GROUND CONTROL MAC/WIN

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Summary: Ground Control ROCKS! email me [e-mail]
Review: This is one of the best RTS games I personally have ever played. I signed up for a beta multiplar cd, and guess what, I got it. I've been playing the multiplayer version, for over a month now. I just recieved my pc-gamer and inside was a full campaign for Ground Control. I opened it up and played it. If you have enough monitor to put it up to 1024X860 or whatever, I recommend you do. With that much resolution, the game is so realistic. Sierra did a nice job on the sand, sky, infantry, and even the trees, look real. You can get a wide range of units, ranging from a infantry soldier, to the best tank or even a bomber/fighter. I recently beat the demo, and one mission is excepsionally fun. You get artillery, and the graphics rule on explosions. If you zoom down you can see your guys blasting away. It's an incredible game. There are also special weapons you troops can get, infantry/mortar launchers, tanks/rockets. If you have a strond stomach(kinda) zoom in on the enemy troops, and then attack them with artillery, it's kinda bloody. This game is really good, I would recommend it to all, good singal player, and multiplayer. If I could have I would have given it 100 stars!

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Summary: The new revoulution of rts gaming!
Review: Are u sick of playing your old cheezy graphic rts games? Well welcome to rts heaven! Ground control has stunning 3d graphics and a camera that can rotate around all of your units giving you maximum perspective of the game. Single player has an interesting story line, and the multiplayer is very well balanced. In the game, you may be two races: the Crayven Corperaton, and The Order of the New Dawn. The Crayven guys are a little bit more realistick and the New Dawn is like controlling a bunch of Star Wars units. A LOT of time was put into making this game. I mean A LOT. The only thing its missing is a map editor but that is a VERY small minus. This game is definetly owns a perminant place in everyones hard drive.

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Summary: F- for Amazon service
Review: I waited 8 weeks for amazon to ship this title, the whole time the web site said 2-3 days - it was never in stock at all. Multiple phone calls multiple email and they still have not updated the web page. amazon gets lowest marks possible.

But good game...

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Summary: Focus on tactics, instead of resource management
Review: Ground Control is all about tactics and strategy, realized in a beautiful 3-D landscape. Units increase effectiveness as they gain experience and earn kills. The game appeals to those who enjoy Chess, real-world tactics and military history, and movies such as Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day, etc. It is not a traditional RTS.

Traditional real-time strategy games are all about base building and figuring out how to churn out disposable units faster than your opponent. They appeal to those who enjoy Axis & Allies, Starship Troopers (the movie), fast-paced action, and who don't care about patience / intricate plans.

The best thing about Ground Control is that you can rename and customize your squads. I say squads because unlike traditional RTS games and like real-world militaries, all your units in the game are squads of 3-10 individual soldiers/tanks/planes. In the first mission you get 1 squad of marines, and you can customize them to be Offensive (more firepower), Defensive (more armour), Recon (more speed), or Balanced. If they survive the mission, they may earn a medal of commendation, and will gain experience. The next mission, they'll fight a little harder and live a little longer than an inexperienced squad. Half the fun of the game is grooming units into elite squads, or feeling sorrow when you have to leave a n experienced squad behind to fight a suicide delaying action while the rest of your force escapes.

Customization goes further than experience, names, and general focus. You can also choose to add special equipment or weapons. This lets you tailor your forces to your unique strategic style. For example, you can give one unit of tanks indirect-fire mortars, and your other unit of tanks a loadout of armour piercing cannon shells. You put the mortar unit behind the anti-armour unit, then have some Recon-focused marines scout out the enemy. Shell the enemy with the mortars while retreating the marines, then decimate the enemy with the anti-armour tanks when they get close. Other commanders may wish to load all the tanks with the armour-piercing rounds and simply charge the enemy. Whatever your style, Ground Control delivers.

The fact that your forces are limited makes each of your soldiers that more precious. You have to PLAN your attack, using your squads' special abilities and unique equipment to their best advantage. Use terrain to give a better field of fire, use fast units to lure the enemy into an ambush, conceal your troops in the shadow of a ridge to protect them from return fire. Tactical finesse is needed if you are to avoid friendly fire casualties, efficiently destroy the enemy, and prevent the loss of key units.

Most missions have a time limit, adding even more excitement. All the missions are tied together with a pretty typical plot of Mega Corp vs. Techno-mystics, all fighting over something powerful that niether truly understands. There are a few recurring characters (like in StarCraft), but they pale in comparison to that game's memorable heroes. That's fine. While Ground Control won't win awards for story or writing, it deserves recognition as one of the more innovative, strategicaly satisfying, and FUN games of the year.

