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Globe 2150 occurs as real-time strategy game, originally published by SSI and a Polish developer Reality Pump, and the sequel to the largely unknown Earth 2140. It was one of a 1st commercial good-3D games of its sort, although Pumpkin Studios' Warzone 2100 was released in the U.s. market before Globe 2150. The sequel to Globe 2150, Earth 2160, has been published in August 2005. A game besides has ii have-alone expansion packs. Earth 2150: The Moon Project, and Earth 2150:Lost Souls.

Story

Ascribable a series of nuclear explosions at the n pole consequent from either a war between the United Civilized States & a Eurasian Dynasty, a Earth has been knocked out of orbit, & around two or three months is hurled into a Sun. Caring that a Earth’s orbit has be unstable, a third faction residing peacefully on the moon called the Lunar Corporation joins a war. A objective of the game is to collect plenty resources to build an Evacuation Ship, letting your systems humans to journey to Mars and escape the looming halocaust. Despite similarities in name only, genre & gameplay & plotline Globe 2150 is nohow connected by having Warzone 2100.

The races

Globe 2150 consists of Tercet unique factions.

United Civilized States: This faction occurs as demarchy that controls North & South United states. A title implies that a United States of America gradually expanded its borders to include both continents. A United Civilized States (or even UCS for short) occurs as race of hedonists who refuse to do anything that is non pleasurable - so, it use at times created robots to maintain the technique. Since war is not by a blame sight enjoyable, military robots are a norm. These two-footed automaton, or even mecha, are even as efficacious as a person-piloted vehicle. the UCS has a robotic theme to its structures & vehicles. It use exclusive access to such right weapons when grenade launchers, shadow generators, & plasma cannons.

Eurasian Dynasty: Essentially the freshly Mongol Empire based in Russia, the Eurasian Dynasty (or even ED for short) have primitive (by 22nd Century standards) technology like tanks and helicopters. When such, a ED has a virtually all basic methods of power generation & needlessly complicated resource gathering. Basic ED units come armed using machine guns, 105mm cannons, & launcher when extra advanced vehicles may be equipped using optical maser cannons, ion & nuclear missles. A ED has an industrial, Soviet-esque theme to its structures & vehicles.

Lunar Corporation: A Lunar Corporation (or even LC for short) come space settler whom colonized a Moon & cut themselves murder from either Globe before long when World War 3 (note - World War Triplet is non a war around Globe 2140, nor would it be a war withwithin Globe 2150; it took place in 2084). Unremarkably the pacifist race, the matriarchal LC come forced to head to Globe sequentially to assure minerals to build their Evacuation Ship (referable the Moon's general want of accessible resources, around realistic too when in the game). A Lunar Corporation is by far a virtually all advanced of the trinity factions, using solar power as well as antigravity vehicles (explained as a result of observing extraterrestrial technologies). Because of this, it don't build trenches or even burrow underground tunnels rather a UCS & ED. Too, instead of constructing buildings prefer a more ii factions, a Lunar Corporation is breathe to transfer the two from either orbit to the field. Inside combat it utilize exotic weapons like electro-cannons & transonic weapons. LC units typically own slightly less armor & firepower than that of a more deuce factions, however come equipped using anti-energy weapon shields that use at times twice the power of the more sides.

The game

Play is very simple however complex: wherewhen that busy people gather resources & build an army when you took the game as formula, you must complete a game by sending plenty resources for the Evacuation Ship inside a instance limit. A terrain starts slay when arctic, however shortly changes to spring then summertime terrain. Before long, the water system evaporates turning Globe into a desert, & per punt's prevent a title Hell can be a better word for a planet - volcanic terraaround & streams, lakes, and wells throughout of lava indicate that a planet is in dire straits, non exclusively yielding the streaming video player different visuals of different terrains, however as well an incentive to complete the game. Late or even unskilled players come greeted by having a losing screen showing a Globe exploding, meaning that the race, & even the mortal race, is extinct. All a same, your family just can't stockpile & build a Evacuation Ship alone - a streaming video player must locate the enemy sequentially to assure recently stockpiles of minerals to haul off.

A game likewise utilizes modular units whereby the streaming video player constructs his or even even her have units from either the templet project in the favorite screen applying his or her chosen race's technology. Too of note is that when there are numerous tanks, planes & ground-effect machine, no foot in a game - too when existence tricky to animate, foot were non involved due to the fact that the game was originally freed for the German market & a heavily censorship of games there, and that a foot may not exist in the other extreme environments of the game anyway.

Globe 2150 is an extremely naturalistic game - ballistic weapons such as machine guns and rocket launchers have limited ammunition & must become resupplied by air for example. Units too benefit own experience when it kill enemies, & so turn into extra mighty inside first battles.

altoGames: Earth 2150
Thumbnailed wallpapers.

Earth 2150 Database
Provides information on all units, weapons, technology trees, and structures.

Earth 2150
The official site from Strategic Simulations. Includes the story line, downloads, and a forum.

Dragon Fly's Earth 2150
Offers maps available for download and links.


Games: Video Games: Computer Platforms: Windows
Games: Video Games: Developers and Publishers: T: TopWare Interactive





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