Thursday, 19 June 2014

Kaos Joker's Adventure on: Planetary Annihilation

A game of epic proportions were commanders fight for control of  planets in a solar system sized strategy game. This game is currently in "Gamma" stage (basically beta) and just keeps on getting better. 

This game was made by the same people who made Supreme Commander, Supreme Commander: Forge Alliances. The game may as-well be Supreme Commander 3 as it plays just like the other games. 

You start with a commander and must build Metal (Mass in Supreme Commander) extractors and energy plants to form the foundation of your economy. From there you build unit production buildings choosing from Land, Air, Sea or Bot (land units that are robots instead of tanks). The facilities can build basic units and constructor units. These constructors can build advanced factories of the basic one they came from, so a sea constructor can not build an advanced air factory. These advanced factories can build better units and advanced constructors. Unfortunately the is only basic and advanced at the moment, were as the Supreme Commander games had 3 tiers of units and experimental super units. But this is no way worse only having 2 tiers. 


7BE35D4AC5DCFBF48FCE2D33CBAF6010E083DB94 (1768×992)

The main attraction of the game is the planet smashing feature and the separate planets. You can use your advanced constructors to build orbital launchers. From here you can send a orbital constructor and orbital transports into space. 

232A89957EF645028BEFC0F65124C68BB049736A (1768×992)

From here you can construct orbital defenses, factories and satellites. Or you can use the transport to move units to another planet. Once on the other planet you can build and link 2 warp gates and send more units quicker. If you land on a moon you can build Haley engines which fire the moon into the selected planet.

52287CB55EEC18C9540370257AAA97FCB333CC4A (1768×992)

There isn't much variety when it come to army selection. You can only choose what commander you want and a colour for your force, there isn't different factions or races. Also some of the commanders you have to buy which is kind of strange, why not have them all available from the start?

The multi-player can be very fun when played with friends. It is actually easier to play against other players then the AI as they seem to be always on the hardest difficulty. The planet smashing can get annoying if you have built this amazing base and then you loose in one fowl swoop. But it is fun making game mode with your mates like king of the hill or moon wars. 

Thank you for reading and join me next time for another great adventure :)


No comments:

Post a Comment