They Are Billions

I think the developers dropped the ball big time, the campaign missions are very bland, there are no interesting characters or set pieces. The hero missions are a bore, you walk your hero around a large complex and slowly shot things. where's the interesting dialog or interactions? The hero is underutilised the points you put into him are simple things like higher attack or health, why can't you give him abilities that help your army or make him semi powerful by himself to encourage reply. He doesn't even join your army. The swarm missions are dull, we could of been given different objectives with a small force etc. You just spam units no strategy required. Games like Starcraft 2, warcraft, spellforce, command & conquer deliver a much more immersive story which this game sadly lacks. To sum up the campaign disappoints in every way possible, it's only worth buying for the survival mode.

Nice rogue/rts game. But here its problems: 1) No manual save. The game actually expects you to play every level PERFECTLY from beginning to end. 2) If you spend your science points incorrectly (and you will !) in the tech tree you're pretty much SCREWED ! All future levels can't be completed and you will have to reset your ENTIRE CAMPAIGN !!! 3) The "Soldier" is the only military unit that is worth something in battle but it takes too long in the research tree to unlock it. You will have to do your way through the beginning of a level with those lousy rangers (a weak archer-girl with little hit points). 4) In the end-game you will probably have your base fortified with walls, towers full of snipers and automated defence systems, at that point you will probably want to dismiss that squad of 50 soldiers BUT, you will have to do it ONE BY ONE !!!, so tedious, such boring, much dull ! 5) Mutants and Titans (the coolest military units you can command) are WAY TO FAR both in the tech tree and the research tree. So, you will only be able to use them on the last levels of the campaign and you will only want to train them if you research them before walling and towering your base (bad game-timing design). 6) If one of your tents gets infected by a zombie attack it's pretty much game over ! Infection spreads WAY TOO FAST in this game. Your entire base is to vulnerable. 7) THOSE THEM HARPIES!!!!!. Harpies are zombie-girl monsters that are lightning fast with long and sharp finger nails that not only will slice your soldiers in half in a second but also climb your walls, ignore your defence turrets and infect your houses like the plague. A COMPLETELY UNBALANCE enemy if you ask me. 8) Building placement is awkward and non-intuitive. The game automatically places "invisible paths" between buildings that don't let you build your base at your leisure. You can't also place several production/extraction buildings in the same patch of resources tightly. ...etc, etc...

I dont know why the last user slammed this game. This is a polished RTS with loads of replay value. Yes the campaign is not as good as Survivor mode, but the devs are polishing it, and have a strong track record for refining their games. I also own the game on Steam, and dozens of other RTS games. From Warcraft 3 to Paraworld to BFME 1 and 2, I love and own them all. This is an awesome game, and well worth your look and money, especially at the 20% discount.

I was the fool for buying this before looking at the review mentioned earlier from https://youtu.be/zWwGukmPYGw . I regret playing it because now I cant get a refund. One star for having the mechanics of an RTS + the graphics are ok. After looking at gameplay videos of this I realised what it is all about. Once you completed the first campaign mission you can uninstall it because you won't really experience anything new. You just do the EXACT SAME THING over and over but with more powerful units. Very boring and repetitive. Play OpenRA instead.

Has had a gamebreaking bug for years the dev seems to have no interest in fixing. For some users, after the first fail in the campaign all research and research points will be lost and it will repeatedly be lost on every single subsequent mission completion or fail. Video of the bug: https://youtu.be/TCmJcwWVAHg happens around 2:35:10, has happened every single time I've tried to play the game and the only fix suggested by the dev (completely uninstalling and wiping all related files) doesn't work.