Ground Control 2

raz0r · June 2004

<a href='http://www.gamershell.com/download_6176.shtml' target='_blank'>Multiplayer</a>

<a href='http://www.gamershell.com/download_6011.shtml' target='_blank'>Single Player</a>

The water effects in this game rock

[EDIT:]Fixed links

AnarkiThreeXSix · June 2004

wowowow must dl .. i <3 rts games so i must play <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

thanks for the screenies , they rock <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

cshank4 · June 2004

This is AWESOME. About A hundred marines storming a bridge, artillery flying overhead and smashing into the turrets... battle chatter, water affects, the mean dropship lady calling us losers....then blowing up from a flak cannon I missed...

This game is SO on my 'TO-BUY-NOW' list.

Dunsby · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (cshank4 @ Jun 12 2004, 07:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> This is AWESOME. About A hundred marines storming a bridge, artillery flying overhead and smashing into the turrets... battle chatter, water affects, the mean dropship lady calling us losers....then blowing up from a flak cannon I missed...

This game is SO on my 'TO-BUY-NOW' list.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
WTH is battle chatter?

TychoCelchuuu · June 2004

Battle chatter is chatter during battle.

Sky · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 12 2004, 04:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Battle chatter is chatter during battle.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
And the award for Most Obvious Statement goes to...

EEK · June 2004

What about an award for the dumbest question of the year? A question like that deserves an answer like that.

Fam · June 2004

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising had the best battle chatter. Your units would insult each other, give thanks if one of the others saved their ****, or **** about people kill stealing. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Its FPS and RTS, and its what, ?5 to buy? Mmm.

Har_Har_the_Pirate · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fam @ Jun 12 2004, 03:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising had the best battle chatter. Your units would insult each other, give thanks if one of the others saved their ****, or **** about people kill stealing. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Its FPS and RTS, and its what, ?5 to buy? Mmm.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
i heard that game sucked, but i never played it so i wont comment to much on it

Dunsby · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (EEK @ Jun 12 2004, 10:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> What about an award for the dumbest question of the year? A question like that deserves an answer like that.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I sort of gathered the answer to it but i wasnt sure if it was the fact you could use microphones.. Or if the men said lots of things when you clicked on them.

Maveric · June 2004

This game isn't the first RTS to use 3D graphics...
*cough*<a href='http://www.strategyplanet.com/warzone2100/' target='_blank'>Warzone 2100</a>*cough*
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Alright, alright, i'll stop my pimping...

//DL's game in shame
Any "downsides" to the demo? Like limited play time, unit limits, pop-ups, or some-such?

Ashaman_Joe · June 2004

Anyone want to get a multiplayer game going? I just beat single player. Awsome game. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />
Edit: I think I'll ask in #naturalselection. Anyone else who wants to should drop by.
Edit 2: It seems I can't actually do multiplayer. Says "Failed to Download Updates"

DY357LX · June 2004

Can you play Skirmish mode in this demo or
against the A.I.? I hate going online with a game
I have little or no experience in.

Jasp · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>QUOTE (Fam @ Jun 12 2004, 03:24 PM)
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising had the best battle chatter. Your units would insult each other, give thanks if one of the others saved their ****, or **** about people kill stealing.

Its FPS and RTS, and its what, £5 to buy? Mmm.

i heard that game sucked, but i never played it so i wont comment to much on it </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Bah cost me a pound from pound shop, id have to say its one of the better pounds ive spent.

The idea is that all war has ended and the world is a nice peaceful place, yet relics from the old wars have gone underground massing armys to fight again.

Now in response to the threat they revive one of the last adaptive crusiers, you must re learn war if you are to suceed.

Thier is a twist later on in the game but im not gonna spoil it.

Excellent game top notch gfx for an older game, very hard to complete (you get alot of gameplay for your £1) with very good chatter as Fam said, units complement each other on kills and also insult each other when they die <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

I also liked warzone 2100 alot, you had zillions of possible combinations of units for all uses, you had timelimits on your missions to force you to act and not sit around massing an army behind alot of turrets.

