• Take control of your world by hacking mechanical devices, commandeering security turrets and crafting unique items critical to your very survival.
  
• Upgrade your weapons with ionic gels, explosives and toxins to customize them to the enemy and environment.
  
• Genetically modify your body through dozens of Plasmid Stations scattered throughout the city, empowering you with fantastic and often grotesque abilities.
  
• Explore a living world powered by Ecological A.I., where the inhabitants have interesting and consequential relationships with one another that impact your gameplay experience.
  
• Experience truly next generation graphics that vividly illustrate the forlorn art deco city, highlighted by the most detailed and realistic water effects ever developed in a video game.
  
• Make meaningful choices and mature decisions, ultimately culminating in the grand question: do you exploit the innocent survivors of Rapture...or save them?
  

Hey you! Space Trader is now accepting Pre-Orders! Start playing immediately after you pre-order!

Space Trader has a brand new website! Chat with other players, learn more about the game, and see videos! Check it out!

Space Trader is the game where you challenge your friends, foes, and yourself in a bid to becomes the wealthiest Trader in space! Travel between exotic destinations buying and selling commodities, while avoiding the government that's trying to tax your way of life. Hunt down criminals to collect bounty rewards, or go take jobs from crime bosses to earn money under the table. Explore locations in search of hidden bonuses and other secrets! 8 Players can compete together and have your stats tracked in our online scoreboard.

Get into the game!

For more details or to start playing immediately, go to the Space Trader website and sign up for the beta. If you're a member of The Great Games Experiment, you're approved and can get into the game right away!

- What is it?

- What is it... not?

• It's not retro or a remake. No "classic" control or feel.
  
• It's not all about jumping down on enemies and collecting coins or rings. No random items floating around. It tries to make the player feel inside a (somewhat) coherent world.
  
• The objective of the game is not get to the end of the level to find out the princess is in another castle. As the story develops, the player will have to adapt to each plot-driven situation.
  
• There's no destined all-good hero trying to save the world. You control a group of characters that have their personalities, lives, and motivations.
  

- Features?

• High-res 32bit, hardware accelerated graphics (supporting OpenGL & DirectX currently; probly DX support will be discontinued).
  
• VoiD Engine scripting language for developing customizable campaigns.
  
• Deep immersion in the sci-fi world of Void through ingame narrative, playable cutscenes, "alive" game maps and npcs...
  
• Up to 5 selectable characters at the same time in the player party.
  
• Fast paced control system, designed for heavy action scenes.
  
• Vehicles, some controlable by the player.
  
• Levelling system for characters. Character classes & subclasses, skills (including some kind of magic), buyable equipment, award system a la Tactics Ogre...
  
• Fluid character animation, thanks to VoiD Engine 2D Skeletal Animation System.
  
• Ambient, weather and cinematic effects (graphic effects via shaders, when available).
  
• Lots of developer love :)
  

- Personal note

• Variable identity outcomes - your choices throughout the game determine your former identity from a list of experimental subjects.
  


• Lifelike, fluid animation with 24 powerful combat maneuvers.
  


• Interactive backgrounds - from ground-to-air weapons, to monitors and projectile-reflective surfaces.
  


• 8-channel digital sound effects, cued by distance and camera location.
  


• 3-D, texture-mapped synthetic actors whose images actually show the injuries suffered in combat.
  


• Multiple camera angles and beautifully rendered alien environments.
  


• 22 voice actors!
  


• Believed to have the first single-skin, fully texture mapped, skeleton-based characters ever seen in gaming.
  

• Innovative Command System menu that integrates troop and resource management for full control from within your vehicle.
  
• 3-D topographical radar displays your base location, unit placement, field of vision and enemy position.
  
• Nav Beacon Cameras that can be set up for for surveilance purposes or to stage attacks.
  
• Scrap scavengers, Unit-building factories, Tanks, Solar arrays, gun towers, resource meters, numerous weaponry options that can be balanced according to your resources.
  

• Single player campaign entirely in the digital realm (excepting some cutscenes) immersing you into story-driven, first-person action.
  


• As Jet Bradley you will combat digital opponents using guns, rods, grenades, missiles, and the iconic TRON disc, gaining abilities and new weapons as you overcome various challenges to go deeper into the system.
  


• Defrag and disinfect your inventory or live with the unpleasant consequences (You're in a computer after all!)
  


