Earth 2160

Earth 2160 tries to be a large-scale real-time strategy game with base building, resource management, and the sort of unit control that demands constant attention. By our assessment, its appeal lies in the scale: it wants you juggling economy, production, and battlefield orders at once, which gives it the busy feel RTS fans expect. The trade-off is that this style can also become cluttered and unforgiving if the interface or mission pacing gets in the way. In practice it is one of those RTS games where the screen fills with systems faster than a player can calmly sort them out. It sits in the later, more complex end of the genre rather than in the cleanest or most accessible corner. Earth 2160 is for players who want a hefty strategy layer and can tolerate micromanagement in the middle of a fight.