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Elements of Destruction

You are the master of disaster! Use tornadoes, lightning, earthquakes and many other forces of nature to do your bidding. Fired from your job as a top research scientist you have built a machine that allows…

62 18 June 2008

Elements of Destruction is a strategy developed by Frozen Codebase, LLC, released 18 June 2008 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Elements of Destruction is

Elements of Destruction is a strategy game developed by Frozen Codebase, LLC and released in 2008. It was published by THQ. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Vicious Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dr. Edgar Herbert's employer tried to kill him by dropping him into the Atlantic, far from civilization. Washing up on an island, Edgar found an old nuclear testing facility on it and started planning for a new project. Now able to turn himself into energy, upload to a satellite and go anywhere he has one last goal to complete..... His revenge.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Elements of Destruction holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Elements of Destruction launched on 18 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.

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When did Elements of Destruction come out?
Elements of Destruction was released on 18 June 2008 for Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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