表层指挥

该游戏是融合横版动作射击、策略、沙盒等多种元素的独立游戏。游戏本身十分注重细节，配合独特的2D物理引擎，在视觉效果和可玩性方面都有不错的表现。故事背景设定在未来，地球在战火的蹂躏下满目苍夷，人类离开故乡寻找新的庇护所，他们凭借先进的生物电子技术，将人类大脑移植到机械躯体中，彻底摆脱肉体的禁锢，进一步加快了太空探索的步伐。然而战争从未改变，人类世界的商业巨头纷纷将这种新兴技术应用于军事领域，心灵指挥官（Brain）应运而生，他们能够熟练操控整只克隆人或机械人军团，率领他们在异星沙场上攻城拔寨。

作为心灵指挥官，你首先必须保证自身安全，挖掘当地矿藏以补充军费，在落地后迅速建立临时防线，从轨道空间站获取更多增员部队，最终行动目标便是清剿这片区域的敌方指挥官。原版游戏拥有多种模式，六种各具特色的派系，上百种地面军事单位、轻重型武器、挖掘工具、手雷炸药与运输机以及丰富的堡垒建造素材。玩家不仅要根据情况合理定制增员清单，还要偶尔亲手操控单兵加入作战行动，应对各类突发事件。

得益于优秀的物理引擎，游戏中的一切事物都能够展现出真实的破坏效果，枪械弹道的随机性，爆炸或射击产生的烟雾，堆积在地面的空弹夹、人体残骸与机械碎片，角色不同部位遭受损伤所表现出的不同反应，重力、惯性、溅射效果，皆为游戏细腻设定的体现。游戏还支持四名玩家同屏幕竞技，游戏的AI仍然有待改进，只有玩家与玩家间的对决才能真正体现其韵味。游戏的背景电子音乐风格复古，虽无异常出彩之处，却百听不厌；而游戏中的音效则极具特色，完美地构筑起血腥残酷的沙场。

A project over eleven years in the making, Cortex Command has rich 2D pixel graphics coupled with an extremely detailed physics engine, which allows for highly replayable and emergent real-time action. There is also a turn-based strategic campaign mode which ties the tactical fights together, featuring persistent terrains that will accumulate the battle scars, debris, and bunker ruins through your entire campaign. 

Choose from several unique technology factions, each featuring their own sets of expendable soldier bodies, mechas, weapons, tools, and landing craft. Protect your brain, mine the gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!

Key Features:

• Fully destructible environments - The gold you need to excavate is sprinkled throughout the terrain of each scene. Use special digging tools to blast your way into the dirt and debris. All the pieces of bodies and ships from your struggles will fall to the ground and permanently add to the battlefield. Get more powerful (and expensive) diggers and you can even tunnel into your enemies' bunkers from below!
  
  

• Strategic metagame campaign – The intense, real-time tactical battles are put in a greater strategic context in the Campaign mode, thus giving each battle meaning and consequence. The gold-rich terrains on the planet and the defensive bunkers you build to defend them are persistent from fight to fight. This means there will be layers of debris, bunker ruins, tunnels, and corpses piled up in layers, telling the history of each place throughout each campaign played.
  
  

• In-game buying menu - At any time and place during the game, bring up a powerful menu to order new bodies and equipment, all delivered at the location and by the transport ship of your choosing. Rockets are cheaper but unreliable and harder to land. Drop ships are far more expensive but can quickly deploy entire groups of puppets onto difficult terrain. Ships and equipment returned to the TradeStar are refunded to your account.
  
  

• Build your own bunker - At the start of most missions, you are able to take your time and build your own command bunker from scratch. Easily design twisting tunnels and place doors, traps, and turrets to thwart your enemies' intrusions! Pre-deploy and equip bodies in and around your installation to prepare yourself for your objectives. Don't spend too much though, or you won't have enough funds left when the mission starts!
  
  

• Four-player cooperative and/or versus multiplayer - Gather your friends and plug in those game controllers! Play skirmish or campaign missions with or against up to three of your buddies. 2 vs 2, 1 vs. 3, 4 vs. the CPU - it's up to you! (rhyme intended). Flexible control settings allow you to use the keyboard, keyboard + mouse, or any generic game controller you can find and plug in.
  
  

• Built-in editors and modding - Several in-game editors allow you to easily create your own stuff. The game's engine is built to make it very simple to modify and add your own content. Design your own missions, guys, ships, weapons, tools, bombs, and shields - and easily share them with your friends. Join and download some fantastic mods from the community at the Data Realms Fan Forums.