Game One of the iDGi-1 Trilogy. Purchase includes 70 min original orchestral soundtrack by Jeremy Soule and the comprehensive "iDGi-1 Discoveries" lore compendium. Taking place entirely aboard a massive futuristic aircraft, CONSORTIUM is a first person science-fiction role-playing experience unlike any other. The story begins in our world - the "real world" - where we here at Interdimensional Games have developed a satellite (iDGi-1) capable of opening a digital rift through time and space... Anyone with an internet connection can travel through this rift and awaken within an alternate dimension from our own - the "game world" - in the year 2042. Features The first of a planned trilogy, Consortium contains a fully resolvable arc, but links to further games by a much larger story and its countless mysteries. Each subsequent title will act in this way, with both an internal story and a serialization that continues to build the alternate universe. Immerse yourself in the interactive story of the C-3800-D "ZENLIL" Consortium Command vessel on December 21st, 2042... Built with a modified version of the SOURCE engine, explore ZENLIL, a living and highly interactive environment with complete freedom and agency. Includes turbulence and non-scripted decompression events! Engage with a cast of over 20 people in innovative and life like conversation. Over 4,000 lines of fully voiced dialogue, each choice changes how they think about you. Or choose not to engage with them at all and never speak a word! Experience an all original orchestral score by award winning composer Jeremy Soule Act as detective investigating an on-board murder, while simultaneously playing peacemaker to a large band of mercenaries who seem to want YOU dead. Or play diplomacy with a smoking barrel, and let the tragedies continue to mount. Dive into a world with well over 150,000 words of back-story and lore, where everything you read, see, speak, or hear relates to the story and characters, and everything is there for a reason. A highly original energy based inventory system with original sci-fi weapons, gadgets and armor. The story unfolds based largely on your actions. You may use diplomacy and talk your way through the entire game - never shooting anyone! OR, decide to use deadly or non-lethal force. Forge lasting relationships with the crew of ZENLIL, and alter the course of the story through your actions. Your choices will change your play experience, and subsequent playthroughs offer the chance to make different decisions and see all new outcomes. Regardless of what you choose to do or not, the experience always moves forward, adapting seamlessly to YOU. Reviews “Consortium is an ingeniously subversive gem, containing enough backstory to fill a Triple-A trilogy while focusing exclusively on an airship crew in distress.” 4/5 – The Escapist “...you'll find a game that's punching well above its weight” Kotaku “Consortium offers a solid sample of what we’ve been saying games have the potential to do for a generation” Rock, Paper, Shotgun System Requirements Minimum: OS: Windows Vista/7/8 32bit (NO XP SUPPORT) Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.7GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 260 | AMD Radeon HD 4890 series DirectX: Version 9.0c Hard Drive: 7 GB available space Additional Notes: Of the maximum 4GB of addressable memory space on a 32-bit system (2 ^ 32 = 4,294,967,296 bytes = 4GB), Windows reserves 2GB. This leaves any application (such as Consortium) with a maximum of 2GB to play with. During loading, Consortium can allocate up to 1.8GB worth of memory. If you are running Consortium with a 32 bit machine, be sure to close as many other simultaneously running programs as you can, otherwise "out of memory" crashes may occur. Recommended: OS: Windows 7/8 x64 Processor: Intel i3 2100T | AMD Phenom II x4 or higher Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5830 series or higher DirectX: Version 9.0c Hard Drive: 7 GB available space
