First conceived by gaming industry vet Derek Smart in the late nineteen eighties with the first title, Battlecruiser 3000AD released in 1996 by Take 2 Interactive, then re-imagined in 2004 as Universal Combat - the long running Battlecruiser series comes to a close with the release of Universal Combat Collectors' Edition.

This ultimate compendium spanning eleven years represents the evolution of hard core space combat sims. It consists of full copies of the three legacy Battlecruiser retail releases in their original state. It also contains over one hundred scenarios from all the games in Battlecruiser and Universal Combat series running on improved versions of the Universal Combat Special Edition game engine.

Universal Combat Collectors' Edition contains full versions and scenarios from the following titles :

1. Universal Combat Special Edition (3000AD, Oct 2006)
2. Universal Combat A World Apart (3000AD, Oct 2005)
3. Universal Combat Gold (3000AD, Oct 2005)
4. Universal Combat (Dreamcatcher Interactive, Feb 2004)
5. Battlecruiser Millennium Gold (Dreamcatcher Interactive, March 2003)
6. Battlecruiser Millennium (EB Games, Nov 2001) *
7. Battlecruiser 3000AD v2.0 (Interplay, Dec 1998) *
8. Battlecruiser 3000AD (Take2, Sept. 1996) *

Full stand-alone version included on DVD-ROM

Game box contents :

DVD-ROM
Full 96-page printed manual
Printed keyboard sheet with color galaxy map on reverse side