Displaying information and units from the game, these files are a neat little extra.

If you've got a good mass of troopers, you'll generally be able to wipe out the enemy pretty quickly, as even with as tough as the toy soldiers are, they're just plastic.īeat each mission in the single player mode, and you'll start to earn new intelligence files, which you can access from the main menu. In the case of Westwood, they found that 'balancing high' and giving every trooper a lot of kill potential helped the game, and I think they've discovered the same thing at 3DO. Proper balance between intense warfare and quick combat is critical, as demonstrated by the poorly executed Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, and the excellent Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. The action is pretty quick, a big bonus in my opinion. All part and parcel for a RTS, but I was very happy to see that they put it all into a PS2 title, something I previously thought improbable. Tanks, Half-Tracks, Helicopters, Flamethrowers, Grenadiers, and even Machine gunners will all be yours later on in the game. Barracks, like you may have guessed, let you mint new troopers, with the Garage manufacturing your vehicles. After learning how to create simple things like a Barracks or a Garage, you'll get access to bigger and badder buildings and units later on in the game. Like all RTS games, this centers on base building, resource collection, and unit-to-unit warfare. Play around with the basic controls in the game tutorial, and you'll see that 3DO took the complexity of a RTS and put it into an easily controllable package. Adding and removing units is similarly easy. You can select multiple units at once, and they'll stay grouped as one giant unit, which can be selected later at the press of a button. Holding down the shoulder buttons will let you open and select new construction items, confirming things with the X button. The screen controls are accomplished with the analog sticks, and thankfully, each control is easy to learn and use.

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