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* LowTierLetdown: For a number of people in Earth 2150, the LC is this. Despite being the most technologically advanced in-story, the LC are pretty awful with some very important technologies, most glaringly the repairer. Because they don't have one, the LC cannot upgrade their vehicles nor can they capture enemy units (despite having weapons that can paralyze enemy vehicles). Furthermore, their base artillery is the worst of the 3 factions and their anti-aircraft weapon is just awful. They also don't have an effective bomber with their equivalent being an aircraft armed with sonic cannons that doesn't do enough damage to pose much of a threat to enemies. Finally their superweapon is only effective on certain terrain otherwise it just creates weather effects that can hinder you as well as the enemy, and further even when it can do damage their superweapon doesn't match the firepower of those of the other factions.



* TierInducedScrappy: For a number of people in Earth 2150, the LC is this. Despite being the most technologically advanced in-story, the LC are pretty awful with some very important technologies, most glaringly the repairer. Because they don't have one, the LC cannot upgrade their vehicles nor can they capture enemy units (despite having weapons that can paralyze enemy vehicles). Furthermore, their base artillery is the worst of the 3 factions and their anti-aircraft weapon is just awful. They also don't have an effective bomber with their equivalent being an aircraft armed with sonic cannons that doesn't do enough damage to pose much of a threat to enemies. Finally their superweapon is only effective on certain terrain otherwise it just creates weather effects that can hinder you as well as the enemy, and further even when it can do damage their superweapon doesn't match the firepower of those of the other factions.
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* SequelDifficultySpike: ''Lost Souls'' is outright NintendoHard compared to its predecessors, with nearly every mission pitting the player against extremely fortified AI bases that not only attack continuously and relentlessly, but actually receive endlessly respawning high-end units as free reinforcements every few minutes.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The music has been specially composed for the game, giving each side its own specific type of music. Eurasian Dynasty has pompous, militaristic classic music fitting its blunt, crude aspect; Lunar Corp eerie, spacey sounds akin their space hippie-ness; United Civilised States hard rock fitting their industrialized nation. The Moon Project takes this already awesome music, and adds an overproduced futuristic feel to it. Then there's the three sides' promo clips, where the UCS clip is structured more [[AffectionateParody like a music clip]] (with Nukes) than a propaganda clip.
** The sequel, Earth 2160, comes bundled with a soundtrack CD, and given the nice selection of atmospheric tunes, you can't really blame them.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The music has been specially composed for the game, giving each side its own specific type of music. Eurasian Dynasty has pompous, militaristic classic music fitting its blunt, crude aspect; Lunar Corp eerie, spacey sounds akin their space hippie-ness; United Civilised States hard rock fitting their industrialized nation. The Moon Project takes this already awesome music, and adds an overproduced futuristic feel to it. Then there's the three sides' promo clips, where the UCS clip is structured more [[AffectionateParody like a music clip]] (with Nukes) than a propaganda clip.
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clip. The sequel, Earth 2160, ''Earth 2160'', comes bundled with a soundtrack CD, and given the nice selection of atmospheric tunes, you can't really blame them.

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: No matter which side of which or version of game you play, Earth 2150 ends with Earth being destroyed, and billions perish. At best your action allow several tens of thousand to escape Earth.



* TierInducedScrappy: For a number of people in Earth 2150, the LC is this. Despite being the most technologically advanced in-story, the LC are pretty awful with some very important technologies, most glaringly the repairer. Because they don't have one, the LC cannot upgrade their vehicles nor can they capture enemy units (despite having weapons that can paralyze enemy vehicles). Furthermore, their base artillery is the worst of the 3 factions and their anti-aircraft weapon is just awful. They also don't have an effective bomber with their equivalent being an aircraft armed with sonic cannons that doesn't do enough damage to pose much of a threat to enemies. Finally their superweapon is only effective on certain terrain otherwise it just creates weather effects that can hinder you as well as the enemy, and further even when it can do damage their superweapon doesn't match the firepower of those of the other factions.

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* TierInducedScrappy: For a number of people in Earth 2150, the LC is this. Despite being the most technologically advanced in-story, the LC are pretty awful with some very important technologies, most glaringly the repairer. Because they don't have one, the LC cannot upgrade their vehicles nor can they capture enemy units (despite having weapons that can paralyze enemy vehicles). Furthermore, their base artillery is the worst of the 3 factions and their anti-aircraft weapon is just awful. They also don't have an effective bomber with their equivalent being an aircraft armed with sonic cannons that doesn't do enough damage to pose much of a threat to enemies. Finally their superweapon is only effective on certain terrain otherwise it just creates weather effects that can hinder you as well as the enemy, and further even when it can do damage their superweapon doesn't match the firepower of those of the other factions.factions.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: No matter which side of which or version of game you play, Earth 2150 ends with Earth being destroyed, and billions perish. At best your action allow several tens of thousand to escape Earth.

