I've been a big fan of RTS' and the like for awhile, having really enjoyed the Empire Earth series and The Moon Project. After playing TMP i was looking forward to Earth 2160 which turns out to be one of the worst RTS i've ever played. This game ****es me off in so many ways and i feel i need to release some anger by posting here. If at least 1 person benefits from this rant, i'll feel better.
Here goes.
Pros:
1)beautiful graphics, explosions, lighting, textures, etc,etc. Requires hi-end system for all the eye candy.
2)New base building system is interesting and all 4 factions have different buildings.
3)Units can get in and out of vehicles and retain their experience.
Cons:
1)Lame music.
2)Laughably sad voice acting and dialog.(the same guy who did Farcry and Advanced Battlegrounds(aka. Chrome)).
3)Uninteresting story, possibly because of the voice acting.
4)Cannot play at an accelerated speed without using a code. Instead they have an "advance 1 minute in time" feature that has no business in an rts.
5)Research tree is very unorganized.
6)Unit Build screen sucks ass, as you may have 4 or 5 units that look the same but with different weapons or armor, and mousing over the icon does not tell you which unit is which. Very poor interface.
7)While in the middle of an intense firefight, a popup window might show up pertaining to the mission or story, which leaves you unable to control your troops until you esc,esc,esc,esc,esc past all the dialog, meanwhile your guys are getting annihilated. And yes, you need to babysit them cause they are incredibly stupid. Have had an enemy roll right into the middle of my squad of 15 and kill 3 before my guys started shooting back.
8)Pathfinding is horrible.
9)Although your units can gain experience as in The Moon Project, its basically useless because they will mostly be killed early in their existance for this game is unusually hard even on the easy level. A patch was released to fix this issue but i dont see any difference. And besides, your units dont seem to carry over from mission to mission. A few do but not all.
10)Units will be destroyed with no mention that they are even under attack. Have lost several harvesters this way and the only way i realized this was my resources were all at 0.
11)The game is basically dark but if you scroll over the Fog of War, It turns your screen into a very bright likeness of "Television Snow". Very hard on the eyes.
12)no escort function.
13)If i try to send a group of infantry to a transporter by clicking on the transporter, they run in super super-slo motion. So i have to click the ground NEXT to the transporter and wait for them to arrive, and THEN click on the transporter. I shouldnt have to be concerned about this while battle wages on. I think the patch was supposed to fix this also, but again i see no change.
These are only the problems i can think of right now and i know i'm forgeting a few. I just hope whoever reads this realizes this game is not worth buying if you dont want the frustration that goes with it. Its too bad too cause i was really looking forward to this game.
Thank you, have a nice day.
Here goes.
Pros:
1)beautiful graphics, explosions, lighting, textures, etc,etc. Requires hi-end system for all the eye candy.
2)New base building system is interesting and all 4 factions have different buildings.
3)Units can get in and out of vehicles and retain their experience.
Cons:
1)Lame music.
2)Laughably sad voice acting and dialog.(the same guy who did Farcry and Advanced Battlegrounds(aka. Chrome)).
3)Uninteresting story, possibly because of the voice acting.
4)Cannot play at an accelerated speed without using a code. Instead they have an "advance 1 minute in time" feature that has no business in an rts.
5)Research tree is very unorganized.
6)Unit Build screen sucks ass, as you may have 4 or 5 units that look the same but with different weapons or armor, and mousing over the icon does not tell you which unit is which. Very poor interface.
7)While in the middle of an intense firefight, a popup window might show up pertaining to the mission or story, which leaves you unable to control your troops until you esc,esc,esc,esc,esc past all the dialog, meanwhile your guys are getting annihilated. And yes, you need to babysit them cause they are incredibly stupid. Have had an enemy roll right into the middle of my squad of 15 and kill 3 before my guys started shooting back.
8)Pathfinding is horrible.
9)Although your units can gain experience as in The Moon Project, its basically useless because they will mostly be killed early in their existance for this game is unusually hard even on the easy level. A patch was released to fix this issue but i dont see any difference. And besides, your units dont seem to carry over from mission to mission. A few do but not all.
10)Units will be destroyed with no mention that they are even under attack. Have lost several harvesters this way and the only way i realized this was my resources were all at 0.
11)The game is basically dark but if you scroll over the Fog of War, It turns your screen into a very bright likeness of "Television Snow". Very hard on the eyes.
12)no escort function.
13)If i try to send a group of infantry to a transporter by clicking on the transporter, they run in super super-slo motion. So i have to click the ground NEXT to the transporter and wait for them to arrive, and THEN click on the transporter. I shouldnt have to be concerned about this while battle wages on. I think the patch was supposed to fix this also, but again i see no change.
These are only the problems i can think of right now and i know i'm forgeting a few. I just hope whoever reads this realizes this game is not worth buying if you dont want the frustration that goes with it. Its too bad too cause i was really looking forward to this game.
Thank you, have a nice day.
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