Star Control II

Star Control II is a video game that consists of 3 releases

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Star Control II is the second game in the Star Control franchise and is known as one of the greatest space adventure games of all time. With its deep story line, incredibly detailed alien life forms and intense ship battles, Star Control II is an incredible ride from start to finish.

Overview

The Ur-Quan demand your surrender

Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is the second game in the Star Control franchise and is widely regarded as the best in the series. Developed by Toys For Bob and published by Accolade, Star Control II was originally released for the PC in November of 1992 and was ported a few years later to the 3DO. With its deep story line, incredibly detailed alien life forms, top-notch writing, and intense ship battles, Star Control II has attained cult status and stands tall on many reviewers' all-time greatest games lists.

With the 3D0 version Toys For Bob also included the original source code. A free open source version has been produced for both Windows and MacOSX from refinement of this code, and the game has been ported from there to other platforms as well. This version is called "The Ur-Quan Masters" without reference to the Star Control name because Toys for Bob does no longer holds the appropriate rights.

Gameplay

Choose your spacecraft

From the main menu screen, the player may embark on the main quest mode or a standalone arcade-style one-on-one ship combat component dubbed "Super Melee" in which the player may practice piloting the various alien races' ships against the AI or a live opponent (see "Ship Combat" below). The main adventure contains the bulk of the content of SC2 and encompasses a variety of genres making SC2 an extremely difficult game to classify. Players can expect to interact with a wide array of alien races with their own distinct personalities and agendas through dialogue trees, battle hostile lifeforms in ship-to-ship combat, harvest resources from undiscovered worlds, upgrade and research new technologies for their capitol ship, unlock secrets and histories of various galactic species, and ultimately save the galaxy from extermination of all sentient life. While the main quest bears certain resemblance to open world gameplay as it is understood today, the player cannot simply explore at his or her leisure without consequences as the inhabitants of the galaxy will pursue their own agendas, one of which being the aforementioned galactic genocide - which, unfortunately, includes you.

Main Plot

Our heroic protagonist, captain of a powerful Precursor space ship, returns home only to find Earth imprisoned in an impenetrable force field. Turns out, while you were busy "discovering your heritage", these green googley eyed monsters that like to hang out with the skulls of their victims, totally enslaved your people. As the last hope for humanity, you set out into the milky way, to gather a coalition of alien races and destroy your Ur-Quan masters.

On your quest you can:

    •   Visit hundreds of stars, all with unique configurations of planets and moons
    •   Fight spiders that can cloak, suicide hamsters, sadists with big guns, *play* with *campers*,and more!
    •   Talk to plants
    •   Harvest biomass from uninhabited planets to trade for goods and services
    •   Learn your future from a cockatoo
    •   Travel to another dimension
    •   Cause interstellar wars

These things and more await you, in Star Control II.

General Information Edit

Game Name	Star Control II
Platform(s)	3DO PC
Publisher(s)	Accolade, Inc. Crystal Dynamics, Inc.
Developer(s)	Toys for Bob
Genres	Add a new genre Action Adventure
Themes	Add a new theme Sci-Fi
Original US Release	Jan. 1, 1994 need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	Novemeber 1992 know the real date?
Aliases	Star Control 2 The Ur-Quan Masters

Trivia

Name This Game: In this galaxy-spanning exploration/arcade shooter/role playing game, you play the role of an Earth-born captain, marooned on a planet during the fateful Ur-Quan War. Fortunately, the planet was notable for its ancient ship-building factory, and you and your fellow scientists, over the course of twenty years, built a starship and returned to Earth. You find it encapsulated in a slave shield, having been conquered by the Ur-Quan. You explore the galaxy looking to build an army of allies, banding together to fight this alien menace, all the while meeting interesting races, exploring planets, and learning more about the true goal of the evil Ur-Quan.