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Great Ideas, but...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: December 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Thats all there is to it. I had read countless reviews about how wonderful this game was, only to find that it is an unfortuntate excuse for a RTS. This game deserves credit in the sense that it has great graphics, story line, and gameplay variety; but it lacks any real fun value. For example, any player new to the real-time strategy genre will be overwhelmed by the excessivly numerous option availible to you. Don't get me wrong: I love a varied RTS. But this one embellished far too much on graphics to pay attention to anything else. The sound is cheap, providing each unit with only limited dialogue, and for that matter every unit on each of the three sides has the same voice/dialogue. Often times it's difficult to hear unit acknowledgements or explosions and gunfire, so you don't even have the slightest idea when you're being attacked. The game's physics are ridiculus, giving a gigantic cumbersome air/space craft vehicle with the instaneous speed and manuverability of a cheetah. In addition to poor sound quality, and bad unit movements, the most obvious impediment to the player is layout. Sure, you collect minerals and build an army right? Essentially yes, but its not that easy. You have to specifically research and design each unit's chassis, weaponary, defenses, after which you've probably been attacked before you have built what could be considered an army. Even if you do get a large army established, there is still the fact that you have to keep researching and SPECIFIACALLY design each unit AGAIN, in order to stay at the top of the technology tree. The units even look the same on your construction menus (which often get confused with the structure menus), and they are all a solid same color, with the same simple voice acknowledgments. I don't mean to be a bitter grape, saying all this amongst all these 5 star reviews, but believe me--I know what I'm talking about. Every reviewer who says that this game is revolutionary only sees how different this game is to other RTS'in the fact that it has good graphics. So overall this game has beautiful graphics, but crappy gameplay. Suffice to say, if you want an easy to learn, difficult to master, and fun to play game then buy something GOOD like Red Alert 2 (great units and interface) or Starcraft (neat variety)but don't buy Earth 2150 for all that it has going for it is astonishing graphics, and an insanely overated interface of confusing and unecessary options.

Good grafics but average gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: June 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I recently downloaded the incredibly big demo of Earth 2150. I thought it had impressive 3d grafics and all that other stuff but ultimatly all the rotation just made the game confusing. Some of your units don't even do what they tell you. I think all the game comes down to is another bad game like Tiberian Sun. They make it look cool when it isn't really fun.

Money better spent elsewhere

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: August 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I owned this game for less than 2 hours. I recommend you download the 2150 demo, play it, uninstall it, then go buy Ground Control. It's a much better game.

To complex for me, dudes:(

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Graphics look ok, sound's ok, but I for one do not wish to spend a few hours studying the manual before being able to play a game. And even then it's a drag to input all your commands and having to return all your troops and credits to the staging area at the end of each mission!

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.

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.

Expected more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game expecting to sit down and not be able to get up for at least two hours. I ended up etting up after 20 minutes. I have played many RTS games and enjoy them very much, but I just couldn't get into Earth 2150. It is very complicated and I had to go over the instruction booklet several times. I also like a good multiplayer game. THis game does include good options, but it is hard to find people to play against. I wouldnt give this game the reviews I have seen it get on internet sites. Its just your average game in my opinion.

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.

Think of this as 4.5 stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: October 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a beautiful 3D real-time strategy game. Earth 2150 brings to the ground what Homeworld introduced to the genre. The terrain is gorgeous and deformable. The camera is very easy to use. Unique overall campaign goals to keep in mind in addition to mission goals adds a lot of depth to the game.

Speaking of depth, you can even take the battle underground in tunnels! You have to manage power for your buildings, your research needs, and whether you spend the credits you mine or send them back to the main base. You even design the units you will build by picking a base vehicle and its equipment.

All of this depth is what I find fascinating about this game; it has all this stuff crammed in, and it's even fun to play! The only problems I have with this game are with the manual. It gives a decent overview, but doesn't give a lot of details about the units, buildings, or advanced features (like platoons). But there are very good tutorials, so RTS vets can jump right in.

Earth 2150 plays great and looks great, and there is a lot to do in it. It even runs pretty well on my PII 400MHz, 96MB RAM, and 8MB ATI 3D Rage Pro integrated AGP video.

technically great, but I got bored quickly

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have only ever given up RTS games before because they were too simple graphically or in gameplay. I have played Warcraft I & II, AoE/K, Starcraft, RedAlert, etc obsessively, even still like LoTR II despite the simple graphics and dated structure as its a great game.

Earth 2150 is a technical and visual marvel but just doesn't quite deliver the strategy gaming advances promised. Also a lousy manual and not great tutorial secnario.

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