Birth Of The Federation "Birth Of The Federation" is an excellent strategic focus on the popular video game universe "
Star Trek: The Next Generation" . It is not just another game that puts us on the bridge of the famous "Enterprise", such as the good old "
The Rebel Universe," but rather an interesting management simulation in which we must guide the fortunes of a the greatest civilizations of the "Alpha Quadrant." The gameplay is basically to manage and develop all aspects of our space empire up to extend its dominance over others. For this objective, we will be forced to use any means at our disposal to realizing time to time when to resort to brute force, the more cautious diplomacy or the more insidious espionage. At the beginning of the game we are asked to configure some details of the game: the shape and size of the galaxy within which the story will develop, the technological level of the civilizations involved, the general difficulty, the number of minor races, the conditions for victory (winning the majority of star systems or revenge on enemies), the mode of combat, the presence or absence of random events and the choice that we want to rule the empire. From this point of view of the similarities with "Master of Orion II
, one of the most important cornerstones of the genre, do not count. As mentioned above, the game allows us to select one of the five most influential civilizations in the Milky Way space, each of these has both advantages and disadvantages that offers an innate ability "the United Federation of Planets" is particularly expert in 'art of diplomacy, the' Klingon Empire "has an incomparable wit military domination of the Romulan Star has no rival in the Intelligence and espionage, the Ferengi Alliance is no different with regard to economy and trade as the union Cardiassiana, finally, is particularly efficient in all production processes.
"Birth Of The Federation offers a wide freedom of action, so nothing prevents us from giving birth to an empire like that of the ruthless and bloodthirsty Klingon rather than a more peace and democracy on the model of the Federation. The planets of the Galaxy are also home to the races, so to speak, children: Andorians, Bejoriani, Vulcans and Benzie. These react in an unpredictable way each time it violated their space, though it is, in most cases it will be possible to establish diplomatic relations and if it were not we would have a pretext to annex roughly to our empire. Diplomacy and espionage are very important in "Birth of the Federation", especially to avoid the risk of finding ourselves surrounded by enemies, in this view is not uncommon to conclude a trade pact with a particular people and then secretly ally with his nemesis . The game begins at the dawn of the Space Age, a time when our kingdom is limited to our native world and un'acerba technology curve, and slowly you see the evolution of all cultures involved. The gameplay is divided into a series of shifts that we see as opposed to our competitors, in each round we explore the neighboring stars, colonize new worlds, accumulate resources, produce technological breakthroughs we fight, we enter into military and economic agreements, and above all invest in research and technology. The research covers six areas of knowledge: computer, energy, propulsion, weapons, biotechnology and construction, of course we are free to concentrate on only some of them, thus neglecting other, as we were to adopt a policy of expansion rather than consolidation of our domains.
The battles can be handled in two ways: manually, ie through a series of orders (evasive maneuvers, concentrating fire on a particular target and activation of concealment) that determine the behavior of spacecraft involved in the conflict, or automatically, in which the initiative is left to individual commanders who govern them. The clashes, however, we are shown with a modern three-dimensional representation. As mentioned above, the game also includes random events, in particular: the spatial anomalies, the crystalline entities and the Borg, the latter particularly devastating, a real scourge, if not thwarted from the outset and left to absorb and worlds produce their cubes. "Birth Of The Federation has also some great audio / visual, different from the other selectable for each civilization, which is undoubtedly the merit of being able to perfectly recreate the beautiful sci-fi atmosphere that has always characterized the series. Summing up, "BOTF" is a strategic game definitely well put together that can arouse the interest of fans of the genre as well as to meet the needs of enthusiasts of this legendary brand. Multi-language edition: Inglese and Deutsch. Links:
