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Space Colony (2003)

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The actual mission title would be Celensoan A - MIssion 1: Antidote, but it's too long :P On this game you get a tutorial , and then the campaign branches in two, the peaceful missions and the Military Path, each path has several world,s and each world several missions. This is the first world of the peaceful path Celensoan A, and it's first mission, Antidote played on hard mode.

Got this game as a press kit. This game is a patched up version of a very old game so it runs on modern settings, I didn't get to play the original so I don't really know the mechanics to heart. I'm learning as I go.

The game is a mix of Sims and Red Alert. The Sims because you have several colonists with wants and needs that you have to focus on, so they don't kill each other. Red Alert because not only are the problems internal, you got the alien planet attacking the space colony itself (and its colonist contents :P), and the RTS side is very fast paced, like Red Alert (well at least the enemies are fast paced, your colonists are usually slow like snails).

While I feel the game would use some reworking on its mechanics, that sounds unlikely and perhaps I'd need to get more time on it to make sure, some of the levels that were near impossible were easier once you know at heart what to do.

The game has some gameplay bugs, you may notice them on the video, but nothing that doesn't allow you to play. The most annoying bug I have is that the character portraits do not animate with what they say, some don't even move their mouths.

Anyway, this game is rather hard on hard mode (for newbies at least), given the immense amount of buildings and stats to keep track of. So I thought of uploading a few levels I manage to solve.

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