Anyways, you play from a first-person perspective and you're basically driving a vehicle around a planet. You never fly off the planet (at least not in the beginning); you just move around the terrain. Basically, you go on various missions and try to protect your base. The terrain was pretty interesting, with ridges and some basins and stuff.
First things first, there was a training mission. It involved driving around a course marked with pylons. They were specifically called "pylons." If I remember correctly, the ground was covered in snow, and it was somewhat foggy so that you could only see a certain distance. I think there was a cliff section where you had to jump a little bit, and the whole thing might have been timed. At the end of the training mission, there was some sort of long-jumping maneuver to do.
In the game, you start off at your base, which has a bunch of buildings as well as some worker robots. I remember there being a radar screen where you could see enemy vehicles and your own buildings. You could also do neat things like set up a camera to watch for enemy vehicles. When you look at the buildings, green (?) text appeared giving the name of the building and maybe also info on what commands you could give it, for example, build a robot. You could never really go inside any of the buildings -- they were all open to the air. Sometimes you might gather resources to repair the buildings. And there were more pylons around the place....
The more strategy-type part of the game was probably the whole deal with maintaining your base, building robots, etc. For the worker robots, you'd command them to go out and mine minerals or gather resources. I think you could also build fighting robots.
The action-type part involved the shooting. Your vehicle, as well as the fighters you built (and maybe also turrets), could shoot at the enemy vehicles that showed up to attack your base.
And, for the types of missions you did, the only one I can remember is maybe the first or second mission, where your objective was to make it out to a launching pad or something like that while the enemy vehicles were attacking you. I never even made it there, but that's beside the point.
Thanks ahead for any help. Otherwise I'll end up thinking about the game in class and browsing through endless lists of old games
