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Earth 2150 - An Enthralling RTS Experience...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: November 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I got this game back when it first came out and was unable to play it because my PC was too slow (my father got the game, he wasn't aware of the specfications - parents...). Anyway, we purchased a new PC about one year later, but by that time I had forgotten about "Earth 2150." However, I found it one day and being the strategy-game crazed maniac I am, I played it. Sure as hell, my machine ran the game like a charm and all I have to say is that this RTS does NOT disappoint in the slightest: allow me to explain...

The year is 2150 (well, um...I know you know already!) and the Earth is in a state of chaos. A War between the United Civilised States and the Eurasian Dynasty has caused an unavoidable cataclysmic inevitability and the Earth is doomed to be destroyed. Meanwhile, a forgotten Moon Race has also noticed the activity on Gaya's (the Earth's) surface and are fully aware of the ramifications of these happenings. All three races must now seek to escape the impending disaster by harvesting resources from the Earth to build an escape vessel of gargantuan proportions. However, resources are limited and many thousands are needed - all three races must therefore battle for dominance over the dying planet in order to escape the coming cosmic disaster. The storyline is great and highly original - it gets 10/10 from my side.

Now onto the juicy bits: as far as graphics go, this game still looks great (well, it did in 2002 and 2003). All units are immaculately detailed and well shaped. The atmospheres range from clear summer days to volcanic wastelands and frozen barrens. Night time looks fantastic and all units and structures turn on their lights for improved vision in the evening. The visual effects are stunning and the movements of each unit is unique and convincing. You are also able to pan around and look at structures from all angles which makes for a much more immersive game and the environments are stunningly rendered. I'd give graphics 9/10 for today's standards, they still impress me alot.

Gameplay is fantastic. You can select all your units and order them to attack and even create platoons to manage a group of units, which is an ingenious tool as the computer can do everything simultaneously and this brings you up to speed as such. Missions range from seek and destroy to recovery missions and even defence missions, but most of your missions will involve harvesting resources and delivering them back to your main base. You also keep units from previous missions and can ferry them back to your main base, so you benefit from having a number of units that survive. I just cannot flaw gameplay - the command structure of the game is perfect and makes for fiersome combat situations. 10/10 for gameplay.

The ability to research enhanced weaponry, resource gatherers and unit chassis' is excellent. Each race has their own unique units and can upgrade their own unique weapons - my personal favourite Unit was the Eurasian Dynasty's bomber helicopter - once you upgraded its bombs to atom bombs, you could got to town! Woo hoo! Each upgrade is permanent and so you don't have to continue re-upgrading your units like in other RTS Games. Researching ability gets 10/10 once again...

As aforementioned, each race has their own unique traits and abilities. For example, the UCS build Mechanized Warriors and have powerful Plasma technology while the ED have far more primitive yet hardy tanks and vehicles and have technologies such as the Ion Cannon and devastating Laser cannons (not to mention those Atom Bombs - Oh boy!). All races share certain technologies, such as Missile launchers and harvesting equipment. All units that carry projectile based weapons must be reloaded and units with shields and energy based weapons need to recharge them occasionally - this brings another element of realism to the game and you can now attack the ammo carrying units in order to cripple your enemies' defences etc. My favourite race overall was the UCS, simply because of their incredible Mech Warriors and those plasma cannons - woah, do they rock! There are alot of clever elements that some gamers seem to never notice - an experienced RTS player can see these things while Rookies tend to take them for granted. What can I say? All races are fantastic and have their own methods of attacking, building, mining and defending. A solid 10/10 for diversity, ingenuity and innovation.

My only real complaint with this game is that you may not be able to finish all the missions (I finished every mission with the LC and UCS). This is because I gathered more than my quota in resources on individual missions for every faction, but with the ED I just finished gathering all the resources I needed before the end of the game as such (I had like 2 or 3 mission to go). So I missed out a little on the whole ED Experience, but this was a minor element really. You have to remember that your primary goal is gathering resources - NOT killing the s*** out of everyone (though we all LOVE that. Well I do anyway...)

