The Vault Dweller
always looking for water.
I recently finished Warzone 2100. It's an old RTS that at first came out for the Playstation then had a very limited PC release. The problem is since consoles aren't known for their RTS games and the PC release was very limited the game became unheard of.
It's totally undeserved. The game has a very unique game mechanic for the tech tree that makes sense and is very fun to use. You find pieces of technology salvaged from locations and research it to be used. You can also apply the same technology to things you other techs you already have. The explanation for needing to find tech is that the setting is post-apocalyptic and much was lost during the "event" which destroyed most of the world and left the survivors to scavenge to survive. Best of all is the very unique game mechanic (and I think the only game with this) where you design your units from a variety of parts. You have its propulsion, body, and turret and each has many different types. All units even gain experience. However this wasn't very fulfilling since it takes forever to get a unit to hero (the highest of ten ranks of exp.) and a hero unit isn't even double what a normal unit's abilities are.
It's a shame though that mulitiplayer is only possible by organizing a get together. There isn't a system to meet other players (like Blizzards battlenet) and it's a shame, because I think with the mechanic of having to find tech and building your own units would make for a very interesting multiplayer experience. I haven't played multiplayer so I have no idea what it's like, but I would hope that you start out with all the basic technology unupgraded and can search ruins or raid small settlements to find tech you don't have or better examples to upgrades the ones you do have. Then when you and your opponent actually engage each other you have very different forces depending on what you found (making it random would be awesome!).
Oh and even if you think the game sounds barely playable and not really good let me remind you it's free.
http://wz2100.net/
I have one very big warning however. The game is quite hard. I play RTS a lot and most of my time is spent in multiplayer where you learn the real skills and playing this I barely finished the last few missions. I was playing on normal difficulty. If you have never played a RTS online competitively I would suggest you set it to easy. I just hope it's easy enough.
Also there is one small exploit (yeah I barely completed the campaign and I used an exploit) is that the missions are timed and if you have the mission almost complete with lots of time left wait until the last few minutes to complete it so you can spend more time and resources researching and building. Everything you have from one mission caries over to the next...tech, buildings, and yes even units!
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
It's totally undeserved. The game has a very unique game mechanic for the tech tree that makes sense and is very fun to use. You find pieces of technology salvaged from locations and research it to be used. You can also apply the same technology to things you other techs you already have. The explanation for needing to find tech is that the setting is post-apocalyptic and much was lost during the "event" which destroyed most of the world and left the survivors to scavenge to survive. Best of all is the very unique game mechanic (and I think the only game with this) where you design your units from a variety of parts. You have its propulsion, body, and turret and each has many different types. All units even gain experience. However this wasn't very fulfilling since it takes forever to get a unit to hero (the highest of ten ranks of exp.) and a hero unit isn't even double what a normal unit's abilities are.
It's a shame though that mulitiplayer is only possible by organizing a get together. There isn't a system to meet other players (like Blizzards battlenet) and it's a shame, because I think with the mechanic of having to find tech and building your own units would make for a very interesting multiplayer experience. I haven't played multiplayer so I have no idea what it's like, but I would hope that you start out with all the basic technology unupgraded and can search ruins or raid small settlements to find tech you don't have or better examples to upgrades the ones you do have. Then when you and your opponent actually engage each other you have very different forces depending on what you found (making it random would be awesome!).
Oh and even if you think the game sounds barely playable and not really good let me remind you it's free.
http://wz2100.net/
I have one very big warning however. The game is quite hard. I play RTS a lot and most of my time is spent in multiplayer where you learn the real skills and playing this I barely finished the last few missions. I was playing on normal difficulty. If you have never played a RTS online competitively I would suggest you set it to easy. I just hope it's easy enough.
Also there is one small exploit (yeah I barely completed the campaign and I used an exploit) is that the missions are timed and if you have the mission almost complete with lots of time left wait until the last few minutes to complete it so you can spend more time and resources researching and building. Everything you have from one mission caries over to the next...tech, buildings, and yes even units!
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
