Imperium Galactica (DOS)

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Description

Imperium Galactica is set sometime during the fourth millennium and you, as a human, must rebuild the Human Empire. You start out as a young lieutenant and are given a series of missions to complete. You then advance to the next rank and are given more ships to control and more available commands, but you have more area of the universe to police and more colonies. This continues until you reach the rank of Grand Admiral, where you are able to view the whole map.

When you are in command of a region, you must worry about its economy. Ensure that taxes are collected and that the people are well-fed and reproducing. 75 new scientific discoveries can be made over the course of the game.

Your enemies are a bunch of alien races. They each have their own style of architecture, ships, and land-based units. However, some are more inspired than others. Diplomacy options ensure that all-out war is not the only way to victory. In combat you have ships to protect and mercenary pirates to deal with.

There is a plot-driven interactive movie element to the game, with an opening movie, and cutscenes appearing whenever you advance in rank and also at certain other points in the game. Voices used in these are computer generated.

The player has to refit every single ship manually. The land battles resemble Command & Conquer , though with only vehicle units.

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Alternate Titles

• "银河霸主" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Imperium Galactica: The Universe Is Yours... If You Can Handle It." -- Tag-lined title
• "Imperium Galactica: Partez dans les étoiles et bâtissez-vous un Empire" -- French tag-lined title
• "Imperium Galactica: Das Universum Gehört Ihnen... Wenn Sie Es Packen Können." -- German tag-lined title

Part of the Following Group

• Imperium Galactica series

User Reviews

A unique entry in the stellar empire-building genre, with a real plot and story growth.	weregamer (169)
Great idea? Or just weird?	Maury Markowitz (248)

Critic Reviews

Svenska PC Gamer	Oct, 1997	84 out of 100	84
Cyber Stratege	Jun, 1997		80
PC Player (Germany)	Jun, 1997		80
Gameplay (Benelux)	Aug 01, 1997	74 out of 100	74
PC Joker	May, 1997	72 out of 100	72
Power Play	May, 1997	72 out of 100	72
Gamesmania.de	1997	70 out of 100	70
Gamezilla	1997	68 out of 100	68
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Jul 31, 1997		60
PC Games (Germany)	May, 1997	56 out of 100	56

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Trivia

Version differences

The Hungarian release (first release) and the foreign release (American, UK, France) have different cutscenes. The Hungarian version has cutscenes that have uncompleted textures and the opening of the game actually is live action but in the other releases it was fully CGI. It was said that GT didn't like some of the live action scenes because of the backgrounds and the actors didn't blend very well. However GT was kind enough to let the in-game messages from the Hungarian version undisturbed.

Related Web Sites

• GT Interactive (Developer/Publisher for Imperium Galactica)