Armor Command

Armor Command is a real-time strategy game set in the distant future, using a 3D display view. The two races are humans under banner of the United Terran Federation, and a slaver alien race called the Vrass, but nicknamed Slavers. Both are somewhat homogeneous gameplay-wise, their main differences being aesthetic. A close-up view is available that lets the player focus on units, along with a less focused in one, though a top-down, eagle's eye view is present.

Mechanics involve an unseen and unplayable orbiting fleet, which beam units and supplies to the surface using pad buildings -- the town halls of the game. Ore and metal are the two resources of the game, which may be mined using specialized worker units. Ore is used as a general resource and metal is more specialized, used for purposes such as upgrades. Radar towers may be constructed to bypass the fog of war.

The Vrass are a contingent of their species that have entered human space from a wormhole, starting the events of the game in 2910. Though some space-conflict occurs, most of the fighting between the two races occurs on terrestrial settings, caused by the interference of a nebula. Friendly to Terran indigenous alien races are hinted at throughout the game. The game contains two mutually exclusive campaigns, both of which have different results.

The Terran campaign culminates after several interstellar battles, when the aliens are pushed back to the wormhole, and are destroyed. The human forces resolve to study the wormhole and develop technology to defeat the rest of the aliens.

Armor Command received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Themes raised included the lack of innovation and criticism over the control and camera designs. The control and cameras were seen as the primary flaws, overshadowing anything else. However, the game was praised for the fidelity of its 3D graphics, seen as a rarity at the time among the RTS genre.

Alan Dunkin of GameSpot said, "Armor Command in many ways is no different from a generic real-time strategy game: direct troops, destroy the enemy, develop your base of operations, exploit resources, and move on to the next scenario. If you're new to the real-time genre or you're just completely addicted to them, it might be a nice distraction from the standard fare. But veteran real-time strategy players will not find much to impress them." However, he noted that if the control and camera system was improved, then "Armor Command would have been tremendously better", and also praised its graphics.