Star General pits up to seven alien races against one another in a galactic battle of conquest. The seven races include the deceitful Cephalians, the reptilian Dragonians, the feline Hressa, the Humans, the barbarian Khalians, the insectoid Xritra, and fascist human separatists who belong to the Schleinel Hegemony.
There are 90 different types of units, from ground forces to spaceships. Among the space vessels there are a wide variety of specializations—including mine countermeasure vessels, assault vessels, troop transports, reconnaissance, battleships, missile boats, carriers and destroyers. There is also some use of older terms of reference for classifying warships—terms of reference that are not used in the navies of today. One example is that the term monitor is used to specify a kind of space warship. The general disposition of ship types is an approximation of navies in the era between the two world wars, before carriers became a major part of naval forces. On the planetary surface, there are space docks for launching ships, mines to produce monetary units, factories to manufacture ships, and industrial plants and biodomes to support population, as well as a range of ground forces, again roughly equivalent to military forces in mid to late 1930s to perhaps early WW2.
Star General sold at least 50,000 units by September 1997[5] and over 120,000 units by May 1999.[6]
Computer Gaming World's Tim Carter panned the game as "all the flash and little of the gameplay" of what made the original a classic, but praised the clean interface, simple learning curve, and some fun moments in space fleet actions.[3]
Star General was named the 85th best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997.[7]
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star, general, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, august, 2017. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Star General news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Star General is a computer wargame last in SSI s series of hexagonal movement games popularized by Panzer General Star General bases its story setting on The Fleet a series of books written by David Drake and Bill Fawcett The game was developed by Catware and SSI in 1996 Star GeneralDeveloper s CatwarePublisher s Strategic SimulationsDesigner s Bill FawcettProgrammer s Matthew FauseyMike IselyDavid PotterComposer s Danny PelfreyRick RhodesPlatform s MS DOS WindowsReleaseNA December 6 1996 1 EU December 1996Genre s Computer wargameMode s Single player Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Reception 3 References 4 External linksGameplay editStar General pits up to seven alien races against one another in a galactic battle of conquest The seven races include the deceitful Cephalians the reptilian Dragonians the feline Hressa the Humans the barbarian Khalians the insectoid Xritra and fascist human separatists who belong to the Schleinel Hegemony There are 90 different types of units from ground forces to spaceships Among the space vessels there are a wide variety of specializations including mine countermeasure vessels assault vessels troop transports reconnaissance battleships missile boats carriers and destroyers There is also some use of older terms of reference for classifying warships terms of reference that are not used in the navies of today One example is that the term monitor is used to specify a kind of space warship The general disposition of ship types is an approximation of navies in the era between the two world wars before carriers became a major part of naval forces On the planetary surface there are space docks for launching ships mines to produce monetary units factories to manufacture ships and industrial plants and biodomes to support population as well as a range of ground forces again roughly equivalent to military forces in mid to late 1930s to perhaps early WW2 Reception editReceptionReview scoresPublicationScoreComputer Games Strategy Plus nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 2 Computer Gaming World nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 3 PC Gamer US 86 4 Star General sold at least 50 000 units by September 1997 5 and over 120 000 units by May 1999 6 Computer Gaming World s Tim Carter panned the game as all the flash and little of the gameplay of what made the original a classic but praised the clean interface simple learning curve and some fun moments in space fleet actions 3 Star General was named the 85th best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997 7 References edit Online Gaming Review 1997 02 27 Archived from the original on 1997 02 27 Retrieved 2023 04 16 Smith Peter January 31 1997 Star General Review Computer Games Strategy Plus Archived from the original on October 7 1997 a b Carter Tim June 1 1997 Star General Computer Gaming World Archived from the original on August 16 2000 McDonald T Liam March 1997 Star General PC Gamer US Archived from the original on March 3 2000 MacDonald T Liam September 23 1997 Panzer General II Preview GameSpot Archived from the original on April 18 2001 Shattered Light RPG Ships for PC May 20 1999 Archived from the original on August 22 1999 Retrieved August 3 2023 Flynn James Owen Steve Pierce Matthew Davis Jonathan Longhurst Richard July 1997 The PC Gamer Top 100 PC Gamer UK No 45 pp 51 83 External links editStar General at MobyGames Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Star General amp oldid 1175722685, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
