Deadlock: Planetary Conquest

The Good
The only thing about this game that I really, really liked was the voice work done for one of the alien races. I forget their name, but they were the mysterious race with the deep, sonorous voice. Whenever something would happen worth noticing, your advisor would pop up and, in this deep, resonant, evil voice say: "There has been...a change." I liked that so much I made a .wav file out of it

The Bad
It wasn't that I disliked the game. It was that the game featured elements of other games that had been done better in those other games. Deadlock felt very much like someone had said "Let's take the elements from the other popular games of the day and try to combine them into a single game." So there are elements of RTS, none of which are as good as the RTS elements of contemporaneous games like Command and Conquer or Warcraft. And there are elements of empire management, none of which are as good as the various Civilization games. Etc. In short, the game tries to be many things at once, and therefore fails to succeed at any of them.

The Bottom Line
I played a few games of it, grew bored, deleted it from the hard drive four years ago, and have never been tempted to reinstall it.