Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy. New features abound with political alliances between multiple empires, a top-down ship design system, a hexagonal movement grid, and many more. Due to player demand, the game is completely “moddable” and even adds a scriptable AI system to the mix. Space Empires V boldly takes the next step in the genre of space strategy.
24 bit 3D real-time rendered graphics.
Detailed Tactical Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
New vehicle types and sizes: Ships, Bases, Freighters, Fighters, Mines, Satellites, Troops, Drones, and Weapons Platforms.
Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
Huge Technology Tree: Thousands of tech levels with hundreds of components and facilities.
Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles, etc.
Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech.
14 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
Complete game customization allowed by players ("mods").
windows Minimum
OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
Processor: Pentium 500MHz
Memory: 64 Mb RAM
Storage: 500 Mb hard drive space
Directx: DirectX 7.0 (or better)
To activate the game, you need a Steam Account
Login or register at the official Steam Website and download Steam client
Install and start application, login with your Account name and Password
Click the Games Menu.
Choose Activate a Product on Steam...
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the process
After the successful code verification, go to the "MY GAMES" tab and start downloading.
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