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1998 · Krome Studios Melbourne · Post-apocalyptic · Real-time strategy

KKND2: Krossfire

PlayStation console exclusive

It's 100 years since nuclear warheads totalled the Earth, 40 years since the militant Survivors crawled from their underground bunkers to struggle against the mutated Evolved for control of the surface. With a victory for either side seeming doubtful, many people from both sides fled the conflict 40 years ago and have spent the time regrouping, licking their wounds, and planning for the next assault.

Released: 31 October 1998
Platforms: PlayStation Windows
Genres: Post-apocalyptic Real-time strategy Strategy
Developers: Krome Studios Melbourne
Publishers: —
Series: KKnD
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action Science fiction Warfare 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Country: Australia
Age ratings: ESRB T USK 12 CLASS_IND L
Languages: English, French, German

About

KKnD2: Krossfire is a real-time strategy video game developed by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House in 1998 for Microsoft Windows. It was later released for the PlayStation in Europe in late 1998 to early 1999 as KKnD: Krossfire. A direct sequel to KKnD in the KKnD series, it is set in the year 2179, 100 years after the Nuclear World War. After spending another four decades underground, the Survivors rose up to a new enemy: the Series 9. The Series 9 robots are machines that have advanced from their farming origins (having the original programming damaged by the nuclear radiation) and taken up arms against the humans, Evolved and Survivor, who destroyed their precious crops, their one and only reason for functioning.

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It is set 2179, 100 years after the World Nuclear War. After spending another 4 decades underground, hiding from the first loss against the Evolved, the Survivors rose up to a new enemy: the Series 9. The Series 9 robots are machines that have advanced from their farming origins (having the original programming damaged by the nuclear radiation) and taken up arms against the humans, Evolved and Survivor, who destroyed their precious crops, their one and only reason for functioning.

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Gameplay takes place after a worldwide nuclear war, on three map-types over land and water: a barren desert terrain, forest areas, or urban jungles. All three areas provide artifacts from the nuclear war, namely decrepit buildings and polluted water.

Like other real-time strategy games such as the Command and Conquer or Starcraft franchises, the primary objective of the game is to eradicate all other factions on a particular playing map. This is done usually through resource management—oil reserves acting as a power source—and maintaining a base of operations while trying to destroy everything else. Fortifications and turrets can be used to protect a base, as well as making use of natural features such as cliffs or buildings. Unlike in KKnD, now each faction has buildings that can provide a little more resource units at a constant rate, helping to gather resources, should there be a shortage of oil or if all oil runs out.