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* GameBreaker: UCS plasma cannons, hands down. Insane damage, very high rate of fire AND infinite ammo.
** And The Moon Project adds Anti-aircraft plasma cannons making plasma weaponry even more overpowered.
** Until long range artillery level the towers.
** Also, aircraft in 2150's campaign, due to the AI's love of anti-ground only energy weapons.
** The ED's STEALTH vehicle equipped with an ion cannon. With this, you can capture every vehicle on the level. In Moon Project, do this on the level with the Grizzlies and you'll overwhelm anything you face.

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* DemonicSpiders: Until you start fielding shields, any UCS unit with a Heavy Plasma Cannon.
** LC Thunderer bombers with Air Sonic Cannons are a MAJOR pain to deal with until you get shields. Their shots don't do much damage, but they have a very fast rate of fire and a ''massive'' damage radius, allowing just a few of them to wipe out an entire unshielded army in seconds.
* GameBreaker: UCS plasma cannons, hands down. Insane damage, very high rate of fire AND infinite ammo.
** And The Moon Project adds Anti-aircraft plasma cannons making plasma weaponry even more overpowered.
** Until long range artillery level the towers.
** Also, aircraft in 2150's campaign, due to the AI's love of anti-ground only energy weapons.
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The ED's STEALTH vehicle equipped with an ion cannon. With this, this and a repairer-equipped Taiga, you can capture every vehicle ground unit on the level. level with near-impunity. In Moon Project, do this on the level with the Grizzlies and you'll overwhelm anything you face.face.
* GoddamnedBats: Enemy minelayers if you're not playing as LC. Left on their own for long enough, they will proceed to fill the entire map with ''hundreds'' of invisible landmines, of which ONE can kill any unit that isn't late-game. The only way to detect them is to use a minelayer of your own, which in the campaigns you tend not to get until about half a dozen missions after the enemy does.



** ED forcibly turns soldiers into cyborgs to pilot their vehicles.
** The UCS is not better. They use cyberized human brains to pilot their mechs and aircraft.

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** During the timeframe of ''2140'', the ED forcibly turns soldiers into cyborgs to pilot performs UnwillingRoboticization on their vehicles.
own citizenry to reduce their ration requirements by way of turning them into cyborgs. They also practice SocialDarwinism to such an extreme that ''laziness'' merits summary execution, which is their primary beef with the UCS due to the latter's heavy use of automation removing the citizenry's need to perform physical labor.
** The According to Fang, the UCS is not better. They use cyberized human brains to pilot much better, with at least some of their mechs and aircraft.vehicles running on a BrainInAJar WetwareCPU.
** The whole reason for the second half of ''Lost Souls''' story. [[spoiler:Not only did the leadership of all three factions leave behind most of their own population to die on a doomed Earth, they explicitly conspired with each other to actively prevent those left behind from finding another way off the planet in order to avert a GenocideBackfire.]]
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The music has been specially composed for the game, giving each side its own specific type of music. Eurasian Dynasty has pompous, militaristic classic music fitting its blunt, crude aspect; Lunar Corp eerie, spacey sounds akin their space hippie-ness; United Civilised States hard rock fitting their industrialized nation. The Moon Project takes this already awesome music, and adds an overproduced futuristic feel to it. Then there's the three sides' promo clips, where the UCS clip is structured more [[AffectionateParody like a music clip]] (with Nukes) than a propaganda clip.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The music has been specially composed for the game, giving each side its own specific type of music. Eurasian Dynasty has pompous, militaristic classic music fitting its blunt, crude aspect; Lunar Corp eerie, spacey sounds akin their space hippie-ness; United Civilised States hard rock fitting their industrialized nation. The Moon Project takes this already awesome music, and adds an overproduced futuristic feel to it. Then there's the three sides' promo clips, where the UCS clip is structured more [[AffectionateParody like a music clip]] (with Nukes) than a propaganda clip.
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** The ED's STEALTH vehicle equipped with an ion cannon. With this, you can capture every vehicle on the level. In Moon Project, do this on the level with the Grizzlies and you'll overwhelm anything you face.
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* ThatOneLevel: ''All'' of the first five or so ED missions tend to be unreasonably hard by virtue of the enemy sending highly-upgraded units at you just minutes into the missions. The worst is the semi-hidden Alaska mission where the player has to find a Soviet underground base (not very difficult), then has to mine 50,000 credits (doable) while being attacked by three UCS enemies spamming missile bots before the player is even allowed to construct anything (stupid).

