Galactic Command - Echo Squad（银河司令部：回音中队）03.07發佈

白衣

太空模拟空战游戏，Galactic Command - Echo Squad（银河司令部：回音中队）于2008.03.07正式发布，
有星际对抗，有地面火并，除单机外，并支援网路多人模式。

这会不会像FL 引起国内玩家的关注呢？ 且让我们拭目以待...

Galactic Command Echo Squad SE试玩版下载：
http://www.gamershell.com/download_23625.shtml
Size: 333.89MB

Description:
This demo includes a single scenario divided into five stages for a total of 130 minutes of gameplay time. Each phase flows into the next phase. If you don't complete any of the first three phases within the allotted time, you will lose track. The end result is you'll get killed when you get to active duty.

Galactic Command Echo Squad SE v2.10.02 补丁下载：
http://www.gamershell.com/download_23626.shtml
Size: 20.72MB

Description:
FIXED: The orders text display in the first mission shows "ECHO 01 and 02" instead of "ECHO 00 and 01", though the commander's audio instruction is correct.
FIXED: The TACOPS option in the COMMAND menu was emulating ALT+S instead of the recently revised ALT+T. The ALT+T hotkey to activate TACOPS still worked fine however

PRODUCT INFO
Minimum Requirements

    * Windows XP SP2, Vista (with all updates)
    * DirectX 9.0c or higher
    * Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz or equivalent
    * 256MB RAM
    * 128MB PCIe graphics card
            nVidia chipsets: GeForce FX or better
            ATI chipsets: Radeon 9500 or better
    * DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Recommended Requirements

    * Intel Pentium IV 2.8 GHz or equivalent
    * 512MB RAM
    * 256MB PCIe graphics card
            nVidia chipsets: GeForce 6800 or better
            ATI chipsets: Radeon X800 or better
    * Joystick, Xbox 360 Controller for Windows or DirectX compliant analog gamepad

Multiplayer Requirements
    * Broadband (cable/DSL) connection

Genre
      Aerial/Space Combat

Platform
      PC

MSRP
      Turner GameTap Subscription

Release Date

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Previews: GALCOM: Echo Squad
First look at GameTap's next episodic game.
By Alice Liang  02/06/2007

Niche PC space flight simulation developer 3000AD (maker of the Battlecruiser and Universal Combat series) may be moving into the console market on Xbox 360, but that doesn't mean it has forgotten its PC roots -- enter Galactic Command for both PC and Xbox 360. Originally designed as one product, GALCOM has since been divided into a two segment series, with GALCOM Excalibur as an Xbox 360 title, and GALCOM Echo Squad for episodic release on PC, exclusively via GameTap. Unlike 3000AD's previous series, this is an aerial combat franchise that wants to take you back to the 'good old days' -- the early days of space combat action.

"There aren't any similar games out there," says Derek Smart, president and lead developer at 3000AD. "There is currently a dearth of space games due to mainstream publishers not wanting to invest in such a niche genre. While there have been a few space games of late, few have captured the feel of what made space combat games fun back in the old days."

And taking out the "niche" by cutting out some of the high-end complexities found in other space games set in the Battlecruiser/Universal Combat world is exactly how the developers plan on capturing that fun space combat feel. "The concept behind GALCOM," Smart says, "is to take all 3000AD's advanced technologies around which complex games were wrapped and develop a space combat game -- not a sim -- which anyone and everyone can jump in and play at any point."


SCREENS: Echo Squad will feature "advanced flight dynamics engine, complete with [optional] 3D fighter cockpit displays," according to a press sheet for the game.


Some features afforded by the advanced technologies include an advanced A.I. engine -- with which you can issue NPC orders for your squad -- and a large assets database containing over 50 space crafts, vehicles, and buildings. Another feature is the seamless transition when moving from planets into space to travel around the massive galaxy -- eight star systems with 50 planets and moons. There are also dynamic time and weather effects like constellations in the night sky and snow storms.

Perhaps most notably, Echo Squad is supposed to feature an intuitive graphic user interface, which, while driven by mouse and keyboard hotkeys, supports the use of game pads (like the Logitech Dual Action and Xbox 360 controller for Windows) as well. "The support for these controllers alone," Smart says, "is a radical departure from the type of hardcore space games that 3000AD has been developing."

Smart continues: "Anyone who has played any of 3000AD's games will immediately notice that most of this game, while familiar, was designed to target a whole different group of gamers." To assist casual players even further, in-game tutorials and manuals cover all the gameplay and navigation basics.


SCREENS: GameTap's VP of content Ricardo Sanchez says, "We decided to pick up the game because we saw that it would appeal to our core audience who are currently spending many hours playing the legacy space games (e.g. Tachyon) on GameTap." [Click the image above to check out all GALCOM Echo Squad screens.]

But that doesn't mean the game should lack substance. While the developers say you can jump on and play Echo Squad easily for less than 10 minutes, each episode will have a 16 mission-long campaign for several hours of play. And thanks to Echo Squad's mission system, which the developers say has A.I. that adjusts to real-time variables, the scenarios will dynamically change so no two play sessions will be the same.

GALCOM Echo Squad episodes will be released monthly, and currently, there are four episodes that make up the story -- the first of which is Echo Squad: Rise of the Insurgents (look for it in a couple months -- official date TBD). The VP of content at GameTap, Ricardo Sanchez, confirms that Echo Squad will be exclusively on GameTap and "will not be available from any other source." And while "there is potential for more" episodes to come as needed, "none are planned at the moment."

But unlike Sam & Max, which is also episodic and released on GameTap, each episode of Echo Squad will not be an individual game. Instead, the episodes will be downloaded into a single game. "Both formats have their plusses and minuses," Sanchez says, "but depending on how the game itself is built, both formats work quite well for delivering an episodic game." Once Echo Squad is released later this year, we'll be able to better judge whether this method of delivery was successful, and whether the gameplay managed to capture the fun it was hoping to.

《Galactic Command - Echo Squad（银河司令部：回音中队）》视频
http://www.youtube.com/v/jLdTVvekqS4













[ 本帖最后由 白衣 于 2008-3-13 11:59 编辑 ]

白衣

3000AD消息称《Galactic Command Echo Squad SE》第一章开发完成。本周该空间战斗系列游戏的第一部分可以在
GamersGate和Direct2Drive这样的网站进行下载，并于4月现身各大零售店。游戏第一季包括4集，将在随后的几个月
陆续推出，6月之前结束发布。










[ 本帖最后由 白衣 于 2008-3-13 11:44 编辑 ]

RockmanII

貌似还可以
武器系统更多样化一些更好
座舱面积过大，影响视线啊，要是有第三人称视角更好！

freehb

很好很强大

bbgun

同意，一定要有第三人称视角，现在第一人称，40%的屏幕被无用的东西占据。

白衣

原帖由 RockmanII 于 2008-3-14 09:23 发表
貌似还可以
武器系统更多样化一些更好
座舱面积过大，影响视线啊，要是有第三人称视角更好！

有啊，有第三视角

autopopo

看来不错，不知道能不能开战舰

roy986

看起来不错的哦~

yajiedesign

貌似还可以
武器系统更多样化一些更好
座舱面积过大，影响视线啊，要是有第三人称视角更好！

yajiedesign

貌似还可以
武器系统更多样化一些更好
座舱面积过大，影响视线啊，要是有第三人称视角更好！