Sword of the Stars
It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology, the Node Drive. This is an innovation that will finally allow travel from star to star at speeds faster than light. As mankind is…
Sword of the Stars is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Kerberos Productions, released 22 August 2006 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sword of the Stars is
Sword of the Stars is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Kerberos Productions and released in 2006. It was published by Lighthouse Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology, the Node Drive. This is an innovation that will finally allow travel from star to star at speeds faster than light. As mankind is poised on the brink of a new era, tragedy strikes, as the first inter-colony ship is destroyed and Earth is ravaged by an alien force. What was supposed to be the dawning of a new era instead was stymied by a grim, new reality... We are not alone...and we are no longer safe.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Sword of the Stars holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.5 Ghz Intel® Pentium® or equivalent, 1 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista) and DirectX® 9 compliant video card with 128MB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it launched against
Sword of the Stars launched on 22 August 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Dead Rising, Test Drive Unlimited and Call of Juarez. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Dead Rising, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Juarez.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sword of the Stars yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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