Star Control: Origins Download PC

Developer: Stardock Entertainment

Release date: 2018

Platform: Windows (PC)

Genre: Adventure

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Star Control: Origins is an action-adventure game developed and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, released September 20, 2018.

Gameplay

Star Control: Origins follows the template of previous Star Control games as an action-adventure game. As with previous Star Control titles, Origins combines dialog, diplomacy with alien races, planetary exploration, and ship-to-ship space battles. The one-on-one "Fleet Battles" take place in a 2D top-down arena, with each type of ship having two different abilities. Through the game's story, characters provide quests that direct the player to explore different places in the galaxy. Players can send a planetary lander to explore planets and gather resources, and the game adds a new planetary-landing minigame. The game allows players to upgrade their ships, including abilities that automate combat, planetary resource-gathering, and piloting between destinations. There is also a Fleet Battles multiplayer mode, which can be played against other people online, or against an AI opponent.

Setting

Star Control: Origins is intended as a prequel to the previous Star Control games, taking place in the same multiverse, decades before the events of the original series. The game begins in the year 2086, where the human space agency Star Control launches Earth's first interstellar-capable ship to investigate an alien distress signal. The player assumes the role of the captain of that ship.

Development

In 2013, Atari filed for bankruptcy, and auctioned its assets in the dormant Star Control franchise. That summer, Stardock became the highest bidder on the "Star Control" trademark and the copyright in the original material of Star Control 3, though Atari's assets did not include the copyright to other games in the franchise.

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In 2014, Stardock announced they would create Star Control: Origins as a prequel, taking place 43 years before the events of Star Control II. CEO Brad Wardell sought to involve the series creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III, unsuccessfully. Wardell reported that the original developers "cannot be officially involved" due to their contracts with Activision, but stated "we'll be talking to Paul and Fred as we go forward" so that the game can reflect their unofficial wishes. Stardock announced its plans to build the game using the Nitrous Engine, with the style of writing and visual art following the template of Star Control II. The Nitrous engine supports multi-core processing.

In 2016, Stardock released a teaser for the new game, announcing the game's new starting date of 2086, with plans to mirror Star Control II's gameplay and hire one of the classic game's composers for the soundtrack. By 2017, they announced delays and changes in plans, forcing them to cancel their planned Defense of the Ancients-style combat system, while still allowing players to play a public beta of their one-on-one Super Melee system in November. They also announced ways that this game would be differentiated from Star Control II, abandoning any time limit while providing modding tools and a captain's log.

The reported budget for Star Control: Origins was $10 million, with additional costs for marketing and promotion.

Intellectual property

Ownership

Both Star Control and Star Control II were created by Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford with their Toys for Bob studio in 1990 and 1992, respectively, with Accolade publishing the titles. Star Control II was critically acclaimed among the best games of all time, with high demand for a sequel.

In the mid-1990s, Reiche and Ford turned down Accolade's offer to develop Star Control 3, due to the difficult budget they had operated under with the first two games. Accolade instead hired Legend Entertainment to complete the title, released in 1996. Accolade was acquired by Infogrames Entertainment in 1999, and Infogrames rebranded as Atari, SA soon after.

Reiche retained copyrights in the first two games. This gave them the right to release the source code for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer version of the game under an open source license, allowing the fan community to port the game to newer platforms. Since Accolade still owned the "Star Control" trademark, this open source remake was released as The Ur-Quan Masters, the subtitle of Star Control II, to avoid a trademark dispute.

Atari filed for bankruptcy in 2013, leading to a bankruptcy auction for all of their assets. Stardock purchased Atari's Star Control assets, listed as the "Star Control" trademark and copyright in any original material for Star Control 3. Stardock CEO Brad Wardell stated their intent was to make another Star Control game with the purchase, but recognized the difficulties related to intellectual property (IP), as Atari did not own the copyright to the first two games, and that use of any such copyright would need Reiche and Ford's approval.

Reception

Star Control: Origins has a "generally favorable" Metacritic score of 76. Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of Zero Punctuation ranked it 4th on his list of the Top 5 Best Games of 2018. IGN's Dan Stapleton gave Star Control: Origins a review score of 6.9/10 praising the game's combat system and humorous dialogue, but criticizing the repetitive gameplay of planetary resource gathering. This was echoed by PC Gamer's Ian Birnbaum, who gave Star Control: Origins a review score of 60/100 criticizing the game's depth and the amount of grinding in gathering resources on planets, while still praising the humor in the dialog. Richard Corbett of PC Gamer would later acknowledge issues with the game's mechanics, while still praising Origins as his favorite game story in 2018. GameSpot's David Wildgoose rated the game at 6/10, stating "at its best, Star Control: Origins urges you to poke and prod into every corner of its intimidatingly vast galaxy, searching out ancient secrets and pun-filled absurdities. At its worst, it drags you through mediocre arcade sequences and generic grind." Stardock reports that Star Control: Origins received 10,000 pre-orders, leading to sales of 50,000 copies after one week of distribution.