PC/Mac Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

[Mike]

Fans of the space game genre haven't had much to cheer about in recent years, but Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is a game that any self-respecting space game fan needs to play. This gem of a space tactics offering is everything that fans of the genre have been waiting for, as it takes gorgeous, next-generation graphical technology and applies it to an exciting game about starship combat, rogue artificial intelligences, galaxy-spanning wormholes, and more.

In Nexus, you play as Marcus Cromwell, an already legendary figure employed by SpaceTech, one of the megacorporations that's colonized the galaxy. Put in charge of the frigate Stiletto, you must patrol the far corners of the solar system while on the lookout for rival corporations. However, that's just the tip of the iceberg regarding the plot, because before you know it, you'll be sucked into a galaxy-wide war between alien races and a lost remnant of humanity.

At first, Nexus looks a bit like Homeworld and Homeworld II in that you control a starship or a fleet of starships in interstellar combat. However, the key difference is that Nexus isn't a real-time strategy game, so there are no resources to gather or units to build, much like there are in the Homeworld games. That lets Nexus focus on its strength, which is starship combat that looks so good it's literally cinematic in nature...from the way your shields glow when they absorb an incoming energy beam to the manner in which a ship's thrusters fire to swing it about.
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[thething]

Mike... du wirst du nicht untreu werden

Nexus ist doch das vormalige "Imperium Galactica 3" und müsste schon längst draussen sein? Sieht auf jeden Fall geil ein

 

[Mike]

nee, ich werde garantiert nicht untreu. Ich warte an sich momentan darauf, dass X2 erstmal günstiger wird, das brauche ich auf jeden Fall noch.
Ansonsten kommt mir noch Age of Empires 3 ins Haus, wenns fertig ist.

 

[Achmed20]

krass! da lebt aber einer hinterm mond!
das game is schon seit monaten draussen

is ganz geil. hast max 4 oder 5 schiffe, taktik anteil is recht hoch, allerdinsg is das game auch kackschwer. ansonstens recht cooles space RTS. trotzdem is Homeworld hier nach wie vor mein favorit

was soll nexus mit X2 gemein haben? sind 2 total verschiedene games

 

[Mike]

das war der Release-Test, Achmed Das Game ist lt. Gamespot seit 3 Wochen draussen.
Naja, Nexus und X2 haben das SciFi Setting gemeinsam

 

[Achmed20]

echt? jetzt erst?
da war die "scene" aber schenll

 

[Mike]

Hier, Copy & Paste von Gamespot:
Release Date: 02/24/2005

 

[Caesar III]

sieht irgendwie aus wie das homeworld 2 interface von den farben und der schrift her ^^

aber sonst ziemlich geile screens.

spiele trotzdem lieber homeworld oder haegemonia.