Cyber Wars
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Cyber Wars is a massively multiplayer online game, originally created by Jagex in 1999 and hosted at the Games Domain 'Castle'. It was written in Java and heavily influenced by the cult game Chaos. Although the original fantasy setting of Chaos was replaced with a science fiction setting and the graphics were slightly improved, the rules remained almost unchanged. The two most important improvements were the integrated chat box and the ability to play the game online.
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[edit] Summary Of Cyber Wars
Cyber Wars is a strategy game in which vile alien monsters, high tech machines and commander upgrades are used to fight opposing players. Each turn a player is able to select a monster or item to send down. Each monster or item had a specific percentage of working. During the game each player is given an amount of time to move their commander and units so that they might destroy the enemy. In this way play continues until only one commander is left.
[edit] The History Of Games Domain
Games Domain was a very popular site owned by BTOpenworld, 'The GamesDomain Castle' was its primary source of visitors, and in its day was one of the largest multiplayer communities around.
On 31 October 2003, the domain name was sold to Yahoo as part of BT's strategy to re-brand the BT Openworld service to consumer friendly 'BT Yahoo Broadband'. Shortly afterwards, Yahoo terminated the 'Castle' without warning, and made radical changes to the site that caught some visitors by surprise.
Almost immediately, forums popped up across the Internet, full of people trying to find their favourite site, and upon hearing the truth, turned their anger towards Yahoo. Petitions soon cropped up to bring the Castle back, and despite many signings, nothing became of it.
[edit] The Future of Cyber Wars
Recently a talented programmer from Europe has taken an interest in Cyber Wars and has decided to recreate it. The new game, re-named Cyber Battles, is popular with previous players and is developing a secure fan base. Skilled spriters have improved upon the graphics greatly and together with the new programming, game play has been enhanced significantly.
The clone is considered by many to be a great improvement over Jagex's Cyber Wars in many ways. For example, the original version would crash or freeze if a commander was killed a certain way, but this no longer occurs. Many other bugs have likewise been fixed.
