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Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game. You pilot spacecraft, flying in a team with other players, defending and attacking sectors in space. Your team is led by a commander, who makes tactical decisions and invests in technology and bases. Flight and combat is done in first person view in a 3D environment, with a real-time, top-down view of your immediate surroundings available to aid you in navigating and making quick tactical decisions. | Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game. You pilot spacecraft, flying in a team with other players, defending and attacking sectors in space. Your team is led by a commander, who makes tactical decisions and invests in technology and bases. Flight and combat is done in first person view in a 3D environment, with a real-time, top-down 'Command view' of your immediate surroundings also available to aid you in navigating and making quick tactical decisions. | ||
On the plus side, Allegiance is full of interesting ways to turn space-ships into debris. Depending on the technology path your commander has chosen | While this sounds simple enough Allegiance is anything but an easy game to learn even with its relatively basic control scheme and its simplified flight model. Allegiance is about tactics and co-ordination; knowing your ordnance and, most importantly, knowing where to be and what you should be doing there. Given the enormous amount of factors to reckon with, it takes the average player somewhere between 3 and 6 months to firmly grasp the basics. | ||
On the plus side, Allegiance is full of interesting ways to turn space-ships into debris. Depending on the technology path your commander has chosen you might fly stealthcraft, hiding and sniping at your unsuspecting enemies from far away. You might fly the interceptor, the king of short-range dogfights. Perhaps you might pilot a bomber, with other players manning the anti-fighter turrets on your ship. Or you could be the infinitely useful scout that spots enemy movements, repairs friendly vessels and can even destroy an entire bomb-run with a well-timed minefield. | |||
There are, on average, about thirty people participating in a game of Allegiance. A typical game lasts between thirty and forty-five minutes, although games of more than 2 hours in length are not uncommon. | There are, on average, about thirty people participating in a game of Allegiance. A typical game lasts between thirty and forty-five minutes, although games of more than 2 hours in length are not uncommon. | ||
Screenshots ( check [http://www.freeallegiance.org/screenshots/ this] page for more): | '''Videos''': | ||
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBfcfLmyKM&NR The Allegiance Promo video on YouTube] | |||
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ__4qWLO7E Liquidfire's dogfighting on YouTube] | |||
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7969318351120959912& InfinityX's dogfighting on Google Video] | |||
'''Screenshots''' ( check [http://www.freeallegiance.org/screenshots/ this] page for more): | |||
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<BR>[http://www.allegacademy.org/lessons/crashcourse.shtml The Crash Course at the Allegiance Academy] | <BR>[http://www.allegacademy.org/lessons/crashcourse.shtml The Crash Course at the Allegiance Academy] | ||
<BR>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(computer_game) Wikipedia article on Allegiance] | <BR>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(computer_game) Wikipedia article on Allegiance] | ||
==See Also== | |||
* [[Begin Playing]] – How to get Allegiance and join a game | |||
[[Category:Help - About The Game]] | [[Category:Help - About The Game]] | ||
Revision as of 10:33, 3 September 2007
Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game. You pilot spacecraft, flying in a team with other players, defending and attacking sectors in space. Your team is led by a commander, who makes tactical decisions and invests in technology and bases. Flight and combat is done in first person view in a 3D environment, with a real-time, top-down 'Command view' of your immediate surroundings also available to aid you in navigating and making quick tactical decisions.
While this sounds simple enough Allegiance is anything but an easy game to learn even with its relatively basic control scheme and its simplified flight model. Allegiance is about tactics and co-ordination; knowing your ordnance and, most importantly, knowing where to be and what you should be doing there. Given the enormous amount of factors to reckon with, it takes the average player somewhere between 3 and 6 months to firmly grasp the basics.
On the plus side, Allegiance is full of interesting ways to turn space-ships into debris. Depending on the technology path your commander has chosen you might fly stealthcraft, hiding and sniping at your unsuspecting enemies from far away. You might fly the interceptor, the king of short-range dogfights. Perhaps you might pilot a bomber, with other players manning the anti-fighter turrets on your ship. Or you could be the infinitely useful scout that spots enemy movements, repairs friendly vessels and can even destroy an entire bomb-run with a well-timed minefield.
There are, on average, about thirty people participating in a game of Allegiance. A typical game lasts between thirty and forty-five minutes, although games of more than 2 hours in length are not uncommon.
Videos:
- The Allegiance Promo video on YouTube
- Liquidfire's dogfighting on YouTube
- InfinityX's dogfighting on Google Video
Screenshots ( check this page for more):
| http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/4008/busykn6.th.jpg | http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/6796/figbbralephig1.th.jpg | http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/1253/baxtercw5.th.jpg |
|---|---|---|
| Things may get hectic | Fighter-bombers gathering | Capships 'rezzing' an aleph |
More information can be obtained (apart from in this knowledge base) at:
The Crash Course at the Allegiance Academy
Wikipedia article on Allegiance
See Also
- Begin Playing – How to get Allegiance and join a game
