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Legends of Pegasus announced
Posted: 11.08.2011 18:32 by JonahFalcon Comments: 27
Kalypso has announced a new 4X space strategy sim for Windows, Legends of Pegasus. The game takes place in a 3D universe where players play the last surviving humans who are struggling to survive in unforgiving space.

 
The game features a detailed 3D universe where players utilize economic, diplomatic and scientific means to expand their empires.

The game's bullet-point feature list includes:

* A complete 4X science fiction gaming experience- eXlore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate your way to galactic conquest
* Tactical space combat – featuring a unique mix of turn-based and real-time strategy gameplay
* A realistic, immersive universe – three races and 12 playable factions exist in a living-breathing universe populated by a huge variety of non-player civilizations
* Play alone or dominate with friends – an extensive single-player campaign coupled with a strong multiplayer focus ensure an engaging experience
* Massive customization options – design, build and deploy ships created from research into hundreds of technologies based on an extensive tech tree
* Make it yours – modding options will be available, allowing players to customize missions, maps and more

Legends of Pegasus will be released sometime in the Summer of 2012.

Comments

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
djole381
Looks interesting. I just hope they don't screw this up like they did with "Dungeons".
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
JonahFalcon
It looks and sounds like Sins of a Solar Empire.
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Aug 11, 2011
unsilviu
Lol, I was just about to say the exact same thing, then I scrolled down and saw your comment :P
By Illusive_Serb (SI Veteran Member) on Aug 11, 2011
Illusive_Serb
I didn't play Sins of Solar empire, but I played Nexus - the Jupiter incident. It's not "build your empire" kind of game, but real-time strategy, and I liked it. And this looks interesting too. Though lately I'm into space theme. Replaying Mass Effect games :P
By djole381 (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
djole381
Nexus??? Ahhhhh, sweet memories :) Too bad the devs gone bust. They were working on a sequel.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
nocutius
There's never enough space strategy games :). Hope this is good.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
SirRoderick
Certainly looks interesting. Always room for a good 4X on my harddrive.
By Xyfer117 (SI Core) on Aug 11, 2011
Xyfer117
Definitley going to give this a try
By Knave (SI Core) on Aug 11, 2011
Knave
I was going to say it reminded me of Sword of the Stars with it's blend of turn based and real time gameplay.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
SirRoderick
The 3 races - 12 factions sounds like it could be good. Provided the factions are actually different in a meaningfull way.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
JonahFalcon
Sword of the Stars II comes out next week.
By djole381 (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
djole381
@JonahFalcon
Are you absolutely sure about that? I've checked several sources and some of them say that the release date is in September (Paradox Interactive site included) while others say that the release date is in August.
By Kres (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
Kres
Nice job catching this so quickly Jonah. SotS2 should come out soon. Abouts 2 weeks I'd say, without checking. Involved in some ad designs for the game. So, soon anyway...
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Aug 11, 2011
JonahFalcon
Official site now says Sept 20 for SotS2.
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Aug 12, 2011
unsilviu
Ah yes, Nexus, it is still semi-alive in the form of mods, I remember a stargate one that even promises a fully-voiced campaign. But Nexus is nothing like sins or this LoP, it's more like a tactical simulator than an RTS.
By Kres (SI Elite) on Aug 12, 2011
Kres
Nexus was great. Don't really recall the details but I recall I enjoyed it.
By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Aug 12, 2011
JustCommunication
Sword of the Stars II was pushed back to September 13th. At least here in Europe.

But yeah, this game does look very interesting. What's more interesting is that Kalypso represents Sins of a Solar Empire in Europe, so will be interesting to see if they still will now that they have their own 4X franchise.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Aug 12, 2011
JonahFalcon
It's being developed by NovaLogic, who have been around forever doing combat flight sims.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Aug 12, 2011
herodotus
Yeah, and pretty average Flight "games" at that. They didn't do too badly with their Tank "sim" (not really a simulator, but then neither are their flight "sims").
Aside from the title (too "BSG" for my taste), it will be an interesting competitor for "SoaSE 2"
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Aug 12, 2011
unsilviu
Right, I remember the old F-22 Lightning 2. Hopefully this one will be at least as good as Sins.
By BlitzKrieg (SI Veteran Member) on Aug 13, 2011
BlitzKrieg
WoW, this looks very close to EvE and Sins of a Solar Empire, lets see how it goes up or down!

Hopefully they got it right, because it looks great.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Aug 13, 2011
SirRoderick
EvE?!

I'm going to take a wild guess and say you've never played EvE.
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Aug 13, 2011
unsilviu
Ahem. What Sir Roderick means to say is that Eve looks quite different from the aforementioned RTS games, it plays much closer to Nexus actually.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Aug 13, 2011
SirRoderick
And the part where you're playing in spreadsheet mode most of the time.
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Aug 13, 2011
unsilviu
True, I think one could actually remove the graphics from it and excel, most of it is best played using menus.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Aug 13, 2011
JonahFalcon
Sorry, there was a mistake. It's by a new developer Novacore, not Novalogic.
By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Aug 18, 2011
JustCommunication
Yeah I was going to say - this is a debut title from a new studio. They've played games like Sins, Master of Orion, and even SOTS to death though, so they've got a wide range of influence.

Graphically, it's looking VERY nice, and it has a single player story... not sure if it will have that flare yet though.