Harvest: Massive Encounter



Harvest: Massive Encounter is an award-winning real-time strategy game for Mac OS X and Windows with battles of epic proportions and a unique style of resource management and exploration. In this 2D fantasy you take on the role as the base commander of a space colony far, far away, and must use five building types in a creative way to efficiently expand and defend it.

Gameplay
The fundamental gameplay action of Harvest: Massive Encounter is to place buildings that cost credits and energy. Credits are gained by harvesting minerals from mineral fields, which is done by mineral harvesters, and energy is produced by power plants. However, the game’s antagonists, some peaceful aliens who are getting very annoyed by the humans’ constant mining operations on their planet, are armed with ten distinct units, each that require different priorities and counter-measures. So, defences are necessary. Place Laser Towers, Missile Turrets and Energy Link that power up with energy to defend your base.

The game offers a vast array of possible strategies with these simple rules, and will compel the gamer to try new and better base designs every time. Also, the game is unique and interesting in the way energy moves from the power plants to other locations by jumping between energy links that you place, and the player can improve the energy network by setting waypoints.

The game itself has three distinct and colourful planets, each with five game modes. Each planet have different terrain, units and countermeasures. Each mode has different objectives and difficulty. Gamers can also compete on the extensive online high-score lists, form player groups that battle against other groups, or simply try to beat their own record on each of the game’s planets. With two scores to beat, three planets to explore and four high-score enabled game modes, they all add up to an addicting and excellent game with infinite replay ability.