Scorched Earth

Game: Scorched Earth
Developer: Wendell Hicken
Platform: PC (DOS)
Release Year: 1991
Stephen's Rating: 6/10

Scorched Earth is a shareware DOS artillery game.

Basic Plot

There is no plot other than being inspired by the concept of nuclear war and the Gulf War.

A map heavily degraded by weapon fire.

Gameplay

A traditional turn-based artillery game where players control turrets or tanks which fire weapons to destroy each other. The player had to account for wind and the power and direction of their weapons on order to hit the enemy.

You could play single screen multiplayer as it was turn based.

Gameplay

 

Positives

The multiplayer was a winning feature for me. The simplicity was kind of wonderful.

Negatives

Pretty basic game. Firing wasn't intuitive like it is in a game like Worms.

Memorable Moments

I actually played this in 2002 when I was stuck at university with a very old computer and wanted something new to play multiplayer with. We had a lot of fun with this game considering how old and how simple it was for the time.