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Space Aggressor is an unique freeware real-time strategy game by RunTime Entertainment in which you play the commander of the bad guys of your typical shoot-em-up game. Your mission is to prevent Mr Lone Space Hero™ from wiping out your base of operations by all means necessary.

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Your base is defenceless against the enemy and must therefore rely on sending out spaceships (preferably in overwhelming numbers) to whittle the enemy hero’s spaceship down to tiny bits before he arrives and destroys the entire base. Estimated time of arrival is displayed in the left commander window and may vary when the Hero™ picks up a speed-up powerup (his progress is shown in the right hero window).

There’s a lot of choices that you have to make in tweaking your armada of spaceships from the weapon and shield configuration of each type of spaceship (a total of 5 types) to the formation of your spaceships, their targeting priority upon launch as well as the launch sequence for multiple spaceships (below). Once launched, spaceships will continually harass the enemy hero until they are destroyed.

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To build up your forces, you have the entire economy at your disposal whereby you can set the manufacturing and research priorities as well as adjust the ratio of workers on production (increase spaceship production speed), sales and resources which increase the rate of credits and resources acquisition respectively, both which are needed for manufacturing of spaceships as well as for research.

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Your production facilities can be assigned to either produce more workers to boost the economy, create more spaceships to bolster your forces (above) or research better weapons, spaceships and shields to give your swarm of cannon fodder a better chance of inflicting damage on the Hero™ (below). Base facilities can also be upgraded to increase the worker capacity and more importantly, the number of production slots.

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Once in a while, Mr Lone Space Hero™ will attempt to fire a Super Rocket in your direction which will destroy one of your base facility upgrades unless any of your spaceships successfully shoots at him or rams into him. The Super Rocket is an interesting game mechanic to prevent players from concentrating solely on advancing the tech tree while hoarding credits and resources before unleashing a swarm of highly upgraded spaceships against Mr Hero™ (below). Heroes still need a fighting chance, right?

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Some tips to enjoy the game (read the README.TXT for more):

• When the game starts, you have 500 unallocated workers. Assign them wisely.
• Research at least two base upgrades ASAP to increase the production slots which will then allow you to manufacture spaceships and research simultaneously
• Attempt to knock out the shields of the Hero™ before targeting his engine
• Play hotseat multiplayer where one player churns out the bad guys with the mouse as the base commander and the other player plays as the Hero™ as a traditional shoot em’ up (controls are cursor keys for movement, X for primary weapon and C for secondary weapon)

My only grouse is that the production of new spaceships would require less clicking if the production options were on a sidebar like Command & Conquer than with the current popup menu.

Download Space Aggressor (17.7 MB) from RunTime Entertainment. RunTime Entertainment also hosts an excellent review section for indie freeware games.

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