Earth 2160

It's a game that has some extremely genius design buried under terrible quality of life and general gameplay issues. Apart from the obnoxious registration upon first startup, there is a lot of good and a lot of bad here. I've never seen faction design this inspired, especially in terms of base building/space management. Vehicles are modular, based on what faction you play you might need different armor or weapons, and it's all just really interesting to play. Factions are radically different in terms of focus, you get tanks and vehicles, futuristic hovercraft, biological nightmares or hordes or battle mechs. - The Eurasian Dynasty builds large, interconnected complexes that all have to be connected via tubes - The Lunar Corp can call down buildings from orbit anywhere on the map, but only ever 5 buildings can be queued at the same time, their man buildings are stackable from several modules - The UCS builds large energy networks across the map, and is based on decentralization and modularity - Aliens don't have any buildings except defense, they literally just clone or mutate from the same basic alien, literally no game up to this day has done anything more innovative in terms of faction design Each faction gets a campaign, and missions are interestingly challenging, but do not vary much. The story and dialogue are sub-par through and through, and the biggest issue of this game is the terrible unit AI and pathfinding. The maps are generally small and units do not retain formation or cohesion, greatly detracting from the gameplay. With some more polish this game could have easily been a gem, because it did bring the genre forward, but nobody noticed it because its innovations and ingenuity were buried under a layer of terrible UX.

Советую, игра супер! Особенно если у вас старое железо, а играть нужно

Unique RTS. Too bad you need community mods for the game to even boot on modern systems.

Auf Windows 10/11 nicht mehr spielbar. Klar gibt es im Internet Workarounds. Aber das sollte, so nicht sein. Eine deutliche Warnung, dass das Spiel nur auf älteren Systemen läuft wäre 1. angebracht. und 2. sollte das Spiel nicht mehr zum Verkauf stehen.

[i]Earth 2160[/i], on its own, is a broken vestige of an RTS from the mid-2000s with units that difficult to distinguish from another without microscope, unofficial patches to get the video game to operate relatively smoothly on modern devices, terrible voice acting and dialogue, and crackbrained Friendly AI that will allow enemies to mow them down due to the building they are hunkered down in lowering their firing range. And just because the screenshots look high-resolution suspiciously compared to actual gameplay, I will assume the worst and say that there was some photo manipulation to deceive and sell the product better. All of this, and yet they still felt the need to hardcode a digital rights management system into the game that would soon become broken years later, even now, forcing buyers to look up obscure websites and patches to fix the game they had bought and intended to play. Even if this were freeware, the process of installing and fixing it would outweigh the possibility of having fun with antiquated controls and gameplay mechanics.

aliens look gross. in a good way. nice texture work.‍

ED faction is for tank lovers. big treads big guns boom.‍

good for collecting cards

A surprisingly enjoyable experience with satisfying gameplay and a nice atmosphere. I found myself playing longer than expected and always wanting to complete one more objective.‍

UCS mechs stomping around sounds so satisfying.‍