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Ground Control ROCKS! email me limpbizcuit@stupid.com

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 27
Date: May 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best RTS games I personally have ever played. I signed up for a beta multiplar cd, and guess what, I got it. I've been playing the multiplayer version, for over a month now. I just recieved my pc-gamer and inside was a full campaign for Ground Control. I opened it up and played it. If you have enough monitor to put it up to 1024X860 or whatever, I recommend you do. With that much resolution, the game is so realistic. Sierra did a nice job on the sand, sky, infantry, and even the trees, look real. You can get a wide range of units, ranging from a infantry soldier, to the best tank or even a bomber/fighter. I recently beat the demo, and one mission is excepsionally fun. You get artillery, and the graphics rule on explosions. If you zoom down you can see your guys blasting away. It's an incredible game. There are also special weapons you troops can get, infantry/mortar launchers, tanks/rockets. If you have a strond stomach(kinda) zoom in on the enemy troops, and then attack them with artillery, it's kinda bloody. This game is really good, I would recommend it to all, good singal player, and multiplayer. If I could have I would have given it 100 stars!

Incredible real-time tactics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: May 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Rather than the following the standard RTS formula of 80% resource management mixed with 20% battle tactics, this game follows the precedent set by the Myth series. You choose from a selection of units before the mission, along with a number of different configurations and equipment packs. You may choose to equip your infantry squads as stealthy, far-sighted Jaegers, or you might decide to outfit them as slow, powerful grunts. Special equipment including deployable sentry guns, explosive or armor-piercing ammunition, and vision-enhancers is also available. You must also choose which squads are necessary for a mission, since space on the dropships is limited. Control is at the squad level, with sizes ranging from 1 heavy artillery cannon to 8 marines. Proper coordination of different units is necessary for success. Your artillery might have enough firepower to turn the enemy into a smoking crater, but without proper scouting it becomes useless. This game also does what few other RTS games has ever accomplished; it successfully implements chain of command. Keep your Command APC safe, or your troops will be completely ineffective.

The graphics are good but not particularly distinguished, and the controls are reasonably simple, including all the standard elements of RTS (hotkeyed groups, formations, etc.) and adding a few nice touches, such as the ability to set a squad's movement and firing styles (rush blindly ahead firing at anyone who shows his face, or advance cautiously and sneakily to the enemy rear). The effects of high ground, rear and flank attacks, and suppressive fire are also well implemented.

I'd recommend this game to Myth fans, as well as to anyone who enjoys the strategy elements of RTS more than the resource management aspects.

Ground Control is the best 3D RTS game of all time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Last week I purchased the PC Gamer magazine (June '00) issue and in it it brought a CD with demos and it had a world exclusive of Ground Control! I was all hyped up and immediately left the bookstore after purchasing it and went home to play it! Once I got home, I played the demo for 2 hours straight! I still haven't beaten the demo because the third real mission is pretty tough. Anyway, I recommend that anyone who likes action purchase this game. It comes out on June 2! Don't be lead out onto not liking it because it's a 3d real-time-strategy(3D RTS). I don't care much about RTS but once I played this one, it blew me away! This is the incredible action-packed sci-fi 3D RTS game I have ever played and believe me, I have played hundreds of PC games and own alot of them too. You can bet that I'll buy it once it comes out! You definitely should too! You can see what you're missing by downloading the demo in massiveentertainment.com, or much easier, buy the PC Gamer June '00 issue in your local newstand and/or bookstore.

I will never play earth 2150 again!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you are like me and you love RTS games but you hate all the building and researching it takes to get decent units then this game is for you. In ground control you are given your units and given a task to complete. NO building, NO researching. Only combat. Of course as you go along you will earn bigger and better units, but the ones you start with are by no means flimsy. and I garauntee that the units you start with will be units you continue to use even at the end of the game. The little marine infantry units are actually WORTH SOMETHING...almost a first for RTS games. The graphics are fantastic (even without an expensive store-bought video card). And you can move the camera from a high altitude view for a better overall look....or you can get the camera literally 4 feet off the ground for "in the thick of it" viewing. If you like real time strategies....GET THIS GAME!!!

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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