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Grounded?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: October 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Maybe. But the graphics are excellent. Best RTS ever? No way! While it has its moments, it also has its problems. Again, graphics are terrific. Some of the units are cool, but some of the air units they have can't attack anything, so why have them! The missions are a joke for the most part. I played this game for 3 days totaling about 8 hours and beat 14 missions. A little too easy if you ask me. The screen movement is alot like Myth, it ... . Its tough to find a good line of sight and you can't get a good look at the battles going on because if move in too close, then you miss getting attacked somewhere else. Plus they have a bunch of icons all over the screen that block your view. The music is also good. The cinematics were good as was the story. I expected a little more from a Sierra product especially after Half-life. Overall, I did enjoy the game. I would have liked it more if it was a little harder. Kinda of stinks to spend that kind of money for such an easy game.

Disappointed with Ground Control.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

THis game is not as good as I anticipated from the reviews. The motion is choppy, control response is poor and my computer locks up during game play. I opened it and now I have to keep it. Keep away from this one.

Excellent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I'm not going to say much except for this: I have seen people review his game..., saying there is no "replay" option after playing missions and that you can't play as the Order (bad guys, supposedly) NOT TRUE, DANGIT! You CAN play as the Order, after completing the Crayven Campaign. Replay? Of course! Bottom right corner on the HUD for your next missions' planning! ...

Buy it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is good, and fun. I can play it for a long time. Buy it.

This game is AWSOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is probably the best RTS game out there. Its got great graphics, an awsome camera and, amazingly, unit speech that ISN'T annoying! Another thing is the level of customization. You can customize what you're bringing on your mission, and what type it is (scout,light,regular, or heavy) and the attributes (recon/speed,offensive,defensive,balanced). You can also customize the special weapons.

The plot is amazing. Just when you think you know where this game is going, *WHAM* it changes course.

The game is very unlike other RTS games of it's time, such as StarCraft and Warcraft 2. Instead of the extroardinary boringness of building up a base, gathering resources, tech tree, etc, you get your units instantly as the dropship comes in and you have no base to defend(except on certain defence missions). The only thing you really have to defend is your units.

The unit experience in this game is excellent. Instead of micromanaging every single unit, you control squads, which levels up your units faster.
Ex. My Light Terradyne Squad leveled up! (Ground Control)
Ex. 2 of my 12 Grizzly tanks got promoted! (Red Alert Two)

Tell me about another game that has all of your units HP, type, how many units left in the squad, KIA or not, whether they are taking damage, and favorite pizza topping in a small transparent tablet smaller than your big toe? Ok, maybe not the pizza topping, but thats beside the point. The "Hide Squad Button" command literally hides them. I mean not "Here is a little thing to show you where they used to be" kind of hiding, i mean GONE kind of hiding.

The in-game sound effects are great. Move the camera to the top of a cliff, you hear the wind (Or is that artillery shots?). Move closer to your Marine squad running from a squad of Attack Aerodynes, you hear their footsteps. Get a close-up on a Light Terradyne, the engine gets louder.

The only only only thing in this game that is needed is the addition of a regular APC's so you don't get your Command APC vaporized by trying to drop troops into battle.

Those who think this game needs water units, you are SO wrong. Water units would not be able to follow your land units to the enemy base. They would be practically worthless. I'm not talking about amphibious units (which actually would be an awsome addition) I'm talking about battleships and so on. And besides, there is no water in any of the maps anyway.

I also like the secret(s). If you find more than this one, please post a review. If you click on the fish in the credits about 25 times (or more, I'm not sure) it explodes and you hear singing.

One thing about this game however, is that it is rather difficult. The easiest missions are the "Seek and Destroy" missions. The hardest one's are escort missions and defence missions.

Overall this game is totally awsome and I hope you buy it so that you can expierience the shocking amazingness of this great game.

The best... period.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Forget Earth 2150, this is the game to buy. Don't let people scare you into thinking you need a major system to run this game. I bought Ground Control and it ran "out of the box". Now, when I bought the game I didn't have a great graphics card, and only 64M RAM but the game ran, ran well, and looked decent enough to be very playable. I recently upgraded to a mid-level graphics card, added 128M RAM and now this game is unbelievable. The detail in graphics is incredible, the playability is superb, and the story-line is second-to-none. Get it, play it, enjoy it.

Best Game in this Genre

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

An awesom game frequently overlooked. Ground Control didnt get in the spotlight or receive much attention due to market problems upon development. This game is definately more deserving than 95% of other games in its class(no lie). Superb graphics, plenty of tactical/strategic options and an intuitive interface and the unit's move inteligently(like their supposed to).

Blow the dust off and enjoy Ground Control again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just recently found an old PC Gamer magazine demo disc with Ground Control on it. I loaded it up and played the 3 level demo and was hooked. I purchased the full version and was so sorry that this one passed me by when it was "new". The camera control and angles are so awsome and extremely easy to use, perhaps a tip some of the other design houses could incorporate. The story is good and just when you think it's the same old run of the mill plot it will throw you a curve and just have you enjoying it even more. The unit control is very interesting, being that you control squads not just one person or vehicle at a time. I guess to sum it all up, this is just a great RTS and right now be it that it is one of the old ones... Getting a good new game is fine, re-disovering a great old one is even better.

Great action and strategy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game that does NOT burden the player with the boring and typical resource collecting and technology trees of other games. In each scenario you have a certain number of units at a certain strength; you have some ability to repair damage, but once your men die, they are gone for the scenario, and in campaigns, have to be replaced by less experienced (effective) new units. This game was easy to learn, but hard to get really good at, which is another good point about it.

Please I Need to know

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

well i belive this game is the awesomest game but i want to buy it and well im not sure if ill get the mac version or the windows ver. i need the win. ver. please help how would i know wich im getting

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