Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
Lead an elite fighting team battling for freedom from the sinister forces of the Earth Hegemony. Engage in combat on the bloody battlefields of four unique worlds. Encased in your Powered Battle Armour (PBA)…
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is a shooter developed by Looking Glass Studios, released 5 March 1996 on DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is a shooter game developed by Looking Glass Studios and released in 1996. It is available on DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is a tactical first-person shooter developed and published by LookingGlass Technologies. It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS Set in a depiction of the 24th century, the game follows a faction of humans who colonize the Alpha Centauri star system to escape from the Hegemony, a totalitarian Earth government. The player assumes the role of Nikola ap Io, the leader of an Alpha Centauri military unit, and undertakes missions against pirates and the Hegemony.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 22 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM and 100% DirectX compatible graphics. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri launched on 5 March 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Resident Evil and Sid Meier's Civilization II. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Resident Evil, Sid Meier's Civilization II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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