As for GC1 i found it to be a good game but lacking in the fact you couldnt build anything its the same as Starship Troopers in that respect just alot better.

I might play the demo of GC2 once it comes out on a demo disc since im limited by 56k.

eediot · June 2004

Ground control 2 looks sick.. however it wont run on my computer <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> amd athlon 600mhz, geforce 2 mx 400

ground control 2 looks good, but i really want an infantry game... with limited mortar etc, but military. a mod for that, taking out all the tanks etc and just mucking around with infantry... *drools*

RaVe · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DY357LX @ Jun 12 2004, 07:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Can you play Skirmish mode in this demo or
against the A.I.? I hate going online with a game
I have little or no experience in.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Uhh...no, you only have access to the first 2 tutorials and a campaign in the SP demo.

Dunno what you get in the MP demo though....

Ashaman_Joe · June 2004

Ok. I redownloaded the file off their website. I reinstalled. And it still tells me it 'Failed to Download Update' when I try and connect to multiplayer. Anyone know how to solve this? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

EEK · June 2004

*Sigh* He has a link to the MP demo on like, the first line of his post. That said, you get 2 tutorials, a SP mission, three MP maps, two sides, and several AIs (Which I can't figure out how to set on 'easy' <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> ) in the MP demo he has. Why the hell are you all going to their website?

Ashaman_Joe · June 2004

Because the multiplayer <b>doesn't work.</b> I though it might have been a faulty dowload. If anyone can tell me how to get around the 'Failed to Download Update' when you try and connect to Massgate, I would be greatly indebted. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />

Edit: To help, I'll even attach a picture of the error.

Edit 2: I found my stupid problem. It turns out you need administrator priveliges to download the updtate, but noooooooo, they're not going to <i>tell</i> you that. They're going to keep giving you that stupid little error message. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' />

BigMadSteve · June 2004

The graphics in this game are top notch and it runs extremely well on my computer I'm happy to say for once <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> I played the first GC to death, looks like I'll be doing the same with this one.

Bogglesteinsky · June 2004

The stupid little error message I keep getting is "Failed to create an account with the username" thingy when I tried to create an account (username Bogglesteinsky). The email and password were not the problem, and changing the username to something shorter didn't help. Their website has no sort of trouble shooting whatsoever. Can anybody help?

Scythe · June 2004

All lowercase? Make sure you aren't using any weirdo characters.

--Scythe--

Ratonetwothreetwoone · June 2004

its a fun game but... i think.. its missing something... here let me show you what i mean

Chrono · June 2004

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> the graphical detail of this game is insane i remember the first one was great im downloading now to try this one

Scythe · June 2004

Make sure you check out the artillery. It looks amazing...

--Scythe--

EEK · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Scythe @ Jun 13 2004, 11:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Make sure you check out the artillery. It looks amazing...

--Scythe--  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
<img src='http://uranium235.thezazi.net/GC2/Artillery.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

From that folder you posted <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

DOOManiac · June 2004

This sounds interesting.

/me downloads

EEK · June 2004

BTW don't waste time playing against the AI, they're hard as hell without a difficulty setting. I'm trying to set up a few units to attack and they run in with three little scouts and steal all my victory locations. IMO it's got a terrible mix of fast-paced and slow-paced combat, that probably won't work too well with most people used to RTS games.

Ratonetwothreetwoone · June 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (EEK @ Jun 14 2004, 12:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> BTW don't waste time playing against the AI, they're hard as hell without a difficulty setting. I'm trying to set up a few units to attack and they run in with three little scouts and steal all my victory locations. IMO it's got a terrible mix of fast-paced and slow-paced combat, that probably won't work too well with most people used to RTS games.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
theyre not that hard, you just have to control the choke points of the map and set up defenses at your lzs and vls

EEK · June 2004

That's the problem. Look at the single player maps. Now wipe out all buildings, bunkers, and cover. You now have a multiplayer map. 'Defense' is simply amassing as many troops as you can to stand around and do nothing. In single player I used a team of marines in the trees to ambush vehicles. Not gonna happen in multiplayer.

Ground Control 2

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