AI War 6.0 Trailer (Also Featuring Ancient Shadows)

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Original: http://christophermpark.blogspot.com/2012/10/ai-war-60-trailer-also-featuring.html


Version 6.0 of the cult classic strategy game AI War: Fleet Command arrives this Friday the 19th, along with its fourth expansion: Ancient Shadows.  One of the best-reviewed PC games of 2009, AI War has continued to grow each year with new expansions, new free content, and continual refinements to the deep strategic gameplay it already boasted.

Selected Reviews

AI War breaks most of the genre's rules.  Which is precisely why it's incredible... This    out-of-the-blue one-man passion project is one of this year's finest strategy games.
- Alec Meer, PC Gamer UK, November 2009
It's a balancing act, with your own strength on one side, and the   AI's opinion of you on the other. Piss it off before you're ready to   face it, and you're going to get squashed.  That moment, when you're   finally in a position to turn the tables, is about as glorious as gaming   gets.
- Phill Cameron, Eurogamer, February 2011

I think I've stumbled across this year's Really New Thing. There's a lot of 2009 to go, but I'll be surprised if     anyone else twists the RTS formula this dramatically and this effectively. And I'm hoping it'll be the     Next Big Thing, because it's big, different, entirely unprecedented and an exciting way to play an RTS.
- Rush, Boom, Turtle: And Now for Something Completely Different, by Tom Chick (Crispy Gamer)

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More About Ancient Shadows

Not Even The Machine Sees All...

Introducing Champions: These modular behemoths can be  upgraded, gain EXP, and lend powerful aid to your main forces.  But  champions possess a unique power that sets them even further apart from  other units: they can explore entirely new parts of  the galaxy where the AI cannot reach.  Splinter factions of humans,  zenith, neinzul, and spire all dwell in those backwater nebulae.  Some  are  hiding.  Some are plotting.  Some have gone totally insane.  It is  there, in the shadows, that your champion can find relics from the  ancient race which constructed it.  What power awaits?  At what cost?

Key Features:
* A whole new kind of human player.  It's possible to control champions alongside your main fleet, or to have a friend or family member control just one single massive ship.
* Several new sub-races dwelling in the backwater parts of the galaxy for your champions to interact with.
* Modular fortresses.
* 9 new bonus ship classes.
* 3 core AI guard posts and one new minor faction.
* 2 new AI types.
* 2 new map types.
* 98 minutes of awesome new music by Pablo Vega.

For the release notes from version 5.0 to 6.0 (warning: 65k+ words!): http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Current_Post-5.000_Beta

[Kahuna]

Epic. The music fit perfectly.

[Volatar]

Excuse me while I share this on all my forums and social networks.

This is the best trailer for the game yet.

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All thanks to Kevin Harland on putting the trailer together!

[Oralordos]

I will have to agree with this being the best AI War trailer yet.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Best AI War trailer yet indeed. It gave me goose bumps watching and listening to it. Pablo has outdone himself with the music and we have only heard bits and pieces of it too.

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, I guess that's the one thing really missing from the trailer: the words "Pablo Vega Is Awesome"

But it's ok, the music already tells you that.

[Volatar]

Yea, I guess that's the one thing really missing from the trailer: the words "Pablo Vega Is Awesome"

But it's ok, the music already tells you that.

It whispers it into our subconscious?

I knew Pablo was good, but I didn't know he was THAT good.

 

[Oralordos]

So that's what those whispers say in Fire and Iron from Zenith!

[wyvern83]

Very nice and well put together. I liked the zoom in transition effect from galaxy map to planet map in particular and the music was great and a great fit.

[chemical_art]

Excellent trailer.

I was going to nit pick you in saying the most unique feature of Ai War (in my opinion), the AIP, is not really mentioned.

However, I couldn't find a way to get that in the short time you have for a trailer.

[Volatar]

I posted it to /r/games and /r/indiegaming.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/11n3vl/ai_war_fleet_command_is_still_going_strong_after/

http://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/11n4rk/ai_war_fleet_command_is_still_going_strong_after/

[Coppermantis]

I agree with Chemical_Art that perhaps the AIP mechanic should have been mentioned somehow, but it doesn't matter too much. Great trailer, would have hooked me if I wasn't already playing.

[doctorfrog]

Pretty dramatic trailer. I like it.

[Faulty Logic]

I am suddenly filled with a desire to buy AI War.
...and I already own the game.