Space Crusade

Genre:

Strategy

Year:

1992

Developer:

Gremlin Interactive

Publisher:

Gremlin Interactive

Perspective:

3rd-person, Top-down

Theme:

Sci-Fi / Futuristic, Turn-based, Board / Party game

Releases:

DOS (1992), Amiga (1992), Amstrad CPC (1992), Atari ST (1992), ZX Spectrum (1992), Commodore 64 (1992)

This is a game about space commando which main taks is to seek and destroy enemies of the humanity: Space Crusade. There are various enemy civilization, these hostile life forms are a threat for humanity and therefore your space command is givven a task, to destroy all these enemies, so humanity could live peacefully. This game is a sort of mix between strategy and action game, and the most, it will remind you the famous series of X-Com. You enter a different allien's spaceships and you have a limited ammount of turns, so you must use them wisely (it's a turn-based strategy, so every move you should think about should good). After you can't move further, it is your opponent's turn, so you have wait and watch what is he going to do. At the beginning you can choose one of three space teams: Blood Angels, Imperial Fists, or Ultra Marines. Individual missions are varied: from the destruction of the hostile computer, through secret weapons search, rescue of genius scientist's brain, destroying alien eggs, or destroying huge battle robot named Dreadnought.