Ground Control
Ground Control is set in the 25th century. Mankind emerged from the devastation of the Third World War (known in the game as "The Sixteen-minutes War", which almost wiped out the whole of humanity) and managed…
Ground Control is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Massive Entertainment, released 1 June 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Ground Control is
Ground Control is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Massive Entertainment and released in 2000. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ground Control is a real-time tactics video game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Sierra Studios, released for Microsoft Windows in 2000. The game focuses on a conflict between two factions vying for control of a planet and a series of alien artefacts contained on its surface, in which players take the role of an officer for each faction, working to achieve their objectives through using a variety of futuristic style of troops, engaging different tactics that make use of their units, the terrain and careful planning.
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: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Ground Control holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Ground Control launched on 1 June 2000, within three weeks of Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition, Shogun: Total War, Perfect Dark and Grand Prix 3. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition, Shogun: Total War, Perfect Dark, Grand Prix 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ground Control yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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