Kairobotica is very much a "jack of all trades, master of none" kind of game. It's a mish-mash of turn-based combat, city management and even creature collecting that starts on Earth and eventually spans the stars. You'll even help entire species evolve from primitive cave-dwellers to advanced spacefarers. It's big, it's cute and it's fun, but it's not very focused and in the end just doesn't have the chops to provide a serious strategy experience.
Online strategy games seem to be enjoying the same surge of interest that casino titles were savoring just a couple of a months ago, and as was the case then, it sometimes gets hard to tell one apart from the other. You could be forgiven for thinking that Clash of Clans was a modded reskin of the recently released Galaxy Life: Pocket Adventures. While they differ in visual styles, both games center on building up a base in a persistent online environment and then defending it from other players. Feeling feisty? You can attack other players as well. The good news, though, is that there's enough to distinguish Clash of Clans as a game worth playing (despite some missteps).
With Mad Men having shown us how fun (and booze-filled) working at an ad agency can be, it's surprising we haven't seen an influx of games based on the concept. With Campaign the Game, that's a gap Insolita Studios and creative producer Thomas Egas is looking to fill. There isn't any sort of rampant debauchery, and no one is drinking on the job, but it still manages to provide a very quirky adaptation of life in the advertising sector.
Clash of Clans is a free to play city building game created by Supercell. It is your task to guide the development of a viking encampment into a thriving city state, battling goblin hordes and eventually other players as well. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.
With the big issues of the day - jobs, Iran and Chick-fil-A - stirring up partisan passions, it's probably the best time ever to play a computer game about running for president. So kudos go to Stardock for releasing The Political Machine 2012, a game that simulates the messy business of going after the highest office in the U.S.A. and injects it with 100 percent more humor and infinitely more bobbleheads to make it entertainment.
It's safe to say most people are familiar with the tale of Animal Farm, the classic novella from George Orwell that imagines the uprising of four-legged figures against their upright-standing oppressors. The revolution begins to crumble thanks to corrupt leaders and fatally flawed individuals within the group. Had the turtle from Shellrazer been part of that Orwellian tale, there may have been less of an uprising and more of a military coup. The hard shell and harder attitude of the war turtle in Shellrazer makes the pigs of Animal Farm look like Ghandi. But will it be enough to shoot up a solid score or is this outer shell too soft to withstand the barrage of other great iOS titles?
Spy vs Spy is a strategy/action game by Robots and Pencils Inc. where players compete to track down the four items needed to escape the Embassy they're in. You'll engage in melee combat, scour sundry desks and containers, and rig some pretty awesome booby traps in your quest for victory. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.
A Nation of Wind is a remarkable accomplishment. Created as a solo project by indie developer Jameson Wilkins, it combines real-time strategy with "arena shooting" in a game that evokes memories of classic god-games like Populous and Powermonger. But while it shows great potential, and my hope is that one day it evolves into a great game, at this stage in its development it's just not quite ready for prime time.