![]() ![]() The obvious initial choice may seem clear then, maintain control of a small area, build cannons (the game’s only ranged weapon) to defend and carefully place harvesters to take out and harvest areas to expand your area. Still though, there’s an extremely satisfying feeling of reward when you are successful. This can be used to your advantage as well though, as if you place a harvester carefully, you can take out its surrounding tiles as well, sending an opponent’s resources and troops to an infinite grave. The question then becomes how important is this one piece of land to your overall plan? Do you sacrifice it and purposely send it crashing down in order to take out a number of enemies, or do you play it safe and hope to mine its resources? The gamble is a heavy one, and a great source of excitement.Įven after you win a battle and take control of a series of tiled land, you’re going to have to be careful, placing harvesters in areas to search for gold and resources will further weaken an area, so it’s extremely hard at some parts of the game to get resources in heavy traversed areas. The floating tiles that represent the only fertile ground left in the world are very fragile and too much action on one can send it tumbling into the abyss below. If you approach Greed Corp like any other RTS and throw your entire army at your enemy you’re going to fail miserably. What results is a series of battles that take place above a barren abyss for the world’s few natural resources. The only problem, everyone else does too. In Greed Corp, you take control of a ruler in an almost apocalyptic world, there are little precious resources left and you want them. It may seem simple, but it adds an amazing amount of depth to the genre that you didn’t even know was missing. How awesome was it playing as one of the infected in Left 4 Dead for the first time? What about the games that have included first person racing? Valcon Game’s recent strategy title Greed Corp does what these games did for their respective genres, but for Real Time Strategy games, making it one of my favorite and most unexpected gaming experiences of the year.įrom the outset, Greed Corp plays like any real time strategy game you’ve played in recent years – you’re going to plan attacks, move in on enemy territory and harvest for resources, but here’s the twist: you’ll be playing on an ever changing battlefield of falling and rising tiles. When you think about it, it’s amazing how a single gameplay tweak can change how a well-established genre feels and plays.
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