Some chose to side with the Ur-Quans, others with you. There are many, many alien races for you to interact with, all of which are done with spoken dialog. There's even inertia in space, which can be a difficult, though interesting obstacle to have to work around. Or maybe the minerals showing up on your scans simply aren't worth it. Or maybe the gravity's too high, and sending down a Lander would simply use up too much fuel. Factors include the weather battering your Lander, or the heat, or earthquakes. You find worlds, scan them, and decide to send down a Lander or not. From there you move about the galaxy, traveling to any star you'd like (provided you have the fuel required for the round trip), and explore alien worlds trying to locate rare minerals to sell for money to buy more crew and upgrades. The game is simple enough you have a base of operations, which is just a star-base outside of enslaved Earth, where you can get more crew, repair your ship, its Landers and it's shuttles. You're going to need resources, allies, upgrades and all sorts of things in order to take back the galaxy from the evil Ur-Quan. But this ship is no Silpheed, Radiant, or R-Type ship, so you're gonna need some help. Fortunately you weren't there at the time you were busy discovering a medium-pimpin' ship, used by ancient races. The plot works like this The Ur-Quan (after whom this game's PC release was named after) have gone around and defeated and enslaved the various races of the galaxy. So, of course, I got it, I played it, and was surprised by what I found. We all know the fate that awaited the 3DO, so I wasn't really expecting that it would have an outstanding line up of games, but one title that continually reappeared on lists of best games for it was a game I'd never heard of called Star Control 2. Truth be told, I bought my 3DO so I could play Return Fire and the 3DO-only expansion, but once I had acquired that, I needed to find something else in order to truly appreciate my purchase.
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