Posted on: November 7, 2018

wilkan

Gry: 509 Opinie: 157

A stable port of the crashing DOS RTS

I owned the original boxed version of this game. Getting sounds to work with that took some work and even then it would crash every couple of hours. I am definitely not a fan of that version. I tried it a for a couple of hours and registered no issues with sound, game speed or anything else. People comment that the AI was awful in this one, though I am pretty sure it was awful in the original one too and in RTS games in general (with Dark Reign being a notable exception). I did notice enemies attacking my base and all that jazz, so the complaints seem pretty outdated. The music tracks were the same as in the original release. I would notice as a couple of them are my all time favourites. I did not hear any new tracks, so I guess those ones do not play during the default campaigns. That's okay as they frankly suck. Overall, a very solid RTS with unorthodox units such as rocket + twin laser tank and a plasma bomber. No way a game with so many boring "destroy all enemy units" missions can get 5. Even 4 out of 5 is pushing it. The almost Red Alert level battle AI of at least some ED tank units (the ones with independent turrets) makes the game so much more fun and effortless to play for me, hence the above-average rating.

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Posted on: April 21, 2024

Northzin

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Gry: Opinie: 3

Old, fine game but also old mechanics.

It was a free game me and my joining for gog.com very long time ago. Get a.i enchanced dos version installator from download tab and play only that way, I dont' know why you are complaing about multiplayer. It is said that developer never finished network code, Great game but old mechanics can discourage players. Played it first time in about 1999/2000... Interface is old and unit management is difficult when the game came in there was games with better interface. Get it on 75% like many times it game was or get Earth 2150 or 2160 instead. They got better interfaces and unit management is easier, like in modern games, not so clumsy.

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Posted on: January 7, 2018

Pherim

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Gry: Opinie: 25

Seriously, why the high rating?

I really cannot recommend this game and I don't get all the good reviews and the overall four-star rating. Ok, I can see how this may have been a passable RTS in '97, but this is 2018 and there are hundreds of better games in this genre available you could be playing instead. I'm just glad I got it for free. - As many have mentioned, in the windows version the AI is broken and will probably never get fixed, just as the "HD" version on Steam. - The included DOS version, while with working AI, runs poorly and in a very low resolution - The graphics may have been ok for the time and there are some nice effects, but as I said, this is 2018 and literally every game of the last 15-20 years looks better. Maps are bland and either completely brown or green, I didn't play long enough to see if there are more colors. Ugly rendered cutscenes. - The Campaigns are boring and repetitive, nothing interesting happening here, at all. Story almost non-existent. - No real strategy involved, as far as I could tell. Just build masses of strong units and steamroll the enemy before he does the same. - Construction is frustrating and unintuitive. You construct vehicles in the main building, similar to the MCV in C&C, but here for every type of building, which then crawl to where you want the building to be and you only whether there is enough space there when it has arrived. - The music, while it may be the best part of the game, doesn't really fit the theme and gets repetitive and annoying after some time. All in all, this is really not worth anyone's time in 2018. When this was originally released, C&C: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert had already been out for some time, soon after it came Age of Empires, and a year later we got StarCraft. I also hear Total Annihilation is quite good, although I have yet to play it. So there had not really been a reason to play this 20 years ago, and there certainly is none, today.

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Posted on: November 21, 2018

starfury2

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Gry: 35 Opinie: 1

AI

Unplayable due to AI issues. Shame, it is my favorite childhood alternative to Red Alert.

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Posted on: April 10, 2018

Foxysen

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Gry: 356 Opinie: 39

Unique yet bland & flawed, doesn't grab

Earth 2140 is RTS which is best compared to Command And Conquer. It did came out in 1997. And this version comes with two missions packs too, albeit it doesn't matter as you aren't likely to beat the base game due to how repetitive samey and bland missions are. Pretty much no plot, yo. The version you run by default is Windows one, known for being worthless due to broked down AI, completely. DOS one comes as bonus. Which is a proper version, yes, so have fun pressing Y until it finally able to initiatize sound on startup, have slowdowns at times, but don't just increase cycles of DOSBOS as it wrecks audio. No Mission Packs OST in-game. And well, for it's time, it was a nice effort. Two factions, seemingly same, yet quite different. No unit is universal, they actually counter each other and not in just "this weapon does better on this armor type". Actually, I don't think it has that. Instead it's all based on ability to fire while moving, slow fire grenades being thrown, or something powerful yet glass cannon, vehicles being too fast for some weapons, such stuff. Yea, you will have to micro. Albeit game sadly fails to explain this. Or to explain a lot of mechanics. It also has Generals AI where you can set some units to either go on defence or offence over whole map. It's pretty good. It's useful, but more due to default AI of your units not bothering to fight back if some soldier nearby is getting shot at from far away. So it's nice that you can set some units on Offensive General while you directly control key units, such as soldiers to take over important buildings. Yea, it works out great. But eh, controls. Outdated interface. I ended game early on because I couldn't bother to manually fix pathfinding of all the sea transportation units that transport tanks onto land with enemy base that doesn't stop producing. I would rather Dune 2 on Sega Genesis. That one is the best anyway. Eh, unique but it fails to grab my attention and controls heavily put me away.

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