They Are Billions

Had to restart the FIRST level of the campaign three times on standard difficulty... after getting killed on the second level 3 times as well I just gave up. I played Starcraft 2 on high diamond level for god's sake. The campaign is just poorly balanced, essentially based on trial & error. You can't save your progress on a campaign level at all, so until you find out what you have to build when and where - the game won't help you in that regard at all - you will usually get roflstomped by the horde. After that you'll have to restart a map from the beginning and... well, that's just not my definition of fun.

First, take into mind, that price-performance ratio i part of my way to rate the games. If i have to pay 70 EUR i expect a way more then paying 25(release-discount). They are billions could be discribed as a rtSTRATEGY game with simulationparts and a very smal RPG-part for the campaign. I wrote the Strategy in capital letters because it's more important then reflexes and being fast. The game offers a very good survival mode. The game offer a lenghty campaign with a mixture of Settlementmission, battles against the Zeds (aka swarm-mission) and Hero mission. Aside from this it should be noted, that you can't save/load freely. The Settlementmissions are good, someone said there all the same, thats not true every map is wellmade loaction with a special setting. Yes you have to do your build up all the time but that is true for at least 75% of the strategy or RTS-games. The Swarm-mission are, while a nice idea, are problematic because you can get stuck i you didn't research the right stuff fast enough and without researchreset it can be a game over. The Heromission are all optional and you clear dangerous ruins with your Hero to aquire Ress and Researchpoints. The Location are wellmade and most have tools you can use to turn the tide of the battle. The Downside(s) of the Heromissions are I.The Hero are just buffed standard troops without a story, abilities ore something to make them shine II.Most Missions let you deal with hordes of standard-Zeds and both Heros are bad at dealing with large groups for different reasons, maybe it loooked good on paper to force the player to play smart and use the enviroment/missions tools but a.) is 75% kiting or hit/run not fun if you do it every time b)without manual save/reload opening the wrong door or going left instead of right around a building can kill you without any chance. Still, the game have a special touch and playing is fun, more fun then many games that cost twice as much, raising my rating from 3 to 4.

campaign is NOW in the game, and makes al lot of fun. over 100 hours played (hard) and 35% of the campaign finished. if you like Anno 1602, Command & Conquer and Tower Defence, this ist your game!

What they don't tell you is this is a rogue like game. There are NO saves except when you log out. That means you can spend hours trying to beat a level only to lose at the end and you have to start all over. The difficulty increases very fast and you can lose very easily. Unless you have a good size army all it take is one building to get infected and it all over. You also can't adjust game speed and it runs a bit fast. This game is not for the casual player. On the second campagn you have do everything almost perfectly to comeplete it. I find the game very unforgiving. The game can be fun but I just don't enjoy spending hours replaying the same level just to try to get everything perfect.

Great learning curve, intuitive controls and idea of RTS vs Zombies? I cannot believe this hadn't been thought of before because it fits perfectly.....almost like some games have "horde mode", love everything from the concept and the execution! Would recommend to anyone that enjoys RTS.