Gratuitous Space Battles v1.62 + DLC's (2009/ENG/Steam-Rip by R.G. Gamer)
Year: 2011 | PC | English | Developer: Positech Games | Publisher(s): Positech Games | 582 MB
Genres: Space Shooter Strategy

Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

Gratuitous Space Battles combines the visual appeal of an RTS, with the addictive unit-placement and design gameplay from tower defense games. In Gratuitous Space Battles, the player does not control individual ships at all during battle. The ships fight to a pre-determined set of orders and formations given to them by you before the battles.

Gratuitous Space Battles casts you as supreme space admiral, tasked with the design of individual spaceships, and the composition of your fleet, as well as general orders of engagement. This is not a twitch-based real time arcade game like many an RTS, but a game of careful thought, planning and big-picture strategy. Huge space battles can be won or lost depending on just how cleverly you balanced the needs of defensive shielding and armor against the expensive punch of laser cannons and plasma torpedoes.
Gratuitous Space Battles also features an innovative multiplayer challenge system. You can upload your ultimate fleet to serve as the enemy to other players, and keep track of how many other players have won and lost against your challenge. That way, you will never run out of cunningly designed enemies to battle against!

Game features:
4 different race.
Over 40 types of hulls.
More than 120 different modules for the ships.
Playing against a computer opponent, endless survival mode or play against other players over the network.
Battle can be played out by different rules, depending on the kind of spatial anomaly will be next to the battlefield.

The Tribe
The galactic war has gone on long enough. There is only one power in this galaxy that has the common sense to bring the fighting to an end, and now that power is about to be unleashed. Ladies, Gentlemen, Entities, I present to you the almighty power of the pan-species collection of idealistic space-hippies and bringers of galactic peace (through a short-term period of intense furious stellar warfare) - The TRIBE.
* A whole new race for Gratuitous Space Battles
* 11 new ships
* New ship bonuses
* New weapons types (kinetic)
* 2 new scenarios to play single player or online

The Order
Be warned heathen un-believers. The Galaxy is not your plaything. This galaxy was created in a weekend by the one true god, and he has no room in it for the likes of heathen aliens such as you. If your species is not listed in the holy book of the one true god, then it's pretty clear you are a mistake, and the order is here to rectify mistakes. For is it not written (depending on translations) that the total destruction of all alien species with devastating radioactive cannons and nuclear space-missiles is the will of the one true god? So say us. So say The ORDER.
* A whole new race for Gratuitous Space Battles
* 10 new ships
* New ship bonuses
* New weapons types (limpet mines, radiation guns, nuclear missiles, faster rockets)
* 2 new scenarios to play single player or online

The Swarm
Pack up your spacesuits and head for the exits. Your time in this galaxy is over. The swarm is on the way. They are heading towards us, and like the tide, they cannot be stopped. Your lasers and missiles may destroy the first wave, but that is the first of many. There seems to be no end to their numbers and they will never give up. The swarm have no home to retreat to, no territory to fall back to. They will attack in wave after wave with suicidal determination. There can be no negotiation, we must flee. THE SWARM are upon us.
A whole new race for Gratuitous Space Battles
* 10 new ships
* New ship bonuses
* New weapons types (Fusion Guns, Disruptor beams, Smart Bombs)
* 2 new scenarios to play single player or online

The Nomads
It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. You journey is to your death, preferably by high-powered plasma torpedo volleys, if the armada of aliens known as 'the nomads' are to be believed. The nomads have no homeworld, they don't believe it's time to 'settle down' as a species. They are still looking to find the right planet, and killing time (and aliens) in the meantime. It's nothing personal you understand, it's just the way the nomads entertain themselves. Galactic genocide is their sport of choice.
The Nomads are the oldest race in the known universe. They are just travelling from A to B, (although nobody now remembers where A was, or what they are heading to B for), and looking for a little 'exploding aliens' sport on their journey. The nomads are travelling through your part of space, and your homeworlds destruction is this week's entertainment for them.

The Parasites
The parasites always go too far, they never did get the idea of mutualism and they never have pets (for long). So now they are venturing forth from their adopted home planet and in search of a cognate species which breeds freely and is able to give birth at least once per year, with a good growth rate and preferably (although a bit of crunch is acceptable) without an exoskeleton. The parasitoid race is no longer deterred by bright colouring of potential hosts as they know from experience that these are sometimes simple dye additives that some races ingest in a rather feeble attempt to suggest they may be toxic. They have had 198 years to upgrade their battle fleet in between breeding and snacking and now want to change the menu. Mmm how tasty are you?
* 10 New ships. 4 Cruisers 3 Frigates and 3 fighters, all in a new graphical style by the same artist who did the original GSB artwork. The parasite ships have multiple translucent sections in varying colors, coming accross as classy, expensive, but also not to be messed with.
* 3 New ship equipment: The flak cannon is a cruiser weapon designed to target enemy fighter swarms. The cannon ahs an 'area-of-effect' damage as well as hitting the target ship. The Plasma slinger is a small but ultra-high-rate-of-fire plasma torpedo weapon. This is the first plasma weapon that can have multiple torpedoes in flight at the same time. The missile revenge scrambler is a whole new type of ECM weapon that actually sends missile back to attack the ship that launched them, rather thamn just scrambling their guidance systems.
* New ship bonuses. The parasites build these ships to last. Most of the new hulls have both integrity and armor bonuses. The parasites aren't so good on the shields front, but they make up for it with stronger armor.
* 1 New Scenario. One new map for you to fight against the parasites, and to use in online challenges. Obviously you can use the race in fighting any existing maps, from any other DLC or the base game.

Additional Information:
Present DLC

DLC's
"The Tribe"
"The Order"
"The Swarm"
"The Nomads"
"Galactic Conquest"
"The Parasites"
"The Outcasts"
"Challenges"

Versions of content

Gratuitous Space Battles + DLC's (from 02/26/13)
Version: 1.62

Steam-Rip is identical to the activated via Steam, updated to the latest version of the licensed copy of the game from Positech Games. The game is packed with original structure, acf and manifest files.

Installing and running
1. Unzip the game using Gratuitous.Space.Battles. &. DLCs.EN-RGIgromany.exe
2. Copy the contents of the folder Crack (DCCentR) in the game folder (... \ steamapps \ common \ Gratuitous Space Battles \)
3. Run the game with GSB.exe (... \ steamapps \ common \ Gratuitous Space Battles \)

System requirements:
v Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7
v Processor: 1.5 GHz
v Memory: 1 GB
v Video: with 128 MB VRAM
v Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
v Hard disk space: 1.5 GB