Archimedean Dynasty - PC Games

Games Developed in Germany (48 items)
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Back in the early nineties, before games were approved by committee, and when new and innovations were not only allowed, but encouraged, Blue Byte software, famed for its medieval resource-management game Settlers, and turn-based war-game series Battle Isle, suddenly began diversifying its games line-up with fantastically playable results. Out of this strange and mystifying decision came some of t... read more

Description: You are Emerald "Dead Eye" Flint, an underwater mercenary in the 27th century. Equip your ship, form alliances, and trade your wares in this futuristic world. You travel in your personal sub through 60 different missions. Along the way, a sinister plot comes up, and you must be the person to bring it to a halt.Archimedean Dynasty is the kind of game that automatically makes you long for the extended weekend, the random holiday, the traffic-paralyzing blizzard, the three-day flu, or perhaps the odd death in the family - anything to justify staying away from school, work, or other responsibilities long enough for a serio You are Emerald "Dead Eye" Flint, an underwater mercenary in the 27th century. Equip your ship, form alliances, and trade your wares in this futuristic world. You travel in your personal sub through 60 different missions. Along the way, a sinister plot comes up, and you must be the person to bring it to a halt.Archimedean Dynasty is the kind of game that automatically makes you long for the extended weekend, the random holiday, the traffic-paralyzing blizzard, the three-day flu, or perhaps the odd death in the family - anything to justify staying away from school, work, or other responsibilities long enough for a serious immersion into an onscreen world.Set in an ugly, nasty, dystopian future, Archimedean Dynasty can be seen as the aftermath of a high-speed collision between Waterworld and SeaQuest, with a dash of the optimistic cheer found in Blade Runner: The Big One has come and gone, and the endless exchanges of nukes have taken their toll, melting a third of the icecaps and flooding horrifying portions of terra firma, just in time for the nuclear winter to set in and render it all uninhabitable. Those determined to survive have fled beneath, to the cold, dark oceans. No ray of light can penetrate the stratospheric debris of the Last War, and even if it could, it wouldn't penetrate the "Biogenic" - the 40-meter-thick layer of dead organic crud (!) sealing the oceans in their eternal night. Welcome to Aqua, the only world left on earth, and have a nice freakin' day. ... (more) (less)