Colony Wars (1997)
Colony Wars is a 1997 simulator video game made by Psygnosis and Artdink.
Colony Wars puts you in the cockpit of a League starfighter during a long-running war against the Earth Empire. Missions span multiple star systems, each with its own physical conditions, and the ships carry separate shield and armor layers that demand switching between weapon types mid-combat. A branching structure across five possible endings means performance in the field shapes what the League offers you next. Psygnosis built the game around cockpit immersion, and the scale of the capital ships you engage makes the lone fighter feel appropriately small.
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What is Colony Wars about?
Colony Wars puts you in the cockpit of a League starfighter during a long-running war against the Earth Empire. Missions span multiple star systems, each with its own physical conditions, and the ships carry separate shield and armor layers that demand switching between weapon types mid-combat. A branching structure across five possible endings means performance in the field shapes what the League offers you next. Psygnosis built the game around cockpit immersion, and the scale of the capital ships you engage makes the lone fighter feel appropriately small.
When was Colony Wars released?
Colony Wars was released on 31 October 1997.
Who made Colony Wars?
Colony Wars was made by Psygnosis and Artdink.
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The rebels-versus-empire spine and the sense of a galaxy-wide conflict where one pilot is a small piece of something larger connects directly to Blake's 7, the BBC series that ran the same premise through seven seasons of attrition. Old Man’s War covers the same emotional ground in print: a recruit dropped into an alien war, learning the real stakes.