In Moonbase Alpha, you assume the exciting role of an astronaut on the lunar base in the year 2025. Returning from a research expedition, you witness a meteorite impact that cripples the life support capability of the settlement. With precious minutes ticking away, you and your team must repair and replace equipment in order to restore the oxygen production to the settlement.
Team coordination along with the proper use and allocation of your available resources (player controlled robots, rovers, repair tools, etc.) are key to your overall success. There are several ways in which you can successfully restore the life support system of the lunar base, but since you are scored on the time spent to complete the task, you have to work effectively as a team, learn from decisions made in previous gaming sessions, and make intelligence decisions in order to top the leaderboards.
"Our focus on Moon Base Alpha is to provide an accurate and immersive depiction of a lunar experience, a high level of replay value, and a test bed for multiplayer interactions that will be used in a much larger NASA game," said Jerry Heneghan, founder and CEO of Virtual Heroes, which was recently acquired by Applied Research Associates. "We currently are expecting for each game session to last approximately 15 minutes, but this will depend on player actions and extensive game tuning. our lead-in module will have several selectable maps geared toward providing players with several options that will cater to their own gaming experience, including maps geared for just two players or for just four players."
Minimum System Requirements:
Win XP SP3
2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
2 GB of System RAM
NVIDIA 7000-series or ATI Radeon X1900 Video Card
2 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
DirectX 9.0c
Recommended System Requirements:
Win XP SP3 / Vista / Windows 7
2.4+ GHz Dual Core Processor
4+ GB of System RAM
NVIDIA 9000+ or ATI Radeon 3600+ Video Card
5 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
DirectX 9.0c for XP/Vista, DirectX 10 for Windows 7
