Splitkick: I can hire an amoeba general to eradicate his own homeworld.
First off: space amoebas! How cool is that? Secondly, autogenocidal space amoebas.
Even better!
Endless Space is a turn-based 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) game which begins in the year 3000 A.D. All trace of human history has vanished. The humanoid races have some vaguely historical flavor-text in their descriptions, and the alien factions are rather original in their design (see above). The entire way the game is written, in its technology descriptions, its random game-altering events, and the randomly populated list of “heroes” you can recruit, is intended to build a story. I enjoy the anachronism of Civilization more than I do the story here but it makes each new game fresh beyond the randomization inherent in the procedural map generation.
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Amplitude Studios announced that from Thursday, August 2nd through Sunday, August 6th, all its games (Endless Space 2, Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless, and Endless Space) will be FREE for everyone to play!
Vice went to EGX in Birmingham to ask a host of video game makers about the stress, strains and strengths of the modern convention.
