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56/100
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3.25/5
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61% positive242 reviews
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Windows, Mac
Price
US$3.49

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1997 · Reality Pump Studios · Post-apocalyptic · Real-time strategy

Earth 2140

The year is 2140. After numerous wars and several environmental disasters, only two world powers remain; the United Civilized States (»UCS«), covering the American continent, Western Europe and North Africa, and the Eurasian Dynasty (»ED«) covering the coherent landmasses of Eastern Europe and Asia. The damage caused by the long wars led both world powers to evacuate the population to recently built underground cities.

Released
1997
Platforms
AmigaLinuxMS-DOSWindowsmacOS
Genres
Post-apocalypticReal-time strategyStrategy
Developers
Reality Pump Studios
Publishers
TopWare Interactive
Series
Earth
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Science fiction
Country
Poland
Age ratings
ESRB EUSK 16
Languages
English, German, Italian
Time to beat
7hmain story25hcompletionist

About

Earth 2140 is a 2D real-time strategy computer game created in 1997 by Polish-based Reality Pump Studios and published by TopWare Interactive (later acquired by Zuxxez Entertainment). It has two sequels, Earth 2150 and Earth 2160.

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Gameplay

Earth 2140 requires the player to complete various objectives, mostly destroying all opposing units and structures (or capturing them). Failure of missions happens when all the player's units are wiped out or a vital objective is not met. Structures are built by deploying mobile vehicles on suitable terrain. Mines used to fund the player with money for purchasing can only be built where ore is available.

Materials used to gain funds at 1000 credits a piece are carried from a mine (or material on ground) by a BANTHA truck or Heavy Lifter and placed at the Refinery and converted into credits. Mines eventually finish when all ore is extracted.

Story

Earth 2140 takes place in the year 2140. In the year 2048, a global nuclear holocaust had engulfed Earth and reduced its surface into a nuclear wasteland, forcing most of the world's population into underground cities. Tensions rise between the Earth's two major factions, the Eurasian Dynasty (ED) and the United Civilized States (UCS), as both sides vie for the world's steadily dwindling resources. A UCS raid on an ED base is enough to ignite the rivalry into full-scale war as the ED fails in its bid to control Mexico and the UCS counterattacks Scandinavia, Great Britain, France, and the Iberian Peninsula.

Reception

GameSpot gave the game a 6.3 out of ten. Brendan Caldwell from Rock, Paper, Shotgun called the game an imitator of Command & Conquer.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
MS-DOS1 May 1997Europe · North America 31 October 1997 · Japan 31 December 1997
Windows5 December 1997Japan · North America 31 December 1997 · Europe 31 December 1997 · Worldwide 15 November 2013
Amiga1 January 2001Europe
macOS1 May 2001North America · Europe 31 December 2001
Linux15 March 2014Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Included in
Gold Games 3Earth 2140 Trilogy
Expansions
Earth 2140: Mission Pack 1Earth 2140: Mission Pack 2 - Final Conflict
Followed by
Earth 2150
Remastered as
Earth 2140
Built on it
Earth 2140

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