Perimeter

I don't normally write reviews, but this game is so utterly crap that I feel I have a responsibility to warn others about it. I set out looking for a good RTS, with a simple and descriptive interface. I did not find that in Perimeter. All I found here was a confusing and boring game with few options and limited controls. Not only are there no descriptions or tooltips for units or buildings, but you only get a limited number of builders, which you have to distribute as either ground maintenance (they call it terraforming, but it's more like watching slow, old ladies working in the garden) or building builders. Seriously, you only get like 5. Another thing is that your army turns into a blob of tiny pixel-units. Your whole army becomes basically one unit. Even if you have multiple objectives on a mission, you have one blob-unit to take care of everything. Or maybe I'm stupid, and just couldn't figure out how to split them into smaller armies, but as I said before: this game lacks in descriptions, instructions and tooltips. The story is original, but you just can't make up how horrible the gameplay is. I was so frustrated with this game that I dove right back into searching for a good RTS that I forgot to get my money back for this thing. At this point, I just wish I could remove it from my library.

One of the better RTS games, especially when you consider that it has a nice system. I bought it around when it came out, and it's definitely worth it.

INsanely frustrating and difficult. Not just strange game mechanics, the difficulty settings are BROKEN. You'll making agonizingly slow progess, and suddenly be overwhelmed and out of energy: game over, Again. The weirdo novelty wears off fast, as it consists of just making things elaborately complex, thus slow, thus the computer will beat you to the punch every time. You'll finish maybe four scenarios, and the rest are so hard it's ridiculous. Waste of time. Ripoff game unless you are a sick masochist who loves frustration.

To far off from my normal RTS games. I will try to play more but lost interest really quick. I gave it two stars because it seems like if you spend maybe more then a few minutes trying to learn game play it would be awesome. I just don't have that time. I was looking for a missed game from my glory days that I could pick up and play through in my spare time. This wasn't it...

I bought this game retail at full price when it originally came out. I was very disappointed and didn't progress very far before I wrote the game off. Even on fairly early stages I played, despite trying every tactic I could think of, most of the time I was outright beaten. Some of this maybe down to my style, but I tried over and over again. A great deal of the time you just do not know how to progress. I remember being particularly bemused as to how to cope with the burrowing enemies. Often it seems every tactic you take, another enemy tactic takes you out. Perhaps that is the challenge here, but I am no stranger to these games or what is involved, but I could still not get into it. Unless you want a very confusing and bewildering game, or are a fan of the genre looking for a different twist, I would not recommend this game.