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Rim: Battle Planets

A human space carrier reaches the "Outer Rim" to explore new worlds, obtain powerful technology and find tracks of an ancient alien race... RIM is a 3D turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle…

30 June 2001

Rim: Battle Planets is a strategy developed by TriNodE Entertainment Systems, released 30 June 2001 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Rim: Battle Planets is

Rim: Battle Planets is a strategy game developed by TriNodE Entertainment Systems and released in 2001. It was published by 1C Company. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A human space carrier reaches the "Outer Rim" to explore new worlds, obtain powerful technology and find tracks of an ancient alien race... RIM is a 3D turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle. It offers a simple and intuitive interface, six different races (humans, aliens, robots) and all in all 70 units with different weapons, special abilities and individual damage systems.
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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.

What it launched against

Rim: Battle Planets launched on 30 June 2001, within three weeks of Final Fantasy X, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and NBA Street.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy X, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, NBA Street.

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When did Rim: Battle Planets come out?
Rim: Battle Planets was released on 30 June 2001 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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