Remember playing this on ps1 when my older brother bought it. Been hooked ever since to rts games. Love that i can still play this now and getting updated still
this is the most balanced rts game available currently, it still gets constant updates, and also has the best tech tree ive ever seen in an rts game. if you think starcraft is good, this is much better.
@@hajinka98_ giant cnc fan friend but this game alone due to its first 3d style graphics and different style of how projectiles connect, not to mention the fact you can design your own units
This game is indeed still one of the best. The balance was already superb in the past. But they kept tweaking and twitching the nobs. I stopped playing when version 2.6 was out. But I heared that 4.0 has been around for a while. Might return at a certain point.
Something to note when playing the campaign: the first mission does not have a timer. It will keep running until you snag the last artifact. You can exploit this by destroying all the scavengers, then just letting the game run for a few hours (or overnight). This will slowly build up a large stockpile of power that will last pretty far into the campaign. Underhanded, but technically not cheating.
Old comment, but its worth noting that in the most recent remaster project version (available on the microsoft store for free) it simulates how much power you would accumulate in missions once you finish with excess time and gives you that much. i.e. if you are making 5 power per second and finish a mission with 60 minutes to go on the timer, it will start you next mission with an extra 18,000 power
Warzone was so ahead of its time. The ability to free build anywhere with trucks especially. Which more or less was not seen again until generals came out, years later. I first completed warzone when I was about 10 or 12. A true master piece, I later went on to play generals a few years later when that came out. Loved the free build in both titles. I really dislike proximity build mechanics in rts games.
7:46. Actually that shows the range of your weapon. That red flame shows your spoting distance. And the blue flame shows the range that your weapon can fire.
The answer to the visual "GLITCH" pressing f12 activates the radius descriptor....showing sensor tower range and weapon range....activate it and trucks shows construction distance....it shows usefully if your defenses like bombards....of the choke point your sensor tower is supposed to cover.... actually covers it so on and so forth. Blue is utility distance and orange is weapon range 😊
I’m also trying to create a custom campaign to add to WZ2100’s list of mods for v. 4.5+. The Resurgence campaign is somewhat a love letter to GLITCH and Liam Vickers’ Murder Drones franchise. In anticipation of a “possible” second season, I’m planning on pitching a story treatment to Liam and GLITCH, in order to secure the talent necessary to voice, and animate the cinematic video sequences needed to tell the story of the Campaign. I’m also in the process of creating a tileset similar to the Rocky Mountains, but more barren to emulate Copper 9’s harsh sub-zero environment! My inkling Commander will also be in the cutscenes, while being the main character of this campaign.
So I stumbled across this video looking for a quite similar game, I remember it having a similar name but with 600 or 6000 in the title. Basically me as a kid looking for free to play games found this game where you indeed pretty much did the same thing you do here, there even were 4 factions differentiated by colors. I particularly remember how you had to set up refineries with little trucks that would go get coal and bring it back. If you advanced quite enough you could build planes and nukes. I can’t remember for the life of me what this game was originally called, thinking of it looks like a free to play parody/imitation of this one, if anyone knows then please do tell.
A simple and humble, yet good review. (the game doesn't have mammoth tanks, but heavy bodies :) ) I still have the original disks. Version 1.00 There are 2 major differences with the free online version. 1. VTOL cheat. Design a VTOL, the put tracks on the tank. You now got a tank with a VTOL weapon. These weapons fire faster and harder. And practically make your units twice to 10 times as strong. Also, it remains funny to see a tank with a bombing bay on it :D. 2. The skirmish only goes till the first 5 bodies, 3 Alpha and 2 Paradigm bodies. You need to finish the campaign if you want the skirmish to be upgraded. I personally never tested this.
did you ever finish a 1.0 campaign yikes that was something else i can tell ya the last 3 mission were near unplayable on hard back in the day utter nonsense what nexus throws at you
@@curtiswags3688 Hahahaha, I actually did. Although, the hardest mission was the one where the lasers kept firing. I made it with 1 research centre remaining and 5k resources in stock. The absorbers mission was easy to cheese. Even for a pipsqueek like me. Simply have 3 layers of units. 1 bug/wheel/flamer. 2 Some cobra/tracks/machine gun for killing absorbed flamers. 3, Anything durable with howitsers, mortars and HVC that aim at the absorbers and other units.
