Game: Evolution: Battle for Utopia

In my time spent sampling the many, many freemium flavors on the App Store I feel like I've gotten familiar with just about everything that's out there. And yet here I find myself somewhat smitten with Evolution: Battle for Utopia - a game that doesn't so much reinvent the wheel as it tries to be a whole bunch of different wheels all at once. The weird thing is it actually kind of works.While on a mission to colonize the planet Utopia, the Commander and his crew are shot down while landing and their escape pods scatter them across the land. A land filled with all sorts of very large and aggressive animals, nomadic scavengers, and plenty of other nasty hazards. The Commander will have to fight his way through hordes of enemies in order to reunite his crew, begin terraforming the planet, and start restoring order. And that's all within the first thirty minutes or so.