Installation

Basic Training

Screenshots

Movies

Mods

NOTE - This game is abandonware. There are no problems with sharing it. So, whether or not you like the game, please give the CD to someone you think might - don't let it just collect dust in your drawer. Thanks

What is Allegiance?

Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game. You pilot spacecraft, flying in a team with other players, defending and attacking sectors in space. Your team is led by a commander, who makes tactical decisions and invests in technology and bases. Flight and combat is done in first person view in a 3D environment; alternatively you can use a real-time, top-down view of your immediate surroundings to aid you in navigating and making quick tactical decisions. While this sounds simple enough, Allegiance is anything but an easy game to learn, even with its relatively basic control scheme and its simplified flight model. Allegiance is about tactics and co-ordination; knowing your ordnance & equipment and most importantly knowing where to be, what you should be doing there, and when to do it. It's no good dropping sensor probes in the enemy's mining sector if they're bombing your home garrison in the meantime! Given the enormous amount of factors to reckon with, it takes the average player somewhere between 3 and 6 months to learn the basics. On the plus side, Allegiance is full of interesting ways to turn space-ships into space-debris. Depending on the technology path your commander has chosen, you might fly steathcraft, hiding and sniping at your unsuspecting enemies from far away. You might fly the interceptor: the king of short-range dogfights. Perhaps you might pilot a bomber, with other players manning the anti-fighter turrets on your ship. Or you could be the infinitely useful scout that spots enemy movements, repairs friendly vessels and destroys an entire bomb-run with a well-timed minefield. Each map is randomly generated when the game begins - the different maps on a server merely donate the layout of wormholes - and there is currently 8 different factions (on the main server), each of which has 5 techpaths to choose from. This, combined the fact that the pilots and commanders change every game, leads to endless repeatability - you could play Allegiance for months and never have the same game twice. There are, on average, about thirty people participating in a game of Allegiance. A typical game lasts between thirty and fourty-five minutes, although games of more than 2 hours in length are not uncommon.