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Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force: Expansion Pack
Action 16 May 2001
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force action game add-on that greatly enhances interactivity and introduces new maps, levels, tasks and characters.
Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy
Strategy 24 October 2000
Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy is a real-time strategy developed by Blue Tongue Software. The plot of the game is based on the threads of Robert A. Heinley's novel. The player directs the actions of the title space soldiers who are sent to the mother planet of the Arachnids to destroy the aliens that threaten the Earth. The creators envisaged 20 missions to be carried out using various types of weapons.
Schizm: Mysterious Journey
Adventure 05 September 2001
Schism: The True Challenge is a classic adventure created by the Polish development studio Detalion. The action of the game has been set in the near future. The player directs the actions of the Angel spacecraft crew, who are trying to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of the inhabitants of the planet Argilus. The plot is the responsibility of well-known science fiction writers Terry Dowling and Tomasz Kolodziejczak.
Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern
Adventure 15 July 2001
An epic epic epic set in a world created by a series of books by Anne McCaffrey entitled Riders of Dragons from Pern. Nice for the eye and atmospheric 3D graphics.
Anachronox
RPG 27 June 2001
Another project of Ion Storm, the creators of the critically acclaimed Daikatana and the magnificent Deus Ex. It is a production for the RPG genre taking place in the distant future. Despite the American production team, the whole gameplay mechanism resembles Japanese games of this genre rather than their western counterparts.
Allegiance
Simulation 01 April 2000
A combination of a space simulator and a real-time strategy game. It was developed with multiplayer mode in mind and focuses on space battles between two teams. Each team has a leader tasked with giving orders to other units – the latter are controlled by other players. During the game the players can control many different space ships, each with different combat capabilities and purpose.
Dark Horizon
Simulation 23 September 2008
Tarr Chronicles: Sign of Pride is a continuation of the space simulation Tarr Chronicle: Sign of Ghosts. Quazar Studio is responsible for its development, as was the case with the first game in the series, and the Russian publishing company, Akella, took over the launch of the game.
Battlestar Galactica (2007)
Arcade 23 October 2007
A classic two-dimensional shooting, in a very clear reference to the title sci-fi series. Depending on the choice made, we can stand on the side of people or Cylons.
Wing Commander Arena
Simulation 25 July 2007
Wing Commander Arena is another position, belonging to the classic and extremely popular series of interstellar skirmish simulators, with their roots dating back to 1990. Developers decided to broaden the circle of fans of space shootings with the owners of Xbox 360 console.
A.I.M. Racing
Racing 09 February 2007
Racing is the subtitle of the third part of the A.I.M. series created by Russian SkyRiver Studios. The first two scenes were a combination of several genres - action games, adventure games and a simulator, all of which were treated with RPG elements.
Arena Wars Reloaded
Strategy 22 June 2007
Arena Wars Reloaded is the second part of Arena Wars, developed by exDream Entertainment studio and released in 2004, which combines elements of real-time strategy and dynamic shooting. The production maintained most of the game rules known from the previous version, and the main changes were made by developers in the visual layer and the game engine.
The Orange Box
Action 10 October 2007
A unique set of five games developed by the American studio Valve for PC and seventh generation consoles. All of them are powered by the Source Engine, a technology used for creating many good, highly valued games across the years. The main part of the bundle is the best-selling FPS Half-Life 2 and its two expansions: Episode One and Episode Two. The story of the games revolves around two characters: a physicist Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance, a member of the anti-alien resistance.
Armored Core 4
Action 20 March 2007
Armored Core 4 is another part of the flagship cycle of the Japanese company From Software. As usual, we are dealing here with a tactical action game in which there are huge robots involved in a futuristic armed conflict. This item has been prepared especially for the tenth anniversary of the series.
Thief: Antologia
Action 20 October 2006
Released exclusively for the Polish market, Thief: Antologia is a complete bundle of the first three installments in the best-selling third-person stealth game series, Thief. The three games were originally released in the years 1998-2004, all of them published by Eidos. The series is set in a dark, fantasy/steampunk world. You play as a master thief named Garrett who, properly motivated by his code and love for money, is ready to undertake even the most daring burglaries.
Starshatter: The Gathering Storm
Simulation 18 October 2006
Starshatter: The Gathering Storm is a continuation of an interesting combination of space simulator and real-time strategy, released in mid-2004. At the beginning of the game we play as an ordinary pilot of an interplanetary fighter or captain of a small frigate. However, with the successes of successive missions, we will be promoted in the hierarchy.
Battlezone (1983)
Action 10 April 1983
A science-fiction first-person shooter, considered to be one of the first games in the genre. In Battlezone, we sit in the cockpit of a futuristic tank and our task is to eliminate all hostile units that appear on the horizon before they do the same to us. The player can drive back and forth as well as rotate the turret to the left and right. We are informed of the presence of enemy tanks by a radar located in the upper part of the screen.
Abuse
Arcade 20 July 1995
In Abuse, a phenomenal shooting by Crack Dot Com, the player will play the role of Nick Vrenna, the only prisoner who did not succumb to the side effects of experiments with the gene of aggression. When rebellion breaks out in the facility and the dangerous specificity turns all its tenants into terrifying and bloodthirsty creatures, our hero decides to get weapons and forcefully get out of the complex.
System Shock (1994)
Action 21 May 1994
A cyberpunk action-adventure FPP game developed by Looking Glass Technologies under the lead of a game video industry veteran, Paul Neurath. You play as an experienced hacker who gets forcefully hospitalized and has a special implant injected into his neural system. After waking up from coma the protagonist discovers that all personnel of the medical station were slaughtered and the compound was taken over by an intelligent computer called Shodan.
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2
RPG 11 October 2005
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 is a continuation of the popular Japanese RPG title. Maintained in manga climates production came out of the wings of programmers from Atlus company.
Aeon Flux
Action 15 November 2005
Hollywood action films are characterized by the fact that in the process of their creation very often their counterparts in the form of games are created in parallel. The same case also applies to the production of Majesco - Aeon Flux.
SunAge
Strategy 30 November 2007
A futuristic real-time strategy that in many ways refers to the cult Starcraft. We take control of the units of one of the three available factions and conduct large-scale warfare.
Armored Core: Formula Front
Action 12 December 2004
Extremely complicated, as for consoles, simulation, in which we design our own mecha, and then throw it into the whirlwind of combat. There are several dozen different missions to complete. The game also has a quite extensive multiplayer.
HAAK
Action 25 August 2022
Metroidvania developed in action platform game style. In HAAK we play the protagonist, who travels through a post-apocalyptic world and eliminates hordes of enemies, heading to a safe land located in the far south.
