The burger that's been there for you, through tough times, in celebration, in confidence and shared amongst your friends. It's the best damn burger you've ever had, and veritably defined the burger experience for you. Now imagine that you've decided to go to a different restaurant and you must, as a consequential rule, order a burger that contains the same structural attributes of your definitive burger, but can never stand up to the lofty tier of your expectations.
Legend Studios has created a "surrogate burger" experience of their own with an initial, and very competent, effort called War Times. As a World War II RTS, it fills a rather pointed void in a genre where the explicit movement of real-time weapons and soldiers is largely relegated to fantasy landscapes or legitimate historical conflicts of lesser fame, like StarCraft or No Man's Land, respectively.
You could tick off the games which influenced or take part in War Times' mechanics - it's not even an option to ignore the similarities and direct comparisons to RTS exemplars. Aside from some simplistic elements in the interface, Legend Studios should feel proud of their vision and execution of this first project.
The period, as I've mentioned, is the European theater. Starting in with some of the first aggressive German movements into Eastern Europe, the missions progress through the different stages and years of WWII to whatever end you make as a player.
Amongst these separate factions, unit types are varied as would be expected, and stand on diverse strengths and weaknesses that create a different experience depending on which side is chosen as the player. Germans are generally stronger, tougher henchmen and produce astoundingly robust and destructive tanks.
American troops come as the most specialized, and possess the most explosive air-to-ground attacks in their bomber planes.
Britain players will see much more defensive strength, and the USSR touts a very versatile army that includes, of course, their pounding tide of able tanks.
In a game without the creative license of a fantasy realm, the play styles actually do vary depending on the faction chosen, which is a catalyst for War Times' marked addictive quality. Will you rise to the occasion? The time has come. To battle! Wartime Play Support Commander, a new threat is imminent! The land troops, navy, and air force await their general! World of Warships. Air Hawk 2. Car Eats Car 2 Deluxe. Invention 2. Zombie Shooter. Helicopter Wars. Zombie Shooter 2.
Goodgame Empire. Desert Operations. Mah Jong Quest. Agent Combat. Moreover, there are often more ways to win besides combat. War games are a subgenre of strategy games. These games are almost exclusively turn-based, and feature combat on a map, usually with different types of terrain. There are several other subgenres of strategy games as well, including 4X, Tower Defense, War Simulation, and Artillery games.
Though the specific gameplay elements vary from game to game, most games involve some combination of economic, technological, and military development. Most games also provide several different routes to victory.
The earliest 4X games were turn-based, and many still are, but real-time 4X games are becoming more common. Tower defense games require a player to build towers in order to contain swarms of enemies that follow a pre-determined route. These enemies usually arrive in waves, similar to some arcade shooting games like "Galaxian. Towers can often be upgraded with special abilities as well. Players must place these towers at the proper choke points along the route in order to make sure that no enemies get through.
If a certain number of enemies get through, the player loses the game. War simulation games are usually first person shooter FPS games that try to portray warfare as realistically as possible.
Although these games are played from a first-person perspective, as opposed to a top-down perspective like most strategy games, they feature strong elements of strategy in them, especially in war simulation games where squads must work together to accomplish their goals. Artillery games are a type of turn-based strategy game that features two players, two humans or one computer player and a human, taking turns firing artillery shells at one other.
Players usually encounter terrain and weather obstacles, and must aim their tank or artillery in such a way as to surmount those obstacles. The history of strategy games begins with boardgames like Chess, Go, and Backgammon. Early wargames were originally designed by military personnel so they could reenact historical battles and learn from them.
With the rise of personal computing in the late 70s and early 80's, it was only a matter of time before games like these made a technological transition to computers.
The first computer strategy game, "Computer Bismarck," was a wargame released in by Strategic Simulations, Inc. It was based on the battle where British forces sank the Bismarck, a German battleship.
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