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Have you spotted an unusually explosive ipad game in your star system lately? One that fuses the explodey fun of real-time strategy and tower defense games with custom unit design and pre-battle orders, but without all the mid-battle panic associated with controlling huge space fleets?
If so, you have probably seen Gratuitous Space Battles on the ipad!
Positech Games super popular (well over 100,000 life-forms have bought a copy so far) indie space-sim/management game is on sale in the app-store for those lucky humans that own an ipad.
If you haven't seen or played the game before, it's best described as a hands-off fleet-battle simulator. Unlike most strategy games, which often descend into arcade style click-fests the moment battle is joined, Gratuitous Space Battles is all about the pre-battle planning. You aren't a spaceship captain, but a grand-admiral, back at HQ designing the ships, assembling the fleets and issuing orders to your starships pre-battle. Once battle is joined, you have no direct control, and can only bite your nails/tentacles whilst watching the battle unfold over your subspace link to the explosion-festooned proceedings.
Because GSB is a game of dragging ships into battle-positions, and a drag-and-drop ship design system, combined with a lot of mid-battle zooming-in to watch your enemies explode, it seems to work pretty well on the touch-screen ipad.
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1 comments:
Extremely, Gratuitous Space Battels game is unique game and enjoys playing. Anyone can impress that type of shooter game.