Earth 2160 (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Earth 2160

Only a few thousand humans managed to escape from the Earth before its collapse in 2150 A.D. They spent the next few years on the terra forming of the red planet, developing new technologies and building up…

78 2 August 2005 from $1.24

What Earth 2160 is

Earth 2160 is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Reality Pump and released in 2005. It was published by Deep Silver. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Earth-4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Only a few thousand humans managed to escape from the Earth before its collapse in 2150 A.D. They spent the next few years on the terra forming of the red planet, developing new technologies and building up new civilisations. Somehow each of the three fractions "Eurasian Dynasty", "United Civilised States" and "Lunar Corporation" did this independently and separately from each other - but in the year 2160 something strange happens in this new world. Will the ED, UCS and LC join forces or continue their old war against each other? Besides the usual venues in the solar system, there are some strange looking locations: planets with moving and reflecting liquid surfaces. And beside the standard…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Earth 2160 holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it costs, and where

The cheapest verified price right now is $1.24 at GameBillet, 75% below its usual price.

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What it launched against

Earth 2160 launched on 2 August 2005, within three weeks of Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.

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