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Copyright: © 1990 Electronic Arts, Inc. (68 Titles)
Platform: DOS
Language:  English
Version: 1.0
Filesize: 674 KB
Genre(s): Action Adventure RPG Strategy
Screenshots: 1
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Hard Nova is an overlooked epic sci-fi RPG that is a follow-up of sorts to the excellent Sentinel Worlds. Every aspect of the game is a vast improvement over its predecessor, the most important one being even more freedom: you are no longer a Federation officer but a free-wheeling mercenary (either male or female) who takes on increasingly difficult missions for fun and profit. The wide variety of gameplay styles that made Sentinel Worlds a classic is even more distinctive in Hard Nova: the moving dots that represent NPCs in the overhead exploration view of Sentinel Worlds has been replaced with distinct characters (although they still look somewhat like bigger dots), each with his or her own portrait that pops up with you strike a conversation. The static topological map of planets (from which you select landing site) is gone: you now pilot your spacecraft over a planet's surface from a neat isometric 3D view, which requires you to pay attention to obstacles such as tall mountains, as well as collision with other ships. While Hard Nova retains all the strengths of its predecessor and features numerous improvements, it also unfortunately retains most weaknesses, some of which are amplified. The worst offender of these is the fact that you cannot dismiss a character that you added to your party. In Sentinel Worlds, this limitation made sense, as you were commanding a crew of loyal space police. In Hard Nova, however, you hire fellow mercenaries to the team, only to find out later that they really exist to help you in one mission and have little use otherwise. Since you cannot dismiss anyone, this means that you must decide carefully on what characters are to be developed in which skills. Fortunately, all characters can gain experience points in many ways, especially in ground missions, so that eventually even the most inept party member can prove indispensable in the later stages of the game. With interesting varieties of gameplay, colorful characters, and interesting missions and items to find and use, Hard Nova is in many ways a better game than the already excellent Sentinel Worlds. A must-play for all sci-fi fans!

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Zip Contents: (hard-nova.zip) 689922 bytes
AMS.CFG ARIE.OUT ARIE.PLA BLUMARBL.DAT BLUMARBL.TIL BRIKMISC.DAT BRIKMISC.TIL CASC.PLA CASINO.EXE CIBE.OUT CIBE.PLA CLOU.OUT DUME.EXE GRAFX.EXE HARDGAME.DAT HARDGAME.NEW HARDHARD.EXE HARDNOVA.BAT HOLB.OUT HOLB.PLA INDOOR.EXE INDOOR.SCR INDOOR.TIL ITEM.DAT MAST.OUT MAST.PLA MCGA.PAL MERC.EXE METLGRID.DAT METLGRID.TIL NARR.DAT NOVAWIN3.ICO ORBIT.EXE ORBIT.SCR ORBOFX.DAT OUTDESE.TIL OUTDOOR.EXE OUTDOOR.SCR OUTGASS.TIL OUTLUNA.TIL OUTMETH.TIL OUTSHIPS.TIL OUTSNOW.TIL PAK88.PIC PLAT.OUT ROUY.OUT ROUY.PLA SCOM.DAT SHIP.PLA SPACE.EXE SPACE.SCR SPASHIPS.TIL STARGATE.SCR STARK1.BIN STARK2.BIN STARK3.BIN STARK4.BIN STARK5.BIN STARS.PIC STATION.EXE TALK.DAT TIKO.OUT TIKO.PLA TUBETUNL.DAT TUBETUNL.TIL TYPHANIM.SCR TYPHBOTM.SCR TYPHTOP1.SCR VARA.OUT VARA.PLA VIEW.DAT VIEWER.EXE WARHUB.EXE ZUMA6.EXE

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