@@X3MgamePlays flammers are so op for nexus useless pretty much for any of the other factions before it i swear you never see a vengence tracks on vengence hovers lol
something that was not mentioned. if you send experienced tank back to factory next tank you will build will get that experience. very useful when you research better tanks.
In the old version... exp of a unit was lost if it was recycled into a non combat unit (exept for commanders that retained 80% of it)... so big micro-management when building an army to protect thoses "bee-hovercraft/cyborg construction trucks" who perprtualy build thoses mortars/howits cannons under enemy fire...
This and conflict zone are top, even if the internet literally has no clue that the second listed game has more than 16 missions, somehow every single site got that wrong
I've been playing an outdated version of this game for a while now, beating the hard campaign two or three times, and only recently got it on Steam for another run. What I didn't expect is that, in the Steam version, the enemy is constantly attacking you in every mission rather than waiting for you to come. In the old versions, there were a few initial attacks with some units going for hit&run tactics, and that was that. Once you dealt with these units, you could just prepare a massive force and roll over every base, they didn't even rebuild their forces. I made it up to the end of Beta campaign where you have to survive until Nexus launches a nuke. I spent the whole Beta campaign not caring about my defenses so it was impossible for me to hold the Collective's forces for long enough, and because of how the campaign works in this game I couldn't do much without starting the whole thing over. I think next time I play this game I'm gonna play on normal difficulty before trying on hard, it was still a lot of fun, and maybe my top 2 RTS of all time (the first being Supreme Commander 1)
Without the countdown timer or at least giving the player an option to turn it off I think this game would have been a lot more popular. I hated the timer. That was why I shelved this game.
Undercutting the difficulty of this game alot is something i noticed. Spawning units to win every mission is kinda cheap to review it. The game isnt for the faint of heart. It will whoop your ass. Gamma 3 will make you rethink your strategy to the point of mindbreak.
"Rising from your bunker 100 years later..." Let me stop you right there... No... they were in the bunker for 15 years... not 100 years... it's in the freaking intro cutscene... world ending event happened in 2085 in the same cutscene... if you got that wrong,.. I'm pretty sure the rest of the video is wrong.
Remember playing this on ps1 when my older brother bought it. Been hooked ever since to rts games. Love that i can still play this now and getting updated still
this is the most balanced rts game available currently, it still gets constant updates, and also has the best tech tree ive ever seen in an rts game. if you think starcraft is good, this is much better.
Agree with the tech tree, the weapons are so futuristic yet grounded to possibility.
C&C generals is the best RTS game
@@hajinka98_ giant cnc fan friend but this game alone due to its first 3d style graphics and different style of how projectiles connect, not to mention the fact you can design your own units
This game is indeed still one of the best. The balance was already superb in the past. But they kept tweaking and twitching the nobs. I stopped playing when version 2.6 was out. But I heared that 4.0 has been around for a while. Might return at a certain point.
The tech tree is huge in this game.
Something to note when playing the campaign: the first mission does not have a timer. It will keep running until you snag the last artifact. You can exploit this by destroying all the scavengers, then just letting the game run for a few hours (or overnight). This will slowly build up a large stockpile of power that will last pretty far into the campaign.
Underhanded, but technically not cheating.
Unless you're on the harder difficulties. Hard has 35, Insane has 25. Not sure about Normal, but easy doesn't.
I used to do that tactic too, it's grate for playing the campaign without the power limit. 😊
Also if you unit ai is good enough you can level up units as well
Old comment, but its worth noting that in the most recent remaster project version (available on the microsoft store for free) it simulates how much power you would accumulate in missions once you finish with excess time and gives you that much. i.e. if you are making 5 power per second and finish a mission with 60 minutes to go on the timer, it will start you next mission with an extra 18,000 power
when i played few years ago (free version) it had timer too if i remember correctly. time to replay...
