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Posted on: October 27, 2022
mikemurphymobile
Games: Reviews: 5
Great simple RTS game
This is a quick nostalgia hit for anyone looking for a C&C-like experience, albeit simpler. I'm impressed with the number of missions (25) and the three levels of objectives for each are a lot of fun. For an indie studio and for the price paid, it's a very solid game. I went on to buy the DLC campaign. Great game if you want such an experience.
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Posted on: April 23, 2016
Matruchus
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 13
A return to the roots of the RTS genre
8-bit Armies is a modern, but very much simplified RTS game which returns us to the roots of the RTS genre. That is base building, expansion and tons of armies. But the game is a lot more fast paced then older games from the C&C genre. But that works quite nicely with the game design. The campaign consists of 25 simple skirmish like missions where you have to complete 3 different objectives depending on the level of gameplay difficulty. That gives you rewards and unit/structure unlocks. If you can not complete a mission you can continue in to next mission and return later to it to unlock more rewards/unlockable units/buildings. Every mission can be played at least twice depending on how good you are at completing objectives. Turtling in the game is possible but limited by the fast playstyle. The AI is quite competent at gameplay and can vanguish you if you do not play proactively. Basically for this game the old military maxim, <Offense is best defense>, is valid. Multiplayer has been patched and the lobby sync issues are mostly gone. Average multiplayer game duration is cca. 10-20 minutes. In multiplayer the game design issues become apparent. Its very easy to spam higher tier units like tanks and helicopters since their procurement price is very low. The game enables you to build up your army fast since it has a peculiar building system where every production building of the same type (motor pool/barracks/nuclear silo/air control) increases the building speed of units produced in them. At some point if you have enough buildings you can build units instantaniously. Also the game has no unit cap so your bound only by your income. Franck Klepacki's C&C like music complements the gameplay nicely and together with the modern Minecraft/Lego look the game is quite interesting. So to summarize: Fast paced, minimalized to the rts basics, graphically interesting lego like C&C game. You will either like it or hate it to death.
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Posted on: October 30, 2018
phodopus
Verified ownerGames: 273 Reviews: 26
You found me!
This is a modern game in the form of a classic RTS. There's no ultra configurability (like in Earth 2150 or Warzone 2100), no real plot, no story-telling, no tactical "precision strike" missions, or whatever. But what you /do/ get is buckets of fun blowing things up. There is the occasional annoyance - the units require quite a bit of micromanagement, there's no real warning that units or buildings are under attack, and the isometric perspective hides some smaller units. Playing through on the 'easy' mode will mean you can win by flooding the enemy with lots of units. Do that on 'hard' mode, and you'll lose - it takes a little more strategy (but not too much). Definitely worth getting, especially on sale.
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Posted on: November 25, 2022
trusteft
Games: 1963 Reviews: 121
Disappointed
I started playing the game for the first time few days ago as I decided to play through the campaign(s) for my twitch stream (same name). in the first session, just under 5 hours, I reached about the middle of the single player campaign. About 13 or so missions. My experience with the game was mostly positive up to that point. The game though didn't have an art style I liked, was good looking enough and had overall good presentation. Up to that point there were two things only, that I didn't like. The first was the complete lack of a pause function out of pressing Esc to check the menus. Not just no pause to give orders which would probably help a lot with this game, but no pause in general where you can at least check the map or something. The second thing was the complete lack of cutscenes. I realize this isn't the type of game to have the budget of previous Westwood games, but it still feels like they are missing to me. So, some negative things, but overall a good semi-classic style RTS. Then the BS started. The game starting every mission with you having close to zero base buildings and the enemy having several ready to go bases and armies, with super weapons ready to go in a couple of minutes. Yes a couple. I played 2-3 more missions like this till I just couldn't take it. In my second stream night of this game after less than 2 hours I just gave up in anger. The amount of BS was too much. I am not new in RTS, I played them since ever and even played 100s of hours multiplayer Generals/Zero Hour (by Westwood). The single player campaign sucks. The missions are basically multiplayer skirmishes, greatly outnumbered and out developed where you get rushed with several armies in 3-4 minutes. It just isn't any fun for me. I give it 3 stars out of 5 and I think I am very kind in doing so. I can tolerate lack of features and polish, but this BS campaign is just too much for me.
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Posted on: February 1, 2023
lexluthermiester
Verified ownerGames: 436 Reviews: 31
Great RTS that will take you back!
This game is very interesting! It's like a cross between 1980's 8bit games and 1990's 32bit RTS classics with a Command And Conquer vibe! It's very well done, plays smooth and easy and has a pace. Very solid gameplay mechanics. Very much worth the price of admission! Buy with confidence!
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