




As of 2014, the game became the world's top-grossing online games, and in 2018 it even became the highest-grossing video-game with over $ 10 Billion in lifetime revenue. It is an online multiplayer tactical FPS (First Person Shooter) developed to run on the LithTech Jupiter EX game engine. No matter, because SMAX is an official game and so it is also true canon.CrossFire is developed by Smilegate Entertainment, and is published in China by Tencent, in Indonesia by Lyto and in all other parts of the world by Smilegate the software is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Perhaps it is not exactly how the original designers had intended the SMAC universe to be. It is kind of like a director's cut that includes story arcs omitted in the theatrical release, though this is not a perfect analogy because there are some differences in key personel developing the original game and the expansion. It is not a new campaign or a spin-off, it is additional story elements and game contents added on to the original. I think SMAX is a very impressive expansion. I'm sure many liked to discover more about the grand design purpose behind the 'Planet', but I thought the setting was good enough when it was just humans trying to assert themselves and their ideologies on a new frontier. SMAX exists pretty much solely to explain those mysteries and make the aliens playable (in addition to tweaking and adding more gameplay content). I think I prefered SMAC alone where the alien artifacts were just a mystery. The human side of the story is the same as the original but the expansion adds a few new technologies, a few new kinds of native life forms and some game balance tweaks among other things. I play SMAX with the original seven factions.
