Warzone 2100 Design Your Own War Machines

Most RTS games hand you a fixed roster. Here you build your own vehicles: pick a body, bolt on the wheels, tracks or hover system, then choose the weapon. A fast, cheap scout. A heavy, expensive slab of armour that shrugs off hits. The trade-offs are yours, and the enemy designs are yours to out-think. It is a simple idea that changes how every battle plays out, because the army on the field is the one you invented.

This is a tactics game more than a pure strategy race. Artillery, radar and counter-battery tech sit at the centre of it: spot the enemy guns with radar, answer with your own, and win the duel before the duel. Battles reward keeping units alive rather than throwing them away. You can order damaged vehicles to retreat to base or repair facilities on their own, so a veteran tank that limps home today comes back upgraded tomorrow, experience intact.

The singleplayer campaign follows The Project, an organised group trying to rebuild civilization from pre-war technology while scavenger bands fight over the ruins. The world was wiped out by nuclear strikes from the NASDA defense system, or so it seems, and the story of what really happened unfolds through in-game cinematic updates and full-motion video. Your bases, forces and research carry forward between missions, so the army you painstakingly built in chapter one is still yours in chapter three.