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* ThatOneLevel: ''All'' of the first five or so ED missions tend to be unreasonably hard by virtue of the enemy sending highly-upgraded units at you just minutes into the missions. The worst is the semi-hidden Alaska mission where the player has to find a Soviet underground base (not very difficult), then has to mine 50,000 credits (doable) while being attacked by three UCS enemies spamming missile bots before the player is even allowed to construct anything (stupid).(stupid).
* TierInducedScrappy: For a number of people in Earth 2150, the LC is this. Despite being the most technologically advanced in-story, the LC are pretty awful with some very important technologies, most glaringly the repairer. Because they don't have one, the LC cannot upgrade their vehicles nor can they capture enemy units (despite having weapons that can paralyze enemy vehicles). Furthermore, their base artillery is the worst of the 3 factions and their anti-aircraft weapon is just awful. They also don't have an effective bomber with their equivalent being an aircraft armed with sonic cannons that doesn't do enough damage to pose much of a threat to enemies. Finally their superweapon is only effective on certain terrain otherwise it just creates weather effects that can hinder you as well as the enemy, and further even when it can do damage their superweapon doesn't match the firepower of those of the other factions.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: No matter which side of which or version of game you play, Earth 2150 ends with Earth being destroyed, and billions perish. At best your action allow several tens of thousand to escape Earth.
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* LesYay: During one Mission Briefing of the [[FanNickname Neo Campaign]] in the original game (playing LC and deciding to join with the ED) Neo mentions that in the case of Fang's superior not going with his methods, he will release videos of her making out with the girl from the progress department. She is understandably ''very angry'' about that.

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* LesYay: During PlayedForLaughs; during one Mission Briefing of the [[FanNickname Neo Campaign]] in the original game (playing LC and deciding to join with the ED) Neo mentions that in the case of Fang's superior not going with his methods, he will release videos of her making out with the girl from the progress department. She is understandably ''very angry'' about that.
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* LesYay: During one Mission Briefing of the [[FanNickname Neo Campaign]] in the original game (playing LC and deciding to join with the ED) Neo mentions that in the case of Fang's superior not going with his methods, he will release videos of her making out with the girl from the progress department. She is understandably ''very'' angry about that.

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* LesYay: During one Mission Briefing of the [[FanNickname Neo Campaign]] in the original game (playing LC and deciding to join with the ED) Neo mentions that in the case of Fang's superior not going with his methods, he will release videos of her making out with the girl from the progress department. She is understandably ''very'' angry ''very angry'' about that.

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* LesYay: During one Mission Briefing of the [[FanNickname Neo Campaign]] in the original game (playing LC and deciding to join with the ED) Neo mentions that in the case of Fang's superior not going with his methods, he will release videos of her making out with a girl from the info department. She is understandably ''very'' angry about that.

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* LesYay: During one Mission Briefing of the [[FanNickname Neo Campaign]] in the original game (playing LC and deciding to join with the ED) Neo mentions that in the case of Fang's superior not going with his methods, he will release videos of her making out with a the girl from the info progress department. She is understandably ''very'' angry about that.



* SequelDisplacement: Few people have heard of ''Earth 2140'', which started the series, and was a fairly decent game in its own right, if not as spectacular or out of the ordinary as its sequels.

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* SequelDisplacement: Few people have heard of ''Earth 2140'', which started the series, and was a fairly decent game in its own right, if not as spectacular or out of the ordinary as its sequels.sequels.
* ThatOneLevel: ''All'' of the first five or so ED missions tend to be unreasonably hard by virtue of the enemy sending highly-upgraded units at you just minutes into the missions. The worst is the semi-hidden Alaska mission where the player has to find a Soviet underground base (not very difficult), then has to mine 50,000 credits (doable) while being attacked by three UCS enemies spamming missile bots before the player is even allowed to construct anything (stupid).
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** And The Moon Project adds Anti-aircraft plasma cannons making plasma weaponry even more overpowered.

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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: ED forcibly turns soldiers into cyborgs to pilot their vehicles.
** The UCS is not better. They use cyberized human brains to pilot their mechs and aircraft.


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** ED forcibly turns soldiers into cyborgs to pilot their vehicles.
** The UCS is not better. They use cyberized human brains to pilot their mechs and aircraft.
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* LesYay: During one Mission Briefing of the [[FanNickname Neo Campaign]] in the original game (playing LC and deciding to join with the ED) Neo mentions that in the case of Fang's superior not going with his methods, he will release videos of her making out with a girl from the info department. She is understandably ''very'' angry about that.

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* NightmareFuel: ED forcibly turns soldiers into cyborgs to pilot their vehicles.

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** Also, aircraft in 2150's campaign, due to the AI's love of anti-ground only energy weapons.
* NightmareFuel: HighOctaneNightmareFuel: ED forcibly turns soldiers into cyborgs to pilot their vehicles.

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