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Galactic Civilizations II
''Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords'' is a 4X turn-based strategy by Stardock for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to the 2003 game, ''Galactic Civilizations'', and was released at retail and on Stardock's online subscription service, TotalGaming.net, on February 21, 2006. An expansion, ''Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, Dark Avatar'', was released in February 2007. A second expansion, ''Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor, Twilight of the Arnor'', was released in April 2008. ''Dread Lords'' is set in the 23rd century, when multiple alien civilizations, including Earth in science fiction, Terrans, scramble to conquer the galaxy, planet by planet, by force, diplomacy, influence (culture), or technology. ''Dread Lords'' focuses on the single player experience that consists of a Campaign mode and a "Sandbox" mode, and omits multiplayer. The game is notable for its artificial intelligence, which is challenging without being given resources and abilities no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stardock
Stardock Corporation is an American software development Company (law), company founded in 1991 and incorporation (business), incorporated in 1993 as Stardock Systems. Stardock initially developed for the OS/2 platform, but was forced to switch to Microsoft Windows due to the collapse of the OS/2 software market between 1997 and 1998. The company is best known for computer programs that allow a user to modify or extend a graphical user interface as well as personal computer games, particularly Strategy video game, strategy games such as the ''Galactic Civilizations'' series, ''Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion'', ''Elemental: Fallen Enchantress'', and ''Ashes of the Singularity''. Stardock created and maintains WinCustomize, a graphical user interface customization community, and developed the Impulse (content delivery), Impulse content delivery system before its sale to GameStop. Many of the Skin (computing), skins and Theme (computer), themes featured on its site are for softwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |