Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain

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Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain

Developer(s)	Heliotrope
Publisher(s)	Atari, THQ
Platform(s)	PC (Windows), Apple Macintosh
Release date	October 1997
Genre(s)	RTS
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Initially "K-A", Now "Everyone".
Media	Compact disc
System requirements	Intel 486 Processor, 16MB RAM, Microsoft Windows 95, DirectX v3.0
Input methods	Keyboard and Mouse

The ship design screen, showing some weapons that can be added to a ship.

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain is a real-time strategy computer game. The game emphasizes empire building and customization. Instead of using a single large map as do most of the current real-time strategy games, Pax Imperia revolves around star systems connected by wormholes or jump points, which connect a system of star systems in a large web. The game allowed for the player to customise the species that they were to play to a high degree. Players could focus on construction, reproduction, research, espionage, or the acquisition of money. Players could select special qualities, such as having psychic powers or an aquatic physiology, and could tailor their species to be better at peaceful colonisation or conquest.

Different planets had different types of atmosphere, so that certain species could more easily colonise some than others, and each planet additionally had different quantities of natural resources, similar to the Space Empires series of games.

Unlike the Master of Orion series of games, Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain is not a turn based strategy game, but is instead real time. The game speed can be adjusted during the game, to speed up moments and slow down important parts in which a lot of interaction is needed.

Pax Imperia is a Latin term, meaning peace from empire. See also: Pax Romana

[edit] History

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain is the sequel to Pax Imperia, released in 1993 on Macintosh platforms. Its development was announced in 1995 by Blizzard Entertainment in association with Changeling Software for both the Macintosh and PC platforms, under the name of Pax Imperia 2.

Pax Imperia 2 was planned for Christmas 1995, but its release was delayed. In August 1996, Blizzard Entertainment announced having sold the game rights to THQ, which then asked Heliotrope Studios to finish its development. The game was released in 1997 under the name of Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain, exclusively on PC platform. ^[1]