Warzone was so ahead of its time. The ability to free build anywhere with trucks especially. Which more or less was not seen again until generals came out, years later.
I first completed warzone when I was about 10 or 12. A true master piece, I later went on to play generals a few years later when that came out.
Loved the free build in both titles. I really dislike proximity build mechanics in rts games.
Isn't Total Annihilation allows you to build anywhere on the map?
Great rewiev on a great game, also THE COLLECTIVE RULES!
Quite a fun review :) Btw, the rings of fire? They represent your unit firing range and sight range.
Ahh i thought it was !
Thank you 😊
That exists? I just had to figure that shit out manually
Nice review, i was around 8-10 year old as well when i played this. I have good memories of this
im 9
7:46. Actually that shows the range of your weapon. That red flame shows your spoting distance. And the blue flame shows the range that your weapon can fire.
The answer to the visual "GLITCH" pressing f12 activates the radius descriptor....showing sensor tower range and weapon range....activate it and trucks shows construction distance....it shows usefully if your defenses like bombards....of the choke point your sensor tower is supposed to cover.... actually covers it so on and so forth. Blue is utility distance and orange is weapon range 😊
They released two more custom campaigns, you guys should try them out
I’m also trying to create a custom campaign to add to WZ2100’s list of mods for v. 4.5+. The Resurgence campaign is somewhat a love letter to GLITCH and Liam Vickers’ Murder Drones franchise. In anticipation of a “possible” second season, I’m planning on pitching a story treatment to Liam and GLITCH, in order to secure the talent necessary to voice, and animate the cinematic video sequences needed to tell the story of the Campaign. I’m also in the process of creating a tileset similar to the Rocky Mountains, but more barren to emulate Copper 9’s harsh sub-zero environment! My inkling Commander will also be in the cutscenes, while being the main character of this campaign.
that thing youre talking about looks like it is showing sensor ranges
That’s exactly what it is, nice to see the range of a few but to many and it looks like chaos.
Miss this game:')
Me too, Warzone 2200 should be next, such a cool game !
@@3rio4alk what a game
7:42 - Looks like those "rings of fire" are actually showing you the range of your weapons. Play Supreme Commander for less crazy looking effect.
So I stumbled across this video looking for a quite similar game, I remember it having a similar name but with 600 or 6000 in the title. Basically me as a kid looking for free to play games found this game where you indeed pretty much did the same thing you do here, there even were 4 factions differentiated by colors. I particularly remember how you had to set up refineries with little trucks that would go get coal and bring it back. If you advanced quite enough you could build planes and nukes.
I can’t remember for the life of me what this game was originally called, thinking of it looks like a free to play parody/imitation of this one, if anyone knows then please do tell.
still FREE in 2023 - great game, so much fun
A simple and humble, yet good review. (the game doesn't have mammoth tanks, but heavy bodies :) )
I still have the original disks. Version 1.00
There are 2 major differences with the free online version.
1. VTOL cheat. Design a VTOL, the put tracks on the tank. You now got a tank with a VTOL weapon. These weapons fire faster and harder. And practically make your units twice to 10 times as strong. Also, it remains funny to see a tank with a bombing bay on it :D.
2. The skirmish only goes till the first 5 bodies, 3 Alpha and 2 Paradigm bodies. You need to finish the campaign if you want the skirmish to be upgraded. I personally never tested this.
did you ever finish a 1.0 campaign yikes that was something else i can
tell ya the last 3 mission were near unplayable on hard back in the day utter nonsense what nexus throws at you
@@curtiswags3688 Hahahaha, I actually did. Although, the hardest mission was the one where the lasers kept firing. I made it with 1 research centre remaining and 5k resources in stock.
The absorbers mission was easy to cheese. Even for a pipsqueek like me. Simply have 3 layers of units. 1 bug/wheel/flamer. 2 Some cobra/tracks/machine gun for killing absorbed flamers. 3, Anything durable with howitsers, mortars and HVC that aim at the absorbers and other units.
