What did that flashing symbol on my building mean? Why wasn’t anything happening? Finally, I’d discovered I was out of GOOP, and had lost the means to mine/harvest more (all my mules were dead), but the game continued to drag on – rather like the Windows Solitaire you aren’t told when you’ve already lost.Ĭontrol of your team members and the creatures is often frustrating as well. During play, it was often hard to discern mission goals or how to accomplish them. While this is a fresh way of approaching the real-time strategy game, the actual implementation is vague. Players used to the machine-like responses and characteristics of C&C or Warcraft may be thrown by the definite biological nature of these creatures, who need to mate and eat.

You’ll eventually encounter four basic creature types: mules, crabs, birds, and dinos, and with the right technology, you’ll be able to combine them into new creatures, like crabomules. Teams of experts â€“ geneticists, engineers, botanists, and rangers (for creature husbandry) â€“ are landed on each planet and given a goal this goal may be to build up certain creature populations, collect a certain amount of GOOP (carbon-based substance you mine or get from harvesting plants, it’s used for buildings and to “grow” creatures), etc.

The gameplay in GeneWars might be best described as SimLife meets Command & Conquer.

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