Space Rangers 2: Dominators

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Space Rangers 2
Developer(s)	Elemental Games
Publisher(s)	1C Company Excalibur Publishing Cinemaware Marquee
Distributor(s)	Red Ant Enterprises Trymedia
Platform(s)	Windows XP
Release date	25 November, 2004 (1C Company) June 17, 2005 (Excalibur Publishing) March 27, 2006 (Cinemaware Marquee)
Genre(s)	Text adventure, real-time strategy, Space trading and combat simulator, turn-based strategy, shoot 'em up, role-playing game, third-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen PEGI: 12+, violence
Media	CD-ROM, DVD, digital download
System requirements	Windows 98/Me/2000/XP CPU: Pentium2 450 MHz RAM: 128 Mb HDD free space: 800 Mb GPU, supporting 800×600 resolution and 16 bit color palette CD-ROM or DVD-ROM (depending on release edition)
Input methods	Mouse, keyboard

Space Rangers 2: Dominators (released in North America with the subtitle Rise of the Dominators) is a multi-genre science fiction computer game developed by Elemental Games for Windows and first published in 2004 by 1C Company. The player takes the role of a spaceship pilot, and may explore, trade, engage in space and ground based combat, and undertake various types of missions. Space Rangers 2 is the sequel to the 2002 computer game Space Rangers.

Contents 1 Setting 2 Gameplay 3 Reception 4 Publishing history 5 Notes 6 External links

[edit] Setting

Space Rangers 2 is set in the year 3300. Sentient combat robots known as Dominators are attacking the five civilizations of the Coalition: the humans, the Maloqs, the Pelengs, the Faeyans, and the Gaalians. There are three Dominator types, each at war with each other: the Blazeroids, the Kelleroids, and the Terranoids. The player begins the game as a trainee member of the Space Rangers – a corps of pilots charged with defending the galaxy from the Dominators.^[1]

[edit] Gameplay

Space Rangers 2 combines multiple gameplay modes. Space travel takes place in a third-person perspective turn-based 2D engine. The game also includes a 3D real-time strategy engine for planetary battles, with the option to control units within the RTS engine to play the battles as third-person shooters. The game also features an arcade shoot 'em up mode, and text-based missions that include interactive fiction and logic puzzle elements. The player character can gain experience points and improve skills, and the player character's ship can be upgraded as the player earns more cash. Sources of income for the player character include trading, piracy, completing missions for various factions, mining, and deploying research probes.

[edit] Reception

Space Rangers 2 attracted mainly positive reviews from the gaming media. Many reviewers noted its extreme open-endedness, the variety of its mini-games, and its off-beat style. Criticisms centered on its perceived lack of polish, the uneven quality of its various mini-games, and the quality of the English translations.^[2]

[edit] Publishing history

Space Rangers 2 was originally published in Russia by 1C Company in November, 2004.^[3] In June 2005, Excalibur Publishing released a DVD version that included both Space Rangers 2 and its prequel, Space Rangers.^[4] Australian distributor Red Ant Enterprises released a CD-ROM version (Space Rangers 2 only) in 2005. In March, 2006, Cinemaware Marquee released a CD-ROM version subtitled Rise of the Dominators in North America.^[5] Space Rangers 2 is also distributed electronically via Trymedia and TotalGaming.net.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators (official Cinemaware Marquee website)
• Space Rangers at Excalibur Publishing
• Space Rangers 2 at 1C Company