When the first level demands perfection with no advice to get anything more to do, it gets old quick. 30 runs through, and still only the one map to work with, and next to no cash to try and upgrade my way to getting that last star (the only CONCIEVABLE thing that could be holding me back).
First time through, I got wrecked, because I didn't keep things moving on multiple fronts...even though the tutorial seemed to semi-warn of just that. Once you get the hang of managing things, particularly keeping your number of residents up and your food supply near it, it's just a matter of making sure you keep your butt covered while pushing on through. Plan on playing through again with a slight uptick on the difficulty. Very solid game.
Excellent, as all the others were, but it seemed to plateau a little quicker (difficulty-wise) than the others...once you can get heroes (with item help) to a point where their basic unit's attack type (Sword/Ranged/Magic) in the 10-12 range (with item help) and a few points in Tactics/Leadership/Logistics each, you could mow things down pretty quickly--especially toward the end, if you favoured the units of the factions that like you alot. It also would have been nice to have a little more variety on upgrade paths, but, had I played around with a few more factions' units more, I might have found some a little more to my liking.
The first couple sets can be a little difficult, but once you can crank your reproduction off the little bar there...you're unstoppable, especially with Red Blood Cells available. A little easy, but fun.
Neat concept...a little hard to keep with the upgrades and whatnot, though, could use a little more balance in how things are done between upgrading base vs ship.
It would be much better if the top and bottom planes were movement areas themselves, rather than wraparound points, as well as if the controls could have a bit snappier reaction times (to put it in perspective, my stepmother's old prepaid Fido phone from 2001 had better reaction time)...but definitely a grand idea.
Been playing this on another site for a while; excellent game, has all of the elements the original was missing. Now all it needs are badges (I hope you used some of the APIs!)
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Please try to update your flash player! Then clear saves and start new game.