Terminus
Terminus is a space-flight role-playing/action computer game by Vicarious Visions. It was released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh. Terminus won awards in the 1999 Independent Games…
Terminus is an adventure developed by Vicarious Visions, released 27 June 2000 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Terminus is
Terminus is an adventure game developed by Vicarious Visions and released in 2000. It was published by Vatical Entertainment. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Terminus is a space-flight role-playing/action computer game by Vicarious Visions. It was released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh. Terminus won awards in the 1999 Independent Games Festival for "Technical Excellence" and "Innovation in Audio". Terminus is outstanding in its implementation of Newtonian laws of motion, which means that objects are subject to inertia. Once accelerated, they float indefinitely into one direction, unless again accelerated into a different direction. This makes steering quite complicated, but mirrors actual behaviour in free space. In Story mode, the player chooses one of four careers (United Earth League military, Mars Consortium…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Terminus launched on 27 June 2000, within three weeks of Diablo II, Deus Ex, Final Fantasy IX and Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.
Released around the same time: Diablo II, Deus Ex, Final Fantasy IX, Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.
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