12月初，Infinite Realms登陆Facebook社交网站，目前该游戏有玩家4万2000人。Infinite Realms是以科幻小说为背景的即时策略游戏。玩家在游戏中扮演星系旅行者的角色，穿梭于各个星系之间完成各种任务，并开疆僻壤，保护盟友。

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据游戏邦了解，就游戏画质而言，Infinite Realms可谓是迄今为止画质最为优良的Facebook游戏，同时还支持玩家即时聊天。众所周知，即时策略类游戏一般较为复杂，其中战斗的胜负比起运气更取决于玩家的谋略决策。对此，Infinite Realms充分顾虑到了没有经验的游戏玩家。

Infinite Realms为玩家提供了详细的游戏指南。在Infinite Realms中，玩家占据关卡或基地作为指挥中心。在关卡之中，玩家需要兴建储存粮草的Rations Depots，开采资源的Refineries，制造重型武器的Armories和开发军队设备的Barracks等建筑。然而，由于关卡或基地中的可建筑地块有限，玩家必须在各个关卡或基地中建设不同类别的建筑，以确保充沛的资源和军事力量。

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另外，玩家可以通过游戏的任务系统赚取粮草，声望（游戏经验）和道具。在游戏屏幕上方会显示现有的矿产和资源数量，因此玩家必须建造适宜的建筑以保证资源充沛。同时通过运用某些游戏道具可以促进资源产量的提升，然而这类道具只能短时间内提升量产，因此玩家必须谨慎考虑使用时机。

就战斗系统方面，玩家一旦自觉兵强马壮便可以开始发起进攻。玩家可以在星球表面发现地方基地后展开攻势。战斗中，玩家需要为每支不对配备一名英雄或者将军，他们将会组织军队作战，并且为玩家提供胜负结局的可能性。在Infinite Realms中，玩家可以立刻得知战斗结果，当然也可选择远程播放观看详细的战斗过程。

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在星球表面，玩家可以发现许多地方阵营，旁边零落散步这可收为己用的资源矿产。玩家可以启动航母漫游整个星系，随着航母等级的不断提升，玩家的可储存资源上限也会逐渐增长。

在社交元素方面，玩家可以进入母舰的领事中心查看“事件相关同盟”。玩家的等级越高，可开发的同盟人数也就越多。当然玩家也可以浏览和加入其他显示玩家的联盟。

总而言之，Infinite Realms为Facebook玩家提供了较为复杂的游戏体验。在Infinite Realms中，玩家可以使用现实货币购买加速游戏进度的道具，同时也可选择静待游戏进度的发展。值得一提的是，Infinite Realms为玩家提供了目前大部分Facebook游戏无法媲美的高品质画面效果，开发商精心设计的游戏体验便于初学者快速上手。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Infinite Realms was launched on Facebook at the beginning of December, and has since climbed to over 42,000 users. The game’s real-time-strategy gameplay is served with a science-fiction storyline surrounding you, as a galactic traveler, that must traverse the many galaxies of space on your mission of expanding your own realm, and protecting a group known as the Confederation.

Infinite Realms has some of the best graphics we’ve seen from a game starting right out of the gate, and also offers real-time chat amongst players. The gameplay here is complex, as is normally the case in a real-time strategy game, where battles take place with, as the genre suggests, strategy, rather than just luck. However, the gameplay seems to be setup in such a way as to be friendly to those who are lacking in experience with the genre.

Meet us behind the break for a complete preview of Infinite Realms on Facebook.

Infinite Realms contains a detailed tutorial, which, while containing a few mis-translated portions, serves to show you the basics of gameplay. You’ll be able to control outposts or bases, which serve as your overall command centers for a particular planet. Within these outposts, you’ll be able to construct buildings like Rations Depots (rations are used to train military units), Refineries (extracts resources like gas), Armories (manufactures heavy-weaponry like tanks), Barracks (trains and outfits new soldiers with equipment) and more.

You’ll only be able to construct new buildings where there are free construction plots on your Outpost. As there are a limited number of these construction plots available, you’ll need to think ahead so as to give each outpost a variety of buildings, so that they are never lacking in resources or military units.

You’ll be helped in your progress by a quest system, that will reward you with rations, reputation points (the game’s experience points), and other items. Your available minerals and resources are listed at the top of the screen, and you’ll have to build the appropriate buildings to make sure these items are constantly produced, even when you’re not playing the game. Think of production as a sort of factory job – you can increase the production rate of your resources by adding workers – in this case boost items – to the production line. Most of these items will only boost production for a limited amount of time, however, so you’ll need to make sure to use them when they are needed most.

As for battles themselves, once you feel that you have enough soldiers ready for battle, you can zoom from your outpost to a view of the planet’s surface, where you’ll see enemy outposts and bases that can be attacked. Each military unit needs to have a Hero, or general of sorts assigned to it. They will lead your army into battle, and will also advise you before you attack as to whether or not victory seems likely. From there, the battle will have an immediate outcome (you either win or lose), but you can watch a detailed view of your battle via an instant replay, showing individual units on the battlefield.

On the planet’s surface, you’ll be able to spot any surrounding enemy camp, along with resource bases that can be taken for your own use. Your mothership will also come into play (remember, this game is about patrolling the entire galaxy – not just a single planet), and you’ll be able to upgrade this ship to add to your total available supplies in the game. That is, you will eventually come to the maximum amount of Rations or Troops that your supplies can sustain for your level. By upgrading the mothership, these caps will increase, allowing you to store more items, and ultimately become stronger.

In terms of social elements, you can head to the Consulate portion of the Mothership in order to see the “Alliance-related affairs” of the game. The higher level you are in the game, the more alliance members you can have in any alliance that you happen to create, but you can also take the time to browse through and apply to join alliances of other real-world game players.

All in all, Infinite Realms offers as much complexity from the game as you’d want. You can use real world currency to purchase items that will speed up your progress or give you access to more complex customization in the game, or you can let the in-game Cooldown Timers determine when you’ll come back to the game and make progress. The game’s graphics stand out in terms of the entire Facebook platform, and the gameplay is linear enough to start that you shouldn’t become lost in simply trying to learn the mechanics of the game.（Source：Games.com）