Legends of Pegasus Overview & Screenshots

By Marcus Jones Posted on May 9, 2012

The Story so far…

After humanity has discovered a new power source in the year 2231, the pathway to the stars opens up. Huge spaceships are built and soon after, the colonization of distant worlds. This was the first step in uniting humanity in the first time in its history.

War was inevitable however and colonies began to rebel against the government that was still situated on Earth. A alien race, which seemed friendly appeared and shared all their technological knowledge with is and ended the civil war. Peace proceeded until one day they began to regroup their spaceships and begun attacking. Earth was defended as much as it could until a wormhole opened up and swallowed a small group of human warships. These ships became stranded in an unknown galaxy. Legends of Pegasus tells the story of those ships…

What is Legends of Pegasus?

Legends of Pegasus is a classically styled 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) futuristic strategy game. In Legends of Pegasus, you’ll be tasked with rebuilding humanity by finding and colonizing new worlds while protecting them from enemy attacks. You’ll design mighty starships, erect planetary defenses, and form massive battle fleets to explore space and exterminate your foes.

Legends of Pegasus features an extensive campaign that will immerse players in a story that will have them encountering and commanding ships from the game’s three key races: Humans, X’or and Arthrox. As the story unfolds, the player will learn more about each race, and discover the true meaning of the “Legends of Pegasus”.

Along with the single-player campaign, Legends of Pegasus offers players a skirmish mode, for putting together quick scenarios, along with multiplayer modes for battling in real-time with other players via Internet and LAN-based play.

In both single- and multiplayer play, gamers will be able to play as the three races and 12 additional factions and guilds that are featured in the game. A deep technology tree will allow players to created new weapons, defenses and tools, while an Ancestry tree lets players customize their race to make use of special skills, such as increased trading abilities, boosted combat skills and more.