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The levels in campaign mode have a fair amount of variety, but not all are hits. The games main mode is the ‘Campaign’ mode, which spans 17 levels (divided over the three factions).

You can also set patrols, as well as perimeter defences. When tactics are needed (for example, most of the time) you can separate out groups of units into squads. Directing a unit is as simple as prodding the area of the screen you want said unit it to go to. If you’re feeling particularly suicidal and decide a charge is in order, there is a ’highlight all’ icon which does exactly what it says on the tin. If you need more than one, you can trace a rectangle over the units you want, and they will become active. Prodding individual units or buildings will activate their menu, from which you can choose a number of commands. As you would expect from an iOS game, everything is mapped to the touchscreen and Gameloft have done a remarkable job of keeping things simple. The first place you will want to head when booting up the game is the tutorial, which treads the fine line between giving you all the details, but not enough to explode your brain. These all cost Xenodium, but bring greater rewards – it’s down to you to discover if it is worth it. Key buildings all require a set number of worker units to activate them, and upgrading these buildings uses more worker units still. It’s just as well really, as when you up the difficulty you really will need to have your wits about you. This adds a nice amount of variety and a good sense of progression as you build your team and unlock more powerful units. Just for information, I much preferred playing as The Myriad, purely because I liked their upgraded fighters the most (I’m a sucker for electricity throwing pods of death!).

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For example you can upgrade The Consortium gunners to use bullets that have a greater impact, or armour that can withstand just that little bit more damage.

All factions have their standard buildings, as well as varying special abilities that you must research to gain access to. The Consortium favour vehicles and carry standard weaponry you would expect any Marine Corp to have The Myriad weapons are much more organic, and favour vicious, animalistic attacks whilst The Warden are clearly the tech-heads of the lot, creating robots to go on the attack. It’s like Eastenders with slimy ooze creatures.Īs mentioned above, the game has three factions to choose from, although they all play fairly similarly. It’s not long before The Consortium are locked in battle with the insect-like race known as ‘The Myriad’, and just when things couldn’t get any worse a savant robot race called ‘The Warden’ make their presence known and join the fight. Word spreads though, and soon others became interested in harvesting the Xenodium for their own nefarious ends. Debris surrounding the planet was found to contain crystals of a substance codenamed ‘Xenodium’, a very valuable resource which was then coveted by the human mining conglomerate known as ‘The Consortium’. This RTS takes place on planet Sinistral. It’s fairly easy to spot where the inspiration for their latest title, StarFront: Collision, comes from – but is StarCraft on your iPod such a bad thing? Saying that, there’s an underlying streak of quality that always manages to raise an eyebrow. Gameloft have come in for a bit of a hard time lately, with their various releases all seeming rather similar to other, big budget titles.