The Moon Project

by Ubisoft

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000056O4R
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 14, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,270 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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The Moon Project is a sequel to the award-winning real-time strategy game Earth 2150. It features an enhanced version of Earth 2150's 3-D engine. The engine allows for greater degrees of zoom, real-time lighting, 3-D terrain deformation, fog of war, and particle effects. The entirely new campaign features settings based on locations like San Francisco and Munich, Germany. There are new units, weapons, and technologies, such as submarines, earthquakes generators, and artillery.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! THIS IS THE BEST GAME I'VE EVER SEEN!, May 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Moon Project (CD-ROM)

I have played a lot of RTS games, and I have to say this one is the best by far. In other games, I've always wondered, "Why can't you do this?" Not anymore with The Moon Project. Anything you can imangine doing, you can do. For instance, you can build tunnels, bridges, change terrain elevation with your builder, paint you guys different colors to look like the enemy, and pick enemies up with your transport and drop them from high altitudes. You can modify each chassis to hold weapons to your specifications, so you can fully custimize your units. The possibilities are limitless. If all this game had was the weather station, it would still be worth buying. You can do lightning storms, (which include lots of rain--the graphics are so good the rain looks so real!) metior showers, floods, bilzzards, and large wind storms that go up to 15 miles per second. Also, the lightning is like it is in the real world--that is, it goes for the tallest thing(s). It is quite involved. It can be slightly overwhelming at first trying to figure out how everything works, but that just adds to the fun. Once you have figured out everything, it's even more fun. Each guy has a certain amount of ammo, and they have to re-load every so often, which isn't much of a problem, since you have cheap transports that will automatically re-load your guys for you. Also, the teams are quite diverse. There are three different teams, each with its own unique way of gathering resources. After so much combat, units get expirence, which helps them preform better in battle. Guys can get up to 8 expirence points. There are also banners, which are really cheap, which you can mount on units or buildings, (you can change your building's weapons to anything you can arm your units with) and if units are within a certain radious, they will have +2 to +3 expirence poins, depending on how close they are. So, a unit could really have 11 experience points with a banner near by. This game sounds more complicated than it is. I would highly reccommend for any fan of RTS games to buy this--it will absolutely blow you away.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Best..., January 19, 2003

By 

Thre3d (Victoria, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Moon Project (CD-ROM)

The Moon Project must be one of the best Graphically, Strategically and made RTS games out there. Don't get fooled by the price, being because it didn't have the best publisher it didn't get all that successful, but it does not reflect the game. With 3 factions, all basing on different energy and physical weapons.
I suggest you to do the tutorial first before you get into it for it does have a fairly big learning curve. Once you get used to the interface you'll enjoy it and wont want to stop playing.
The Graphics are Superb, using a 3D revolving camera and a zoom in feature.
I 3D, are in a clan(Online gaming group), FOC.

It includes and economy side to the game but its mainly military. One resource, money, which is collected differently by all three factions (ED, LC, UCS)

Then the military is excellent using a very good engine and how to create units is excellent. firstly u have air, land and sea. You have chassis (a model) of a unit, then you have different weapons you can reseach (which cost credits) and whatever you have researched you can put on your units. So if you like one type of tank and really like the 20mm chain gun u can put them together. It is very extensive being able to reseach better chassis' and better weapons. So slowly u get better and stronger units. Some weapons are too powerful for some chassis' and vice vercer.

Overall its an awesome game having very intense gameplay needing a good couple of hours to understand everything using tunnels, air, sea, bridges, energy weapons, shields and many different game plays.

I reccoment at a minimum a P2 466 with a 32 Meg Riva TNT 2 VGA Card and a good 192 Ram + for good strong gameplay with jogging. Overall an excellent that every RTS fan should own.

-- 3D --

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, August 29, 2004

By 

Jody Fellows (England) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Moon Project (CD-ROM)

Well, Earth 2150 was a great game when it came out, albeit very underrated. I mean the story was very compelling - the news reports that came on the screen that showed the evacuation ship being constructed or battlefield triumphs and defeats really added depth. Plus, as time went on, you saw the Earths' environment slowly deteriorating - creating a sort of empathy in the player, for these were the signs that the Earth was dying.

The Moon Project has indeed added new units and weapons to the original Earth 2150, but not too much (so as to keep the authenticity of it being a sequel - after all, it takes place in the same period as Earth 2150, so too much new stuff would contradict the original game). Unfortunately, the developers were not so careful with the plot - in Earth 2150, it was said that the Lunar Corporation (LC) have to land on Earth to gather resources because the Moon is too barren and the Earth has only enough resources for one side to escape to Mars - 500,000 credits were needed for the LC evacuation ship. However, the Moon environment has incredible wealth of these resources - my final count when I'd finished the LC campaign was about 2,500,000 - 5 evacuation ships.

Aside from that the story goes that the LC have discovered alien weaponry on the Moon that can fire upon any Earth based target from the Lunar surface with absolute impunity - artillery of this nature would give them an awesome edge over the UCS and ED, but neither of them want that to happen. The project to activate the alien technology is simply referred to as 'Sunlight'.

In the LC campaign, you are defending Luna from a UCS invasion (so takes place entirely on the Moon). In the UCS campaign, you are leading the Moon invasion. The ED campaign is basically climbing the career ladder to get promotions and pretty much stays away from the Lunar conflict.

So, all in all, not a bad game but there's not much new here aside from the new units and weapons. The missions are a little boring on occasion, too and there's not a great sense of accomplishment when you finish. Still, it's worth a look for those who enjoyed Earth 2150.