"A catastrophe is about to strike Earth. Population expansion, environmental devastation and plummeting food production are rapidly threatening global civilisation and the survival of life itself. Only the U.N. Agency ECOM (Environmental Command) can prevent disaster. That’s why the world look to YOU."
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| a GamePro Magazine snippit on the Phillips CDi game Earth Command, by CD-i member CDi_Arcade |
Earth Command is a CD-i strategy game made by Visionary Media in 1993 together with Philips Media for the CD-i system. It does not need a DVC but still features some full-motion-video.
CD-i member Omegalfa describes it as following: "It's a Geopolitical game were you have to get Earth out of a catastrophic economic & polution crisis! It's purely strategic. No "action", just define laws in each continent and countries. You are the commander of the UN, and the last chance of the planet Earth. Define taxes, laws, recycle, founds to help from cataclysm, embargo for wars, etc..."
It is one of the few titles that run in MESS CD-i player but hangs in CD-i Emulator 0.53 beta 5. I'm sure this will be solved in the future.
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.
[Thanks, CDi_Arcade, Omegalfa, Moby, Kris]