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2005 · Standalone expansion · Meridian4 · First-person shooter · Shooter

Chrome SpecForce

Standalone expansion

Chrome: SpecForce is a standalone expansion pack for Chrome. The gameplay in Chrome: SpecForce is largely identical to that of Chrome, although it has been streamlined, while the overall difficulty has also been lowered. The player can survive significantly more damage (ostensibly due to wearing Power Armor), healing and ammo items are more common-place, and the control scheme has been condensed so as to require fewer separate commands.

Released: 19 August 2005
Platforms: Windows
Genres: First-person shooter Shooter
Developers: Meridian4
Publishers: Techland
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Science fiction
Age ratings: ESRB M

About

Chrome is a 2003 first-person shooter video game developed by Techland and published by Gathering in Europe and Strategy First in North America. It was re-released with additional levels in 2004 as Advanced Battlegrounds: The Future of Combat (in some countries called Chrome: Gold Edition). A prequel, Chrome SpecForce, was released in 2005. In March 2006, Techland announced a sequel, which would feature the latest version of the Chrome Engine, but was reported to be "on hold" soon after.

›Story

Special Forces of the future. Chrome SpecForce, are an elite strike force unit of the FEC (Federal Expeditionary Corps), created with one sole purpose, to rid the planetary system of global hazards and crisis situations that endanger the Federation's stability, or directly violate federal order. This elite strike force must undertake top secret missions such as high profile target assassination, espionage, infiltration and sabotage of enemy territory. Armed with the most up to date combat equipment, the SpecForce field agents are equipped for any situation.

You are Logan, a member of the elite SpecForce military unit. Your mission - to battle terrorist factions on the desolate planet of Estrella! But things turn from bad to worse when the local conflict escalates to pan galactic proportions... and you're in the middle of it all!

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Story

Chrome takes place in the final years of the 22nd century, and opens with partners Bolt Logan and Ron "Pointer" Hertz, former special forces members turned freelancers, engaging on a routine mission to the planet Zorg to retrieve corporate blueprints that have been stolen by an unknown party. During the mission, Pointer betrays Logan. Logan meets up with another freelancer named Carrie and the two of them team up.

One year later, Logan and Carrie have become business partners. Their initial mission is on behalf of the mining corporation SPACON, battling a group of pirates that have been hijacking SPACON transport ships and have also kidnapped a nanotechnology scientist.

Reception

Chrome is known as the first action game developed in Poland to get a major international release and receive "mixed or average" reviews beyond the country's borders, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.