This game has been extremely underestimated in earlier reviews. It is not dark and bloody. It involves only machines who fight one another, but each faction has no unfair advantage since they all share the same technologies. This makes it a perfect game for younger people or those new to real-time strategy gaming. Perhaps it broke no new ground in terms of a revolutionary new concept, but the execution was brilliant, and the graphics still hold their own after several years have passed. It is necessary to locate underground deposits of resources in order to build better and better facilities and units. This indeed requires some strategy, since you can get way up the technology tree, but suddenly have insufficient resources to build what you need, while your opponents chip away at all of your progress. Also, if you settle a base for resource mining, but it is not guarded well enough, you can lose it to an enemy attack. The save game feature is excellent, surpassing many games that have come along since. This game deserves some special recognition, because while it involves a kind of fighting, is has no sinister tone or feeling to it. Since it involves machines and not humans or animals, there is no surrogate feeling of lives being wasted as the conflict progresses. If you are an experienced gamer, you may have a tendency to dismiss this as a simple game, but it is not. There are plenty of ways to keep it interesting, like the ability to enter a single unit, and get right into the fray. It also has the added benefit that you don't have to be an experienced gamer to start enjoying RTS computer games if you can just find yourself a copy of this game. The challenge is that it would be hard to top the strengths of this game without making it too difficult for many players. Perhaps with an adjustable difficulty level, and some minor variation in the types of units available, everybody could enjoy hours and hours of entertainment from one of the best game concepts around. Hello, developers, is anybody listening?
Hi, This game was my first RTS game, it made me consider to play other RTS games as well. Now after 8 years, I still haven't found a game slightly similar. It was one of the first real 3D RTS, with the very special ab... Read Full Review
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