Touted as a masterpiece by many, the Homeworld games are known for their deeply intrinsic value as some of the best designed real time strategy titles of all time. Packed with the original Homeworld 1 and Homeworld 2 games completely untouched, the Remastered Edition of each game, and the Remastered Steam Multiplayer Beta, the value proposition of this Collection is very appealing.
BOID is a game that reminds me a lot of StarCraft – but not in a good way since it doesn’t live up to that potential influence in a meaningful way. The graphics are decent but the gameplay looks like something you would get out of a Health book. The graphics are also not only if you keep in mind this is an indie RTS game.
Wargame: Red Dragon is developed by Eugen Systems they are no strangers to making tactile RTS games with the inclusion of the Wargame Franchise and Ruse they definitely know what they are doing when it comes to war-games. Wargame: Red Dragon is also published by Focus Home Interactive which has published games such as the recently released Bound by Flame, Farming simulator, and Contrast. The Campaign for Wargame: Red Dragon is quite intense consisting of 5 separate campaigns they are: Buscan Pocket, Bear vs Dragon, Pearl of the Orient, Climb Mount Narodnaia, and Second Korean War. All of the missions take place over in Asia and involve several factions including; Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Soviet Union. All of this takes place during an alternate Cold War ranging from 1979 to 1992, the story is told through clips at the beginning of the each of the campaigns by video’s that have been made for this purpose they do a decent job at setting the stage for the gameplay but not a necessity really, also there are bit of dialog that will be found in each mission from your commanding officers or others on the battlefield.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Epiphany Games about their title Frozen Hearth as well as the universe that surrounds it and through the course of our many interesting and fun discussions many of the details of how the game works and what makes it unique to the RTS genre came to light for me in ways that I thought I’d share with the rest of you RealGamerNewz IndieSpotlight readers. As always, if you have any questions for the developers be sure to leave them in the comments or head to their Steam portal as these folks really are very open to ideas and feedback about everything from balancing issues to totally new feature requests with patches incoming just about every week thus far and more on the way.