Alien Nations

Good game but as far as I know there should be a "tools.exe" to manage the resolutions. Playing the game in 800x600 on a 1440p monitor is pain for the eyes...

Best OOOld game! :D

The game is nice, but it suffers from all the problems of a RTCB (Real Time CIty Builder) This is not an RTS. City building is the main focus. More akin to games like Settlers and Cultures.

The core gameplay being based of the settlers with a couple of twists such as the automated defensive troops and walls and so on, this makes for vary good gameplay however the game suffers from many graphical glitches on most systems including windows xp, this makes the game basically unplayable for most people.

I spent quite a few hours with this game hoping it would get better before I went to review it, but it just seemed to get worse. I love city building games but this one has to much micromanagement. You have to constantly select every gatherer and tell them to go to the next berry bush and when you have a late-game city and you're trying to wage war or build a more advanced economy with multiple cities as well as start trade relations with other nations...it makes it almost impossible to focus. Add to that a disorienting mini-map situation and no way to automatically select those idle workers who need to be pointed at the next bush...and you're in for some lack of fun in the sun. The game is also painfully slow in the beginning. So much so that you find yourself doing other things around the house while you wait. Once you get a lot of workers you'll be sweating just trying to keep them on simple tasks (like gathering berries). The other thing I've found and I've seen many other posts about this on the internet as your city grows there isn't a way to start mass producing food...and famine becomes a very real problem that there's no solution that I've found for. You have to build tons of mushroom farms and constantly revisit those cities and tell them to convert the mushrooms to food because they won't do it automatically. It also crashes randomly on my PC. There's nothing really wrong with it, it's just...not very fun at the level it was designed at.