aardvark on 26/10/2002 at 20:48

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http://www.funkidsgames.com/games/moonbase_commander_pc/box.gif
Moonbase Commander
PC CDROM $19.99

Moonbase Commander is a strategy game for 1-4 Players ages 8 and up.
(http://www.funkidsgames.com/games/moonbase_commander_pc/)

"MoonBase Commander puts players in charge of their own lunar territory in a quest to build the most powerful empire on the moon. The key to winning is to find, exploit and use valuable energy pools to eliminate rival factions who are also on the same quest. Along the way players must choose the best way to accomplish their goals by using weapons, surveillance or shields to fortify their defenses. MoonBase Commander features multiple and unique opposing factions, bright graphics, a light storyline and various types of terrain that can be easily customized with the terrain editor. Bottom line MoonBase Commander is an addictive, turn-based strategy game with a simpler feel that provides an exciting entrance into a proven genre."

Features:

+ Brain-bending AI will challenge both strategy novices and pros!
+ Solo or team play
+ 3 play modes: single play skirmish, challenge mode or multiplayer mode
+ 4 beautifully rendered factions
+ Easy to use terrain editor
+ Easy to learn, instant fun!

MC has been getting some great reviews:

Frictionless Insight
(http://www.frictionlessinsight.com/PC_Reviews/MBCommander/MBCommander.htm)

TechTV
(http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/reviews/0,10867,2877316,00.html)

GameZone.com
(http://www.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r19857.htm)

GameSpotPC
(http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/reviews/0,10867,2877316,00.html)

Ign.com
(http://pc.ign.com/articles/369/369060p1.html)

Moonbase Commander demo
(http://www.funkidsgames.com/games/moonbase_commander_pc/)

addink on 26/10/2002 at 21:01

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extremely well balanced
a simple but pure joy to play

warning: highly, I mean, HIGHLY addictive


udderdestruction! moo

James Sterrett on 27/10/2002 at 15:05

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Bizarre concept, great game. :)

Shadowcat on 8/3/2005 at 02:08

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Wheee. Picked this up the other day (yes, I'm two and a half years behind the rest of you), and it's good fun. I'm currently enjoying the disdainful manner of the System 7 controller :)

So far I've never managed better than "the lowest possible ranking" (i.e. bronze) for completing a mission, save for the "race" mission between DeWulf and System 7 for a hill-top energy pool, in which I managed silver. I've only completed each mission once, and then moved on to the next, so I've not been trying for better scores yet.

The only thing I can see in the manual regarding these ratings is "Try to complete each one with the utmost efficiency for added bonuses", which I take to mean in the fewest posssible turns? I presume this tends to be more or less a case of learning the map and where the enemy starts from earlier games, and making a bee-line for their central hub...?

Shadowcat on 8/3/2005 at 08:47

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hmm... well I got gold on my first attempt for the final System 7 and the first Team Alpha missions. The second Team Alpha mission (Island Breeze) is just horrible. All that bridge-building! I didn't enjoy playing that one remotely as much as most of the levels, but I finally slogged my way through it with a bronze rating. My one piece of enjoyment on that one was flanking System 7, who had massive defences set up on one side, but was utterly unprotected on the other. The other amusing thing was watching NiceCo self-destruct by inadvertently reclaiming its own central hub! (I'd just missed hitting the hub with a crawler, and it was trying to safely dispose of the crawler, and didn't quite aim well enough :)