

Before now it was just a case of picking based on how easy you wanted the game to be or which symbol you liked the best. Firstly, as stated before, it gives each sponsor a feeling of personality and individuality from all of the others.

Thankfully for Space Race, these new features for the sponsors had a two-pronged effect on the game. The goals are usually along the lines of completing some sort of milestone, whether that be a number of colonists, a certain research branch completed or constructing enough of the right type of buildings. You don’t find out what these goals really are until after you’ve started the game, but a lot can be inferred from the different bonuses assigned to each sponsor at the start of the game. These are usually things like an increase in research speed for specific types of research or bonus cash for exploring the planet, and they can help to add a bit of character to each sponsor.Įach of the sponsors also have their own specific goals that they wish you to complete too. As well as providing you with a different level of funding and pay for your resources or research, they also have new bonuses unique to them. The new sponsors in Space Race also come with some changes to the regular sponsors. Brazil is a normal difficulty level sponsor with a pretty decent level of funding and with more of a focus on colonists themselves and the work they can do. Japan is a hard difficulty sponsor with low funding and a fleet of vehicles designed for speed and efficiency in exploration. The DLC adds 2 news sponsors to the list, Japan and Brazil.

The first feature you’ll notice in Space Race is probably the two newest mission sponsors since you have to pick these before you start a game. Space Race features new mechanics, new sponsors for your colonisation mission and a whole bunch of new specific stuff from your sponsors. Surviving Mars: Space Race DLC is the latest DLC release for Surviving Mars, a game from earlier in 2018 about trying to survive on our neighboring red planet, Mars…go figure.
SURVIVING MARS SPACE RACE PLUS
Surviving Mars falls into that last category, and the new Space Race Plus DLC seeks to add some competition to the series by adding new sponsors and rival colonies to the game. A creepy, empty colony devoid of life but covered in blood, a speculative adventure set in the wonderful future and even a straight up story of colonists on a far off planet starting a new life. What is it with space colonisation and video games? The subject has been done a fair amount over the years and has appeared in several different styles.
