Serious Game Classification

Earth Command: The Future of Our World is in Your Hands Visionary Media (U.S.A.), Philips Interactive Media International Ltd. (International), 1993  

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Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

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Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Ecology

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12-16 / 17-25 / 8-11
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:

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Earth Command is a strategic simulation game that focuses on both ecological and social threats to our planet. The player takes on the role of the head of a special United Nations command post in space. You are in full control to allocate budgets and taxes, dispatch emergency assistance, decree emergency laws and other actions of global interest. You must combat both natural as social disasters.

The game is viewed in a top down map of the world. Whenever a situation arises it is accompanied with full motion videos. The game covers 500 possible emergencies in 130 different countries and includes real video footage from among others CNN, Greenpeace and the U.S. State Department. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : CD-i - Macintosh

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