 out of 100	81
Power Unlimited	Windows	Jan, 2000	8.1 out of 10	81
Gamesmania.de	Windows	1999	80 out of 100	80
Imperium Gier	Windows	Oct 10, 2001	7 out of 10	70
Privat Computer PC	Windows	2000	65 out of 100	65
Gamer's Pulse	Windows	Nov 20, 2000	53 out of 100	53
GameSpot	Windows	Nov 21, 2000	5.3 out of 10	53
IGN	Windows	Nov 20, 2000	4.3 out of 10	43
PC Zone	Windows	Aug 13, 2001	4 out of 10	40

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Related Web Sites

• Alien Nations (official website)
• Alien Nations (Official Site (English))
• JoWooD Productions (Hompage of the publisher.)
• NEO (Homepage of the developer.)
• Selling agent in Austria (Homepage ot the austrian selling agent.)
• Selling agent in Germany. (Homepage of the german selling agent.)