Pandora: First Contact

Key Features:

• Explore a new world harboring a variety of eco-regions, from the frozen ice lands of the north, to vast deserts and lush tropical forests in the south.
• Survive encounters with the planet's dangerous wild life. Deadly swarms walk the lands and agile predators fly in the skies. There is even talk of a giant creature in the oceans.
• Live in harmony with nature or use it to further your cause. The indigenous life will react to your actions and treat you accordingly.
• Discover ruins and artifacts, the relics of an ancient alien civilization long forgotten that can give you an edge against the planet life and other rivaling factions.
• Found new cities to expand the borders of your empire. Manage cities by adjusting the tax rate, choosing production and assigning colonists to jobs.
• Operate a fully globalized and pooled resource and growth system. Specialize one city to harvest minerals while churning out units in another.
• Adapt your empire to pressing demand. Your colonists will migrate between cities based on factors such as pollution and living space.
• Shape the landscape with terraforming, construct farms, mines, forts, and other improvements to increase the productivity of your colonies or to fortify positions.
• Progress through a vast randomized research tree spanning dozens of technologies providing operations, buildings, units, weapons, and more.
• Negotiate trade and research pacts with other factions for mutual benefits. Forge alliances to stand united against common foes.
• Design your own units by choosing from a range of different classes, armors, weapons, and devices to maximize the strength of your forces.
• Command vast armies across the battlefield against enemy factions, making use of the variety of terrain types to gain an advantage.
• Unleash hell on your opponents with powerful military operations, ranging from drop pods behind enemy lines to black hole generators eradicating entire landscapes.
• Prove yourself in multiplayer with friends or strangers and discover entirely new strategies.
• Customize your experience through easily moddable XML data and well-known image and audio formats.