• Intense action, intense and deadly battles, and the trademark high-speed light cycle races, featuring a new light cycle design by Syd Mead, who developed the cycles for the original film.
  


• Musical score by Wendy Carlos, the composer of the original Tron film score.
  


• Vocal performers include Bruce Boxleitner, Rebecca Romijn, Ken Boynton, Cindy Morgan and many more, and featuring Jason Cottle as the voice of Jet Bradley.
  


• Multiplayer includes some campaign scenarios and light cycle mode.
  


• Rendered with the Lithtech Triton engine (specially enhanced version of their Jupiter engine)
  

• Netplay! You can now engage in Super Melee over the Internet.
  
• Key configuration is now entirely in-game.
  
• UQM now compiles and runs on 64-bit systems.
  

• Challenging campaigns as well as varied multiplayer modes.
  


• 3-D topographical radar system which, as in Battlezone, is linked to the Command Interface system.
  


• The HUD displays icons that further simplify the tasks of monitoring units and resources.
  


• Meters allow you to observe resource and unit development progress at a glance.
  


• Units under your command can be tasked individually or linked together into groups that can be hot-keyed for quick response.
  


• Units can be assigned to the control of allied players in multiplayer!
  

• Elements of the typical "point and click" games, with puzzle and mystery solving, plus some 3rd person action such as shooting.
  


• As a Blade Runner you have access to advanced technologies such as the Voight-Kampff test, the Esper and the KIA.
  


• Greatly enriched with numerous 3d atmospheres, many adapted from the film, and a number of characters from the original film.
  


• Musical score includes film themes by Vangelis as well as original tracks composed for the game.
  


• Sumptuous dramatic cutscenes rivaling any computer animations of their time.
  


• Alternate endings (4) based upon your paths, as well as some variations in storyline in this single player adventure with "real-time" gameplay.
  

Introduction

Features

Situation

• First person shooter, but with some third person actions, and even some RPG aspects.
  


• Over 30 levels, split into checkpoints.
  


• High quality musical soundtrack befitting the movie tie-in.
  


• Player eventually acquires "eye shine", a vision enhancement that becomes very useful in the often dark environments.
  


• Tied to the movie not only be relating to the story and atmosphere, but including movie star vocal talents such as Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser as Johns, Kirsten Lahman as Shirah, Willis Burks II as Pope Joe, and Ron Perlman as Jagger Vance.
  


• Among the first games to use "normal mapping".
  


• Fight with melee weapons, special moves, pistols, rifles, shotguns, and more, although by default, guards weapons are DNA coded.
  


• Single Player campaign only.
  

• Command your squads in a variety of formations, across rugged terrain, and to victory in several different mission objectives.
  


• Focus on the strategy and action. Ground Control eliminates many of the tedious aspects of typical RTS games and focuses its gameplay on tactics, strategy, and the art of battle.
  


• Choose your troops. Various types of tanks, hover bikes, airplanes, and soldiers will be at your disposal, delivered to the battlefield by orbital dropships. However once you are in battle you won't be able to make more, so proper troop selection will be key to success.
  


• Arm your troops. Each unit type has special weapons, abilities, and armor. Players can choose to custom fit each unit or let the game auto-select the proper load out for each mission. Special equipment can include medikits, repair kits, image intensifiers, afterburners, various stationary turrets, or repair stations. Most specials can usually be used two or three times during a level, although the most powerful special abilities, such as the bomber's tactical nuclear warhead, are limited to a single use.
  


• Advanced artificial intelligence makes your troops and your enemy's troops act and fight realistically.
  


• A gripping story line will unfold as you command your troops through 30 single-player missions.
  


• Take the battle online. Battle your friends or enemies via the Internet or LAN in traditional RTS multiplay, as well as in multiplayer modes new to the RTS genre.
  


• Control the camera to get a better view of the action. A free-floating camera allows you to zoom in and out and view the action from any angle.
  


• Ground Control completely does away with resource and economic management, expanding the conventional focus from real-time strategy into real-time tactical combat.
  


• Ultra high quality 16Bit textures and amazingly detailed units and buildings. Ground Control employed relatively new 'Rendering Distance' code features that control the level of polygons you can see by the distance at which they are. A character seen at great distance may consist of only a few polygons, but zooming in reveals gorgeous detail.
  


• Hands-on tutorial gets you up to speed for your role as a battlefield commander by tasking you with various and comprehensive objectives and enemy engagements.