Ground Control Review

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(More customer reviews)Like many of the other previous reviewers, I bought the game because the demo was outstanding. I'm finding in practice that the game really doesn't measure up, however.
To Ground Control's credit, this is probably thebest 3D land-based RTS game to come out yet. However, it still doesn'tmanage to escape from a lot of the shortcomings of its fellow 3DRTS's.
The nature of 3D RTS, at least so far, seems to be that units aremore 'realistically' proportional to the terrain. While that may be nice onpaper, in gameplay what it translates to is that you spend hours movingyour units from one place on the map to the other, because they're so smallin proportion to the terrain. In fighting battles, you're obligated to zoomout to such an extent that each unit is only a blip of a few pixels on yourscreen--not much fun to watch or look at while directing the troops.
Idon't find the elimination of resource management to be a plus for GroundControl. What that ends up meaning is that there is no reinforcementavailable for you to build or buy; you can't simply play and have fun ifyou want to try different things in a mission. You have to carefully andtediously position your units so as to incur as few losses as possible. Addto this the fact that there is NO in-game saving in Ground Control, and youfind yourself playing very carefully and tediously indeed.
Topping thisoff, there just isn't a good story happening here to keep you interested.It's mostly told through the thoughts of the two side commanders ratherthan through good character and dialog. The cutscenes are hands-down theworst I've ever seen--they are videos of the game engine, it looks like,and they're so badly compressed that they look like they're being streamedover the web--blocky, blurry, and awful to watch.
On the positive side,the game does look great, especially when you zoom in close to the unitsfighting. It plays better on lower-end systems than other games of itstype, but you'll still need a blistering machine if you want to see it inits full glory.
Be warned also that it's not entirely stable. A patch wasreleased the day after it hit retail, but not all of the bugs are out ofit. One of the worst is that it will crash on completion of a mission, andyou don't get credited with the mission. I've spent more hours replayingbecause of this than I'd care to admit.
As a former Army officer, I thinkthere are some cool tactical things happening in Ground Control thathaven't been modeled well in other games--friendly fire, fire support,formations--but in the end, when all is said and done, I have to say thatthe game just isn't that much fun to play.
You're getting 90% of theexperience in the demo. If it really floats your boat after seeing it, thenmaybe you should try it. Other than that, buyer beware.

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