Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter's completely updated UI takes the player into a realtime rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles play out with incredible detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy. New features abound, with political Alliances between multiple empires, top-down ship design systems, hexagonal movement grids, and much more. Space Empires V boldly takes the next step in the space strategy genre.
- 24bit 3D rendered graphics.
- Support for 1024x768 and greater resolutions.
- Turn-Based and Simultaneous Turn Game Play.
- Detailed Real-Time Tactical Space Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
- Detailed Real-Time Tactical Ground Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
- Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
- Detailed Empire management: Research, Intelligence, Politics, Construction Queues, Vehicle Design, and more.
- Detailed game setup: Victory Conditions, Restricted Technologies, Galaxy Layout, Player Configuraton, and more.
- Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
- Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
- Discover: Black Holes, Nebulae, Binary Stars, Trinary Stars, Asteroid Belts, Gas Giants, Cosmic Storms, and more!
- Huge Technology Tree: Over 6000 tech levels, 500+ components and facilities.
- Detailed Race Creation: Unique ship models, race picture, racial traits, technology, history, and more.
- Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles,etc.
- Completely customizable data files: All game information is in easily editable text files. Create your own Components, Facilities, Vehicle Sizes, etc.
- Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech (even script the AI yourself!)
- Game comes with 14 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
- Right-click menus return!
- Advanced Political features: Protectorates, Subjugated empires, trade game items, claim territories, form alliances, and more.
- Random Events: Rebellions, earthquakes, supernovas, industrial accidents, cosmic storms, and the occasional plague!