Lost Empire: Immortal

by Paradox

Product Features

• Explore the vastness of a fully populated macrocosm, teeming with up to 5,000 stars of varying configurations
• Encounter the interstellar communities of 6 playable empires and 28 uniquely evolved minor civilizations
• Conduct research across 11 scientific categories, branching out into 150 individual advances
• Spaceship models consist of 8 classes that conform to a mission type
• 3D-rendered dual-warfare system; multiplayer action for up to 10 players in any 1 game

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001394H7Y
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 11, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,309 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Long ago the immortal Aeons presented the fledging races with the technology to travel the stars. Without pause for reasoning, vast fleets colonized the cosmos expanding the interstellar community until a great cataclysm occurred. Now the Aeon’s, a technologically superior race that once guided the lesser races, is all but lost to myth. Their colonies and technology lie beyond reach--scattered throughout the galaxy, like so many stars. Only fading memories recall the cause of the Aeons downfall and the loss of the star-gates that ended the first Galactic War. Devoid of the means to navigate the stars, the empires of the six major races began to look inwards as communication between worlds was lost. From the depths of the abyss, the long forgotten desire for exploration and conquest calls out once again. For it would only be a matter of time before each race would recover the knowledge to rebuild their fleets, reawaken their desire to explore, rekindle their need to expand, and return to warring ways.

As the six galactic empires make ready for the arduous struggle ahead, all manner of citizens are rallied to the cause. Scouting expeditions leave the safety of their stellar berths seeking out potential systems ripe for colonization. Close behind terra-forming ships prepare planets for swelling populations. Throughout countless shipyards powerful battle-fleets are forged from newly acquired resources, ready to face the threats that emerge with every cycle of the sun. A new age has arrived.

The Age of Immortals has descended upon the fledging empires of the known galaxy. Will you dominate or be destroyed?

Features:

• Colossal galactic map: explore the vastness of a fully populated macrocosm, teeming with up to 5,000 stars of varying configurations.
• Encounter the interstellar communities of six playable empires and 28 uniquely evolved minor civilizations.
• Vast scientific multi-nodal research tree: conduct research across 11 scientific categories, branching out into 150 individual advances.
• Customize ship construction: spaceship models consist of eight classes that conform to a mission type--exploration, reconnaissance, defensive patrolling, fleet interdiction, and planetary invasion.
• 3D-rendered dual-warfare system: view massive 3D-rendered space battles between turns, through an action camera, and adjust your strategy based on the outcomes of the space battles.
• Multiplayer action: Invite up to 10 players to play in any one game. Create attributes to ensure that no two sides play with identical races.

Product Description

Product InformationLong ago the immortal Aeons presented the fledging races with the technology totravel the stars. Without pause for reasoning vast fleets colonized the cosmosexpanding the interstellar community until a great cataclysm occurred. Now theAeon’s a technologically superior race that once guided the lesser races isall but lost to myth. Their colonies and technology lie beyond reach--scatteredthroughout the galaxy like so many stars. Only fading memories recall the causeof the Aeons downfall and the loss of the star-gates that ended the firstGalactic War. Devoid of the means to navigate the stars the empires of the sixmajor races began to look inwards as communication between worlds was lost. Fromthe depths of the abyss the long forgotten desire for exploration and conquestcalls out once again. For it would only be a matter of time before each racewould recover the knowledge to rebuild their fleets reawaken their desire toexplore rekindle their need to expand and return to warring ways.As the six galactic empires make ready for the arduous struggle ahead allmanner of citizens are rallied to the cause. Scouting expeditions leave thesafety of their stellar berths seeking out potential systems ripe forcolonization. Close behind terra-forming ships prepare planets for swellingpopulations. Throughout countless shipyards powerful battle-fleets are forgedfrom newly acquired resources ready to face the threats that emerge with everycycle of the sun. A new age has arrived.The Age of Immortals has descended upon the fledging empires of the knowngalaxy. Will you dominate or be destroyed?Product Features Colossal galactic map: explore the vastness of a fully populated macrocosm teeming with up to 5000 stars of varying configurations. Encounter the interstellar communities of six playable empires and 28 uniquely evolved minor civilizations. Vast scientific multi-nodal research

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Unpolished, nothing new, March 19, 2008

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J. Durheim "Dark Horse" (Rochester, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lost Empire: Immortal (Video Game)

I recently bought this game because I had a gift card burning a hole in my wallet. Hadn't heard much about it, but had played other Paradox produced games before, was surprised it was only $30 for a new release.