Overall this game gets 97% on my scorecard. The FMV sequences are a little dated but still really cool and the game as a whole is one of the most enjoyable, unique and original RTS games I have ever played. I highly recommend this game to RTS fans and that RTS veterans (such as myself) play on the hard difficulty - you'll be in for a challenge, especially towards the final missions. I often had my bases annihilated by long range attacks - this forces you to be highly aggressive as opposed to merely defending your base, building up an attack force and then pulverizing your foes (like in previous missions). If you're a serious RTS gamer looking for an original game that's sure to be a challenge, then "Earth 2150" is for you my friend! And as for lastability, you can play LAN Games, Multiplayer and Skirmishes - you can have endless amounts of fun with this - I played the game for about 3-4 months after I finished the campaigns. Do yourself a favour - buy or rent or do whatever - but get this game, face the challenge and crush your foes into tiny ashes as they were meant to be! Thank you...

HELLA FUN

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: April 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

a sequel to Earth 2140. A must have for all fans of Sci-Fi action games!

And old game; but it rocks.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My friends and I recently re-deiscovered this old classic. We ingage in online battles almost every week; damn is it fun.

The graphics are up to par with the most modern games, and the 3D camera is great. The units are very very diverse, dispite what that other reviewer said. There are mechs, tanks, helicopters, hover vehicles, anti-grav vehicles, ships, and boats. You can build bridges, dig trenches, build tunnels - what other game lets you do that? This game involves so much strategy - that is to say, there are so many ways of accomplishing your objective. There are many weapons, and shields which protect from energy weapons; non-energy weapons need to be resupplied, which adds an awesome dose of realism - and fun. I love shooting down my friend's resupply planes during a big battle, then taking out the helpless unit. It's tough, though, because the planes are well-armored, and move fast, dropping off the ammo and heading away.

Another feature which is cool is the ability to divide the screen, and keep an eye on multiple locations at once.

Man, nightime in this game is great. Everything gets dark, and your base lights up. All lights - on buildings and vechicles - can be turned on and off at your discretion. With lights off, it's much tougher to see units in the dark; but they move slower.

With the LC, they get power from the sun. At night, they are forced to use batteries. But if your battery runs out, you're screwed till dawn. I've never played a game like that; the scariest thing is to be sitting there, helpless, hoping the enemy doesn't attack. Because you're defenseless. It may seem like it'd be frusterating; but no, it's just scary.

The other two teams have differant power situations, which don't involve the sun.
Man, does this game rock.

And if you haven't already, buy "Firefly - The Complete Series". I swear, you won't regret it. Just search for it here on Amazon.
-Steve
Steve5805@yahoo.com

awesome game even after 3yrs

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

just wanted to make a note that earth 2150 and moon project also play on windows 2000. A similar game to pick up is empire earth. you will spend plenty of hours multiplayer, or single player it is very challenging, multi tasking at its best, but very enjoyable.

Not that good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 15
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game is good but the building and all units are the same color and it is hard to tell who is who and what is what. The graphics may look good generally but if you look closely the details on some things are horible! The guys who made that game made the units with diffreent shapes and lines so it make it even harder to see. Units and building are so covered with shapes and lines, that it reminds me of a low budget movie.Also when it is night in the game, You cant see anything! I have a 100% vision my friend and that game is nothing but poop.

you an't seen nothin till you get this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

