

Researching machine guns, wheels, and light chassis would give you the ability to make a skirmish scout. Not only that, you could combine them in any way you see fit, as long as your unit had a chassis, a locomotion part, and a mounted part.

As you played, you’d unlock new chassis, new locomotions, and new mounted objects. This tech could then be applied to the unit’s themselves in the design mode. During missions, units would stumble upon prewar artifacts which could be researched, adding to my tech tree. Secondly, I enjoyed the tech tree and progression. I especially enjoyed giving a unit a command, locking the camera on that unit, and watching it carry out the command from that perspective. As the player, I was given full control over the camera, which was immensely helpful in hectic firefights. For one, it was the first fully three-dimensional RTS that I played. These design choices still make this game stand out fifteen years later. What gives Warzone 2100 that uniqueness is the original design that is integral to this game. That’s not what sets this game apart from other games. There is really nothing groundbreaking as far as storytelling goes. There is a post nuclear war setting, a self-aware robot intelligence that functions as the main antagonist, and other futuristic technology that you uncover and research for your units to use. Warzone 2100 is pretty light in terms of sci-fi storytelling.

In the game you fight off the opposing factions of The Collective and New Paradigm. The faction is called the Project and they seek to rebuild civilization using pre-war technology. The game is a post-apocalyptic, real-time strategy (RTS) game where you take control of a faction of survivors after a nuclear war. It is a PS1/PC game created by Pumpkin Studios and released in 1999. There are quite a bit of overlooked gems.įor the first look back, I chose Warzone 2100. My gaze lands on great sci-fi games from back in the day.

For me, I spend my Fridays looking into the past. Most people normally look forward to the weekend. Waking up on Friday means that the school week or the work week is almost at an end and the weekend looms ahead like a billowy cumulus cloud, eager for some snuggles.