Quickly discovered why, this game was released too soon, it's extremely buggy out of the box. I spent 4 hours trying to resolve crashes before even getting to play my first game. Other bugs I've encountered during the game range from annoyances to major problems (ship building bugs where ships you've spent resources on won't actually be created construction is done). I've only played for a few days, so this is a preliminary review.

The interface is reasonably good, but much of the implementation is non-intuitive. This just don't happen the way you would expect them (for example you need to have all the resources for ship before construction will even start, and they're consumed immediately), the help menus are lacking and the tutorial is rather short.

The graphics themselves, although not a key need for a 4X game, are still outdated compared to other recent 4X games that have been released. There doesn't seem to be very much of a cohesive storyline, I've put quite a few hours in and had relatively little if any plot involvement in the story game.

The galaxy does have a very large scope, with up to 5000 systems, but colonization is also done at a system level, and not by an individual planet level as many other 4X space games, although the up to 28 minor races (which have larger and better roles than others I've played) and 10 major races at once is on the high end.

Planetary construction is extremely simplistic, no choosing what buildings to create, you just choose one of 8 "types" for that system to be, which vary the maximum number of 5 different building types, construction is done automatically given enough resources.

Ship Building is on par with Space Empires IV, there are a number of classes of ship of roughly fixed size which have a number of slots, pretty standard stuff here.

One good new feature is "Leaders" which can develop their skills in 5 areas and then take on one of 10 roles (or spend a turn increasing their skills), based on their role and skill levels they provide empire wide bonuses. This is something that I wish would have been expanded on more.

I haven't made it into much combat, but there is a 3d-rendering engine to show replays of battles that shows potential, but even if this were a great feature I wouldn't think it enough to overcome many of the other shortcomings.

Overall I've played a lot of 4X space building games, Lost Empire: Immortals doesn't bring anything groundbreaking to the table, most features are on par or below par compared to other games released in the last few years. If you're a big fan of 4X, could be an enjoyable game, I would wait awhile for some of the more major bugs to be worked out, but based on my experiences so far, I would consider games like Space Empires IV (4) Gold, Galactic Civilizations II Gold and even back to Imperium Galactica 2: Alliances as better games.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars quality conscience, April 30, 2009

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P. Curcio "quality conscience" (Mount Vernon, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lost Empire: Immortal (Video Game)

I agree with another reviewer that the game has bugs out of the box that take hours to overcome. I will not recommend this game to anyone.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NO WINDOWS 7 !!!!!!, May 12, 2011

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Serena Vachon - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Lost Empire: Immortal (Video Game)

I assumed (we all know, yes,,,)that since it was for vista that it would work on 7, it does not, no matter what it does not. I tried running on a virtual xp box but the video memory requirement is 512MB (huge!) and the max you can allocate for a vm is 128.

I could never even got the game to start, I have a $10.00 coaster. If you are running windows 7, DO NOT BUY!

**UPDATE** 22May11 After several days of putzing about with it, I did get it to work. Not for the novice.

Base System - Windows 7 Ent x64. Phemon Quad 4 motherboard w/AMD64 Quad Processor. 8 GB Ram. NVidia GeForce GTX 9800 w/512 RAM. This is not a weak machine.

1. Install .Net Framework 4.0
2. Install Direct X 11.0
3. Install Latest MS XNA Framework
4. Ensure all C++ distributables are up to date (Windows Update)
5. Install the game
6. Download and install patches for the game 1.02 through 1.08
7. Set the Compatibility Mode for the start icon to the following (right click, properties):
_A. Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3.
_B. Disable visual themes.
_C. Disable desktop composition.
_D. Disable display scaling on high DPI settings
_E. Run this program as administrator.
8. Start the game.

I still leave one star as it took me so long (literally hours) to get it to work.