UNIVERSAL COMBAT

In September 2003, Battlecruiser Generations, the fifth title in the acclaimed Battlecruiser series, was rebranded as Universal Combat. The title is a new and improved sequel to the original Battlecruiser series with a more action focused theme. It contains several brand new engines, over fifty new features, several improvements and enhancements as well as an all new 3D model database

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FEATURES

Feature Highlights:

• NEW! Overhauled graphics engine with DirectX 9 support!
• NEW! Graphics engine with various shader enhancements
• NEW! PTE Spec III terrain engine
• NEW! Flight dynamics engine with mouse flight controls
• NEW! Space/planetary and vehicular dynamics engine
• NEW! Revised and even more sophisticated AI kernel
• NEW! Stereo soundfx and fourteen new song tracks
• NEW! Interface and action focused control revisions
• NEW! High polygon count 3D assets
• NEW! Space stations & starbase classes
• NEW! Recon, Assault, Engineer and Medic marine classes
• NEW! 22 first weapon weapons plus other items
• NEW! 28 character models + over 1500 animation frames
• NEW! 04 new careers for a total of 09 playable careers
• NEW! 22 driveable vehicles
• NEW! 12 controllable threat (e.g. SAM) units
• NEW! 10 controllable naval units (ships, subs, LCACs etc)
• NEW! 05 flyable planetary gunships
• NEW! 54 flyable space crafts (fighters, carriers, cruisers etc)
• NEW! 64 player multiplay support
• NEW! Advanced Campaign scenario
• NEW! 15 Instant Action scenarios

 
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS & RATING

Minimum Requirements

• WIN 98SE/ME/2K/XP (with all service packs)
• DirectX 9 or higher
• Pentium III 1Ghz or equivalent AMD processor
• 128MB RAM
• 32MB DirectX 8.1 compliant graphics card with Vertex Shader 1.1 or higher
• DirectX 8 compliant sound card
• 8X CDROM or DVD-ROM
• 1GB uncompressed hard drive disk space
• Mouse

Recommended Requirements

• WIN 2K/XP (with all service packs)
• Pentium IV 1.7Ghz or equivalent AMD processor
• 256MB RAM
• 64MB DirectX 8.1 compliant graphics card with Vertex and Pixel shader 1.1 or higher
• Joystick

Ultimate Requirements

• WIN 2K/XP (with all service packs)
• Pentium IV 3Ghz or equivalent AMD processor
• 512MB RAM
• 128MB DirectX 9 compliant graphics card with Vertex and Pixel shader 2.0 or higher
• Joystick

Multiplayer Requirements

• Client requires 56K or broadband modem
• Server requires LAN or broadband (cable, DSL etc) connection

Genre

Multi-genre

ESRB Rating

  Violence

Platform

PC CD-ROM

MSRP

This title was released as freeware on 01-02-2008

Release Date

Feb 2004