okay I'l admit that I havn't been playing this game very long( 4 or five times.) I ,hower, am a huge RtS fan. I have seen and bought dozens of them. Then I found Earth 2150. I was amazed from the first day I played it. The graphics were stunning and a lot better than I'd expected. The lighting effects were excellent. There are real time day and night cycles which actually have a significant effect on gameplay. The terran has a big impact on game play. This game also involves more strategy than any so-called strategy games like Starcraft (THE worst game in the history of PC games.) It's just incredibl when you realize the incredible amount of strategy in the game. Bases are usually built on large scales and look really cool when they are big. The camera angle is easy to control. The movies and cutscenes are incredible. The graphics overall are very good and are real 3-D. In earth 2150 you choose from a huge variety and quantity of unit parts( weapons nd gadgets, ammunition type and body) and design your unit and add it to the consruction list. Part of the reson that the unit blances are so good is that you can only put some types of weapons n certain typs of unit chasis (bodies.) Still, there are over fiftty units for each side when you've used all the combinations. Each weapon that u put on a unit can accomplish it s on unique set of tasks. There are plenty of resources on the map so u ddon't ned toworr about unnning outof them. The maps them seleve are big enugh by anyone's standards. Each side ass their own uniqueset of parts to build their units. It only costed me nine bucks at Best Buy! Each side can also build briges across river. Each side also has ther own construction unit. Missile trails and explosions look good. The batles look and are spectacular. Part of the reson or this is that nearby units can be damged by flying derbies and larg exposions. Unlike wacraft 3 there water units. The sountrack is good and the story lin is very creative. Unlike in a lot of strategy games tany one of the many super eapons can be bocked. the game is just a stunning experience despite the very low price. There are also a lot of options when it comes to units. You can set the units behavior(there are quite a fw options for this), tell it to turn off its light, and if its an air unit tell it to land. The units and the sructures have a very cool futuristic look to them. Each one of the tree sides has plenty of structures and you can even customize your defensive structures. As said earlier your units and buildings can turn of their lights which can be used to your advantage in severel ways and also affects the game play in other ways. You can also build tunnels. Units don't take o long to build (like in starcraft) or to short of a time to build. There are also occasional meteor showers. It eems like the producers put extra work into every imaginabl area of the game. The story line is creative and the musicis good. There are air water and ground units. Some units can carry multiple types of weapons. Well, enough said.. I you don't have it get it. Defintaly better than Star craft of any of those other overated games (though can't wait to see what C&C Generals is going to bee like....)

Great graphics, great plot, good gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are the ..., the weather effects are tight, and the plot is pretty damn interesting. The campaings are nerve racking and can be annoying, however: build, harvest, kill. well thats what it is suppossed to be it's actually: build, research, build, harvest, research, build, research, harvest, kill, build, research, die, start over, research, research,... research,... research, build, build, be taken over by some weird hacker named NEO, build, harvest, and kill. And then die again.

And then start over again. And this is just one scenario. I dont mean to be talking ..., it's actually a pretty good game for the money, except, i got it for free.

If you've got the money and the technology, buy it. but it isn't worth getting a new computer over.

A GOOD C&C like game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Normaly I don't play ripoff games, but this one defenatly blew my mind! I often play as the United Civilied States (UCS in short). This game kinda reminds me of Total Annihilation almost too. It's 3d graphics are amazing! So a 3DFX card is required.

It's just...depressing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: February 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after trying the demo, which seemed pretty neat. However, after playing Ground Control, this game seems constricting, boring and...forgive me...depressing. Allow me to explain.

First, the graphics engine, although good looking, does not allow for full camera freedom. This means that you are limited to a top down view of the battle, unlike the far superior Ground Control where you can look wherever you want to. I personally find this quite limiting, especially considering you can't zoom out far enough to make any sort of real strategy or troop movements easily.

Also, the whole environment of the game, from the music to the seemingly omnipresent fog to the rain to the plot to the night, is just depressing. It doesn't make you WANT to play. I found myself slaving through another boring and overly long mission just to see some new technology, one of the cool parts of the game, and eventually I just gave up and moved on. There are some great lighting and weather effects, but I really don't think the atmosphere is condusive to fun gameplay.

In short: If you're looking for a great, fun, beautiful 3D RTS, buy Ground Control. This game just isn't worth the effort.

Great Concept, Poor Execution

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love RTS games in general, I recently bought Earth 2150 and have put a good 25 hours into the game. Here is what I think of it: Highs: Great futuristic scenario, cool 3d engine, great weapons. Lows: User interface, software bugs, hard to control units in the heat of battle. The biggest problem with this game is the user interface. Compared to other RTS games such as Age of Kings, or Command and Conquer, this game offers a very awkward and counter-intuitive user interface. The so called Total 3D Warfare loses it's "Wow" factor pretty quickly. It is a decent buy overall, especially with the price cut by a third, but I wouldn't call it one of the greatest real time strategy game around. The designers should take cues from other RTS games on the GUI, then this game will be a contender. Overall, the game's OK, nothing to stay up for.

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