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Not bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, Earth 2150 was a great game when it came out, albeit very underrated. I mean the story was very compelling - the news reports that came on the screen that showed the evacuation ship being constructed or battlefield triumphs and defeats really added depth. Plus, as time went on, you saw the Earths' environment slowly deteriorating - creating a sort of empathy in the player, for these were the signs that the Earth was dying.

The Moon Project has indeed added new units and weapons to the original Earth 2150, but not too much (so as to keep the authenticity of it being a sequel - after all, it takes place in the same period as Earth 2150, so too much new stuff would contradict the original game). Unfortunately, the developers were not so careful with the plot - in Earth 2150, it was said that the Lunar Corporation (LC) have to land on Earth to gather resources because the Moon is too barren and the Earth has only enough resources for one side to escape to Mars - 500,000 credits were needed for the LC evacuation ship. However, the Moon environment has incredible wealth of these resources - my final count when I'd finished the LC campaign was about 2,500,000 - 5 evacuation ships.

Aside from that the story goes that the LC have discovered alien weaponry on the Moon that can fire upon any Earth based target from the Lunar surface with absolute impunity - artillery of this nature would give them an awesome edge over the UCS and ED, but neither of them want that to happen. The project to activate the alien technology is simply referred to as 'Sunlight'.

In the LC campaign, you are defending Luna from a UCS invasion (so takes place entirely on the Moon). In the UCS campaign, you are leading the Moon invasion. The ED campaign is basically climbing the career ladder to get promotions and pretty much stays away from the Lunar conflict.

So, all in all, not a bad game but there's not much new here aside from the new units and weapons. The missions are a little boring on occasion, too and there's not a great sense of accomplishment when you finish. Still, it's worth a look for those who enjoyed Earth 2150.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Don't be fooled by bad reviews, those people are just small minded and impatient. Although i agree this game has a higher learning curve than most RTS games out there it makes it more fun once you get everything down. You can coordinate your troops very well, thats the best thing about it if you ask me. The graphics are good but the newest Command and conquer is better graphically.(Generals) And i do say that although there are not very many naval units in this game, if you ever take time to try it, can have some very, very cool naval battles. It's my favorite thing to do, just build a whole bunch of units and fight whatever ships the AI sends your way. I also like the nuclear explosions and how they make the whole screen shake it's really cool.

Don't waste your time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 18
Date: August 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The moon project looks very pretty. It uses this scheme to lure innocent gamers into what it a ponderous, confusing, and frustrating disaster of an RTS.

The controls reverse everything you expect in an RTS, which leads to many misclicks and frustrations. On the tutorial, I accidentally skipped one instruction box, and I couldn't figure out how to make units.

The game is dull. Extremely dull. Almost all the groundunits are some kind of truck or tank, and all look almost identical. To produce units at all, you need 4 different buildings and 2 different kinds of units. There's a unit designed for the sole purpose of lugging resource bricks from the Mining building to the Processing building. Everything takes about twice as long as it should to build, resulting in long periods of waiting.

Conclusion: Don't waste your time. Take a look at the box, maybe page through the strategy guide, but don't even try to play the game.

One Of The Best...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: January 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Moon Project must be one of the best Graphically, Strategically and made RTS games out there. Don't get fooled by the price, being because it didn't have the best publisher it didn't get all that successful, but it does not reflect the game. With 3 factions, all basing on different energy and physical weapons.
I suggest you to do the tutorial first before you get into it for it does have a fairly big learning curve. Once you get used to the interface you'll enjoy it and wont want to stop playing.
The Graphics are Superb, using a 3D revolving camera and a zoom in feature.
I 3D, are in a clan(Online gaming group), FOC.

It includes and economy side to the game but its mainly military. One resource, money, which is collected differently by all three factions (ED, LC, UCS)

Then the military is excellent using a very good engine and how to create units is excellent. firstly u have air, land and sea. You have chassis (a model) of a unit, then you have different weapons you can reseach (which cost credits) and whatever you have researched you can put on your units. So if you like one type of tank and really like the 20mm chain gun u can put them together. It is very extensive being able to reseach better chassis' and better weapons. So slowly u get better and stronger units. Some weapons are too powerful for some chassis' and vice vercer.

Overall its an awesome game having very intense gameplay needing a good couple of hours to understand everything using tunnels, air, sea, bridges, energy weapons, shields and many different game plays.

I reccoment at a minimum a P2 466 with a 32 Meg Riva TNT 2 VGA Card and a good 192 Ram + for good strong gameplay with jogging. Overall an excellent that every RTS fan should own.

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Outstanding RTS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best 3D strategy game I ever played, Moon Project has a lot of features that made the game fun, you can manage all the structure or unit really easily, and the graphic is cool, the game added weather effects and the time effects,you can plan your strategy, and research fantastic technology, like ballistic missle or nuclear missle, and research the veichle classes, and research the weapons, you can launch nuclear missle from submarine, bomb emeny base with your bomber!!

Excellent Game with very few flaws

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is well thought out. The graphics are great and the AI is ok. The only thing I don't like (emphasis on only), is the campaigns have a thin plot which is read and has a little movie every time that doesn't really have anything to do with the game a whole lot. Like most rts's, it has excellent replay value not only against the computer, but against the rest of the world.

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great I love it, you can play it for hours and not get bored and you can also play against other players from around the world online.

This game rocks.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you played Earth 2150, you should be able to pick this game up and play it right away. Almost disapointingly not much has changed from that game. This game is visually stunning with better graphics than C&C: Red Alert2, but not quite as action packed. You get to play all 3 factions which have about 10-13 missions for each faction. The one cool feature is you can build a tank, plane, or turret and put whatever weapon you want on the unit and there are plenty to chose from. The unfortunate thing about this game is it is too much like Earth 2150 and they didn't improve the graphics or the game play. I had a little trouble with the game getting choppy if you tried to zoom out too far (I have a P1000mhz, 64meg video card, 256meg rdram)that gets alittle annoying because you can't see much of the battle field. The music wasn't that great either.
But it still a cool game with a lot of good battles and many hours of playing.

It Is a good rts

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This games is a very tactical RTS involving alot of skills to play it. Dont expect to pick it up and start playing it like you would if u picked up a c&c game. The learning curfew for me was about a day. It has excellent graphics, using a very well done camera zoom and rotation, but very complicated gameplay, but once u learn how to play its a very impressive game. Extra features like tunnels, choice of weapons on military units and buildings, day and night are many features which u wont find in many rts's out now. It likes its ram and a good 32 meg graphics card.

Its complicated but it gives u very good 23 century war, example energy weapons and shields, warheads on subs, massive mechwarriors with massive weapon systems, weather machines and anti gravity tanks.

It seems to me this game is either terrible or fantastic.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am also a fan of Command & Conquer. But I think the Moon Project is better. The reasons are, for 1: you can put your troops into formation (Like AOK). 2: You actually get to custimize what kind of weapon they have. 3: It uses a 3d card which most new computers have and others will still have. So soon C&C will not be able to sell as many games because computers will progress and unless C&C does starting making 3D games its going down!

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