Machines | 
 enlarge | From: Acclaim
Category: Video Games
List Price: $27.99
Buy New: $25.59
You Save: $2.40 (9%)
New (4) Used (7) from $9.01
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 14994
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 95
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8 x 2
Model: 4150
UPC: 021481941507
EAN: 0021481941507
ASIN: B00002S6GV
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED RETAIL BOX. **FULL SIZE BOX WITH MANUAL, NOT JUST A JEWEL CASE!!** FAST, DAILY SHIPPING BY AMAZON PRO SELLER.
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Amazon.com Product Description
Machines is a real-time strategy game, where you control a race of silicon-based life forms on a mission to seed and dominate new worlds. The game lets you command your forces from both an isometric third-person perspective and a free-roaming, ground-level view, but it will also let you jump into any of your units to steer it, aim it, and fire it. This feature will let you guide vital units deep into enemy bases--dodging defensive fire--and actually enter enemy facilities to steal or sabotage technology. All of this will be delivered in 3-D, with hardware acceleration required for the game's 3-D terrain, the fully polygonal units, and the dynamic lighting and environment effects. Machines offers everything you've been waiting for in a 3-D RTS game.
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best game March 18, 2008
i rated this product a 5 is because i have had it ever since it came out. no i am plaing it on the windows xp and i love it even better. i loved to play it some much i had to get a new set of cds
Nice game! December 19, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wrote a FAQ/Walkthrough on GameFAQs for this game, and I have to say, it is one of the best I have ever played. I am playing it on XP, because I have a patch. If anyone needs it, contact me at Aquarillis@gmail.com.
Be sure to check out my FAQ/walkthrough at gamefaqs.com! I can answer any questions if you post on the message boards or E-mail me!
Don't listen to that Gamespot review March 17, 2004
When this game came out, slower PCs would indeed cause delayed pathfinding. On a modern PC it runs very quickly indeed. Also, that reviewer doesn't know his terminology. While some of the STRATEGIC intelligence is a little unimpressive, much of the UNIT intelligence is excellent. Units run to help each other out, non-combat units retreat from danger toward areas of relative safety etc. And unlike most RTSs of the period, you actually have to come up with decent tactical dispersals to fight the enemy well; dumb tank rushes won't necessarily achieve your goal. And lastly, the first person perspective is VERY useful if used judiciously. You just have to use it well; set a bunch of machines to follow a certain unit, then hop into that unit, and drive it around, with a group of AI-controlled minders in tow. This isn't a perfect game, but it's a very fun one.
 Doesn't work on Xp April 18, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've played this game on Windows 98 and it was very fun. But I upgraded to Windows Xp and I can't play it at all. Acclaim is too lazy to make a Windows Xp patch. I gave it a four because when i had Win 98 it was so cool. Acclaim must make a patch!
AWESOME June 4, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is the bomb! You get to sabotage enemy researchers and bases. You can play a battle, special, or full leanth game! When you choose battle, a group of machines are already waiting for your commands to destroy the enemy race(s). If you choose a full leanth (normal) game you start out with a few machines, and you start building defences, buildings, defenders, constructors, spys (they steal enemy research and lay mines), locators (to find mineral deposits), and other cool stuff! If you choose special, you get a huge battle!
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