Projekt "W" is a turn-based strategy game set in a near future. The hostile setting has only five huge remaining nations, and the player has to lead one of those nations to world-domination. He must manage his regions, create an army, research new technologies and spy on his enemies. The game can be played alone (against computer-controlled enemies) or with up to five players on one PC (hotseat-mode). The game is presented fully in 3D and uses some advanced rendering techniques on modern graphics cards.
Features:
State-of-the-art 3D graphics using OpenGL and shaders (only on hardware that supports shader model 2 and up)
5 different nations with different territorial startings, its own history and basic factors, each with its unique 3D background
Almost 40 different buildings
14 different military units
25 technologies awaiting to be researched
Single- and multiplayer game modes for up to 5 players
Varying AI personalities, no game against computer enemies is the same
Multilingual (english and german for now)
Extensive manual to get you started
Its freeware
System Requirements:
Windows 2k/XP (Vista should work, not tested) Windows 98/Me are not supported but may work if you install the GDIPlus DLLs (see link in games readme)
Single-core CPU with at least 1 Ghz (the game does not take advantage of multiple cores)
512 MBytes of memory
~80 MBytes of free hard disk space
Graphics card with 128 MBytes video memory that supports OpenGL 1.3 and texture compression (Geforce 4 and up and Radeon 9000 and up should work)