Universal Combat: Hostile Intent

Release Date: cancelled

Action, FPP, multiplayer, singleplayer, internet, LAN

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Universal Combat: Hostile Intent is a science fiction action game with first person perspective (FPP). The BC3000AD studio is responsible for producing the title based on the Universal Combat engine. Players have the opportunity to take part in a conflict between Military and Insurgent factions competing for domination in space. Multiplayer mode allows up to 128 participants to have fun together. Work on the game has been suspended.

Hostile Intent is a game based on the Universal Combat engine, emphasizing clean combat. Compared to the original, it has improved graphics and algorithms of artificial intelligence, and removed the rather complicated career mode "Commander" and all the functionalities associated with it.

The game world is also significantly smaller than the original. It is composed of, among others:

5 star systems;
12 regions of space;
12 planets;
24 planetary mission zones;
10 space stations (on planets);
48 military bases (on planets);
12 star stations (orbiting around planets and in space).

Although Universal Combat has 13 playable breeds and 24 castes/classes (of which 13 were also playable), Hostile Intent offers only one playable breed, Terran, and two hostile castes - Military and Insurgent. The assortment of weapons is impressive and includes a variety of brutal extermination tools ranging from simple guns to rocket launchers. Most of them, known from the previous part of the game, have been redesigned, adapting to the requirements of a more modern graphic engine, while 6 are completely new constructions. Our character can also benefit from a wide range of useful items such as jetpacks, infrared glasses, various shields, etc. The creators have also put at our disposal a number of vehicles: fighters, transporters or cruisers.

The game offers single player gameplay as well as multiplayer modes. In single player mode you can fight in the campaign as Elite Force Pilot or Elite Force Marine. Both campaigns consist of 10 missions each. In addition, we can choose one of the 10 unrelated scenarios, which we can treat as a kind of training. There are two modes for multiplayer gameplay: