To expand further on the brilliance of the worker units, I'll give an example of the typical mobile RTS game. On top of the great base building, troop organization and movement is all done extremely well through a mixture of the mini-map, customizable troop groups, and workers that conveniently go away once they are done with a task. Unlike the others that have tried out the RTS genre, Gameloft has found a good balance between base building and attacking, finally allowing you to build up a base defense and attack troop before you get mobbed by the world of enemies. The controls are basically the same, with you doing all the normal stuff that you would do in an RTS build your base, mine some minerals, build some troops, upgrade your stuff, then kill the enemy. Like Starcraft, you can play as three races (humans, the extremely Zerg-like Myriad, and the stoic Protoss-like robot race called the Wardens) and the humans have a rogue faction that will probably turn out to be the bad guy in the sequel. If you haven't put it together, Starfront is StarCraft. Gameloft is undoubtedly good at making games, but it kills me a little to think that there is very little original thought going on in the company. To their defense, they haven't put out a truly bad game since Real Tennis 2009, and even that may have been fixed through rampant updates (it is on version 1.5.2). Nothing is sacred though to Gameloft, who will take any game, no matter how special, and regurgitate it into their own little morsel of iOS goodness. And you thought *your* Zerg rush was good. Heck, the game is so huge that there are professional sports leagues in Korea dedicated to it, where gamers are measured no in athletic prowess, but by how many "commands per minute" they can slap down. As far as I'm concerned, there hasn't been a single amazing RTS to come out since Starcraft was launched, as it became the bar to which other games were rated. It was Starcraft though that stopped people in their tracks. Warcraft 2 was still going strong through expansion packs and map sets, C&C: Red Alert and Age of Empires 2 were both killer in their own right, and Total Annihilation multiplayer games were totally hogging my 56K bandwidth. If you were to take a time machine and ask the late 90's version of myself what the best gaming genre was, I would've undoubtedly said RTS. SpongeBob Marbles & Slides HD ($4.99 -> $0.99)ĭora the Explorer Coloring Adventures! ($4.99 -> $ 0.99)ĭora’s Christmas Carol Adventure HD ($3.99 -> $0.99)Īmateur Surgeon iPad Edition ($2.99 -> $0.Price: Free to download, $6.99 In-app purchase 2 – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance HD ($6.99 -> $0.99) *Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom – Rainbow Ride ($2.99 -> $0.99) Sacred Odyssey – Rise of Ayden ($6.99 -> $0.99) Photo Reporter for iPad (Photo to PDF) ($1.99 -> $0.99)ĭocAS – Docs organizer, Handwriting, Note Taker… ($4.99 -> $1.99) Games Kung Fu Panda 2 Interactive Cookbook ($2.99 -> $0.99) IPad: The Final Hours of Portal 2 ($1.99 -> $0.99) PopOut! The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin for iPad ($3.99 -> $1.99)ĢDo: Tasks Done in Style ($6.99 -> $4.99)Īudubon Guides – A Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Wildflowers, and Trees ($29.99 -> $19.99) PopOut! The Night Before Christmas ($3.99 -> $1.99) PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit ($3.99 -> $1.99) TomTom Canada & Alaska ($49.99 -> $34.99)ĪutoPlay – Play Continuous YouTube Videos on iOS and TV ($2.99 -> $0.99) Groups: SMS, Mail and Manage Contacts ($4.99 -> $2.99)
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