Take 2 announces Space Colony for PC

Nathan writes "Take 2/Gathering and Firefly Studios have announced Space Colony, a new PC game allowing gamers to run a Space Colony, with the most dysfunctional crew ever assembled, whilst fighting off aliens and attempting to make a profit. The game promises a fresh style of gameplay, and should hit the retail market around September this year."

That's right...

[Dr. Bent]

...aim for September and you might make it by Christmas. I wonder what percentage of PC games actually stay on schedule? 20%? 10%?

My colony will be called...

[Joe the Lesser]

CROATOAN

First screenshot of game.

[simoniker]

Here's the first screenshot [bluesnews.com]. The game's developed by Firefly, who are made of ex-Impressions developers - the Impressions people's resume [ign.com] includes Zeus, Pharoah, Caesar, and Great Cthulhu. OK, all except that last one.

Re:First screenshot of game.

[Crockerboy]

That screenshot looks like starcraft and the sims had a love child.

Finally - The answer!!

[Drunken_Jackass]

Step 1. Assemble disfunctional Crew
Step 2. Fight off aliens
Setp 3. Profit!!!

Yipee!!

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Interesting...

[Drakin]

Looks like one game I'll look for when it comes out.
I like the notion of having to run a disfuntional group... makes things so much more interesting

Why is this news?

[bmd3k]

Can somebody explain why this deserves a post to /.? Don't companies announce new games all the time? And don't most of those new games just flop?

Or does everybody know something about this that I don't?

I apologize for whining. But I don't want to see this section get trampled with unnecessary and lame game announcements. I figure that since this is a relatively new section some offtopic input isn't completely destructive.

The Sims: Spaced Out

[Elwood P Dowd]

That looks like a really lame Sims clone. $5 bargain bin software.

Re:The Sims: Spaced Out

[skwirlmaster]

Looks can be deceiving... Alpha Centauri looks like dogfood the second time around, but I still had many an enjoyable experiences with it (and the expansion). And I still play Diablo II (Looks almost exactly D1), and starcraft... Their graphics are far from top of the line, it is the play value that matters, not the visual polish... And I'm sure everyone has at least one game they got/played that looked great, but was terrible to play.

Re:The Sims: Spaced Out

[Elwood P Dowd]

Well. The main reason that I said that is that from the screenshot you can tell it's a Sims clone, and I was never a big fan of the Sims. It's not the visual polish that seems bad, but rather the gameplay that would go along with it.

And, of course, it could play totally differently than I'm imagining. Still.

Startopia

[Allison Geode]

this sound rather similar to a game that already exists, called "startopia," which was made by Mucky Foot. great game, it played similar to dungeon keeper, in ways.. but on a donut-shaped space colony.