@@X3MgamePlays flammers are so op for nexus useless pretty much for any of the other factions before it i swear you never see a vengence tracks on vengence hovers lol
If you like this vehicle design concept, check out another classic RTS -- Earth 2150. It's very similar, but have more factions and options.
Man the thumbnail made may day
Great general overview.
lancers and bunker busters mixed in with HMGs and cannons have been my go to mix as of late in this game :D
2:29 gotta love when you’ve completed a goal but the game goes “no” because everyone has to be at an LZ to count
something that was not mentioned. if you send experienced tank back to factory next tank you will build will get that experience. very useful when you research better tanks.
Exept if the next tank is a construction tank or a repair tank... all the exp get lost...
@@sebastienmorin5149 yes if you are so stupid to do that its really your problem
@@sebastienmorin5149 You don't lose the exp, the factory will save it for when the next combat unit gets produced.
In the old version... exp of a unit was lost if it was recycled into a non combat unit (exept for commanders that retained 80% of it)... so big micro-management when building an army to protect thoses "bee-hovercraft/cyborg construction trucks" who perprtualy build thoses mortars/howits cannons under enemy fire...
@@sebastienmorin5149 how old version? i played 5 or so years ago and it was already in it.
Never had that fire glitch on both ps1 and pc, that's wierd. awesome review tho
I won't stop playing this game.
I recenty got hooked on this game for ps1, I play it on Miyoo mini plus. With cheats its really fun. Cant believe i missed out on this game in 99.
MOW BadBoy master of the rush map
Damnnnn, that's hit hard
This and conflict zone are top, even if the internet literally has no clue that the second listed game has more than 16 missions, somehow every single site got that wrong
I've been playing an outdated version of this game for a while now, beating the hard campaign two or three times, and only recently got it on Steam for another run. What I didn't expect is that, in the Steam version, the enemy is constantly attacking you in every mission rather than waiting for you to come. In the old versions, there were a few initial attacks with some units going for hit&run tactics, and that was that. Once you dealt with these units, you could just prepare a massive force and roll over every base, they didn't even rebuild their forces.
I made it up to the end of Beta campaign where you have to survive until Nexus launches a nuke. I spent the whole Beta campaign not caring about my defenses so it was impossible for me to hold the Collective's forces for long enough, and because of how the campaign works in this game I couldn't do much without starting the whole thing over. I think next time I play this game I'm gonna play on normal difficulty before trying on hard, it was still a lot of fun, and maybe my top 2 RTS of all time (the first being Supreme Commander 1)
I’d like to let you know that the steam upload is not officially supported at all, and isn’t capable of being updated apparently
Yeah I found out a bit later and joined their Discord server! Uninstalled the Steam version as soon as I learned about it not being official too
5:18 - and totally not Earth 2140 that came two years before Warzone 2100 ;-)
10/10!!
What’s up with the “no pause”? I pause all the time
Without the countdown timer or at least giving the player an option to turn it off I think this game would have been a lot more popular. I hated the timer. That was why I shelved this game.
Undercutting the difficulty of this game alot is something i noticed. Spawning units to win every mission is kinda cheap to review it. The game isnt for the faint of heart. It will whoop your ass. Gamma 3 will make you rethink your strategy to the point of mindbreak.
lo comprai per mio figlio con la PS One, poi per me su PC con W98 e ancora lo gioco su W10: mitico!
Actually there is pausing, you just have to look in the keybinds for it.
God imagine playing this on a playstation controller..... that would be the most punishing thing ever xD
Actually it really wasn't , the controls were streamlined and it worked great on Playstation controllers!
On playstation, there is a big difference on the limit of number of units possible on the field... and skirmish is not avalable...
I have and still prefer the PS1 version. The 3rd person tank view is also cool.
Oh boy, have fun with conflict zone then
"Rising from your bunker 100 years later..."
Let me stop you right there... No... they were in the bunker for 15 years... not 100 years... it's in the freaking intro cutscene... world ending event happened in 2085 in the same cutscene... if you got that wrong,.. I'm pretty sure the rest of the video is wrong.
He was, in fact, not stopped at all
C&C generals zero hour is better