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Summary: Ground Control, a game for any 3D RTS lovers!!!
Review: This game is simply awesome. I have played the demo of this game, and I spent about 5 hours straight! What makes this game revolutionary is that it lacks the process of resource gathering. Some players of RTS hate those pain in the neck resource gathering process, and now this 3D RTS has cut off these darn boring processes of building units, gathering resources and find suitable resource gathering site. Also, you can change your view by moving your camera 360 degrees around. This feature astonished me since you can change distance between you, and your units, from the view of up high in the air, to near 1st person shooter perspective of your infantry units. Graphic of this game is pretty darn good, if you have high end PC and even, low end PC. I liked the process of choosing which unit to bring into the battle field with you, because everything depends on what unit you choose before you start a mission, and it greatly affects the gameplay. For example, if the mission is seek and destroy, which means that you have to explore the map and destroy the objectives that are given to you. In this situation, you might want to include artillery units, and some scout units so your artillery units can attack those objectives from a far safely and effectively with scouts revealing your line of sight. I can't explain every good aspects of this awesome game, so if you want to try some good 3D RTS, this game is a must buy!!! It should be on shelves of any store in the US, so go there and buy this game now!!! Just trust me and you will have a great time!!! GOOD HUNTING!

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Summary: Amazaon
Review: I no this isnt the place but i cant help it. I ordered this game 4 weeks ago, at first they said they lost it in mail, and ten their out of stock. I order it agin last week and it still sint here, but the demo rocks!

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Summary: I will never play earth 2150 again!!
Review: If you are like me and you love RTS games but you hate all the building and researching it takes to get decent units then this game is for you. In ground control you are given your units and given a task to complete. NO building, NO researching. Only combat. Of course as you go along you will earn bigger and better units, but the ones you start with are by no means flimsy. and I garauntee that the units you start with will be units you continue to use even at the end of the game. The little marine infantry units are actually WORTH SOMETHING...almost a first for RTS games. The graphics are fantastic (even without an expensive store-bought video card). And you can move the camera from a high altitude view for a better overall look....or you can get the camera literally 4 feet off the ground for "in the thick of it" viewing. If you like real time strategies....GET THIS GAME!!!

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Summary: Underrated, But Awesome
Review: One of the most underrated PC games there is, Ground Control is the fast-paced strategy game that takes out the focus on managing an economy and defending a base and puts emphasis on organized, squad-based warfare. WarCraft III emulates this game, but fails to do so in many respects. GC had WC3's graphics nearly 3 years before it did, boasted a much better camera control system and combat which outweighs anything in any other strategy game I've ever seen. In reality, comparing GC to most other strategy games is to compare apples with oranges, putting GC in a genre of its own. For the gamer who enjoys non-stop, visually impressive strategy with a unique game dynamic of its own, Ground Control is a must-have.

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Summary: Ground Control: Awesome
Review: I loved the demo. I just had to get the real game, so I ordered it off of AMAZON for "a good price". I was amazed. Alright, so it's the end of the third world war and their are two sides, the Crayven corporation and the Religious order of the "new dawn" (sounds like something out od Delta Force Landwarrior) You start by playing the Crayven people. You step into the shoes, or should I say boots of Major Sarah Parker. You get to read a biography about her in the manual. The Crayvens have "Terradynes" (basically a tank with treads) and "Aerodynes" (planes.) The new dawn people have "Hoverdynes" or hover tanks and Aerodynes. The briefings on my part are not so good however. Even if I have a 1.7 gig computer and 256 mb of RAM, the talking doesn't work. For example, I was listening to a briefing and when Parker spoke I heard "At all costs?, At all costs?, At all costs?, the lines seem to repeat themselves! Anyway, that's just a precaution, the rest of the game rocks. There is no resource gathering or building. You command customizable squads and everything is 3-d. You can zoom and rotate around your units. For 9 bucks, it's a great game! Buy it on AMAZON today!

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Summary: Great action and strategy
Review: This game is a great game that does NOT burden the player with the boring and typical resource collecting and technology trees of other games. In each scenario you have a certain number of units at a certain strength; you have some ability to repair damage, but once your men die, they are gone for the scenario, and in campaigns, have to be replaced by less experienced (effective) new units. This game was easy to learn, but hard to get really good at, which is another good point about it.