Gameplay Īres offers combat situations and strategic planning combined by allowing the player to directly control a single spaceship, at the same time as building and commanding others.Īres is a saga between six main alien species, with humans being one of the less advanced races in the universe: the Audemedons, the Salrilians, the Ishimans, the Cantharan, the Gaitori and the Humans. Upon undertaking their new mission, the ship is renamed the Ares. Although the advanced but peaceful Ishiman are unwilling to enter into direct war with the Cantharans, the Apollo’s crew is able to persuade them to supply a limited amount of their technology in an attempt to free Earth. On reaching the source, the crew is told that, due to relativistic effects, Earth has by now been taken over by the religious Cantharan Order, and the signal was a ruse from the friendly Ishiman, who wished to maintain humanity as a free race the Ishiman planned to find a new world for the crew of the Apollo.
Apollo, humankind’s first interstellar vessel, dispatched at light speed to investigate the source of a signal broadcast at Earth from one hundred and fifty light years away.
The player is cast as the commander of the U.N.S. Ishiman vessels defend a newly captured station.
