Players can command individual ships and full armadas in space, guiding a mother ship as it flees from the destruction of its home world. In 16 missions, players build spacecraft and weapons to help fight off the aliens attempting to eliminate the last surviving inhabitants of the planet. Resources can be harvested from space and from wreckage to help build larger and more powerful weapons. Each plane has graphically detailed and functional cockpit panels, as well as accurate representations of the interior and exterior. Satellite images of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, New York and Chicago allow for realistic flying conditions in these cities.
Players can also fly to locations around the world.
Air traffic controllersand GPS units add even more realism as pilots traverse the world by day or night. And Math Blaster Series Knowledge Adventure added several titles to its popular Reading Blaster and Math Blaster series with the release of Reading Blaster Kindergarten and 1st Grade and Math Blaster 1st and 2nd Grade. Each offers direct approach to math and reading, concentrating on specifics highlighted in each of the grades. Using fun games and all the Blaster characters, the reading products teach reading comprehension, vocabulary, opposites, rhyming and alphabetizing. The math products also use fun teaching methods to explain logic, addition, subtraction, and concepts such as greater than and less than.