Destroying the world to build machines of war? How greedy can this Corp get?
In our world of real time tower defense games it’s refreshing to see the once tall and proud turn based strategy games make an appearance now and then. Greed Corp HD is also a hexagon based game with some steampunk trimmings, making it extra unique on top of the fact that’s it’s a really awesome game. Over the past year Greed Corp has appeared on the PC, 360 and PS3 and has been well received on all three with high praise for the interesting mechanics and rightfully so. Like just about all turn based strategy games the goal is to build up an army to wipe your enemy off the map. The twist in Greed Corp is that the resources you harvest to afford new units comes at the cost of the very land you are playing on, opening up some very different gameplay styles.
Usually you’d start a strategy game off by hunkering down and gathering resources in your corner while you build up an army but in Greed Corp HD, each turn that passes your harvesters will drop themselves and their neighboring squares down one step into oblivion until they falls off of the map. Each hex on the map has a height, so higher squares become more valuable as more can he harvested from them, but also they make better locations to build armories and turrets as it’d take longer for a nearby harvester to lower the tile. This mechanic ends up creating interesting tactics such as saving up your resources so you can buy a single use transport anywhere on the map and then drop a harvester right in the middle of the enemies area, even if the enemy captures the harvester they’ll still loose the tile it was on and perhaps any ones around it also. Even with larger maps, by the time a level is near completion the remaining players will be squabbling over the few precious tiles as land becomes a more valuable commodity than resources.
Of course every level plays out differently and there’s plenty of different strategies to consider before making each move and there can be a lot going on when you have a map with three opponents on. There is a full campaign to play through as well as a open skirmish mode, there isn’t much of a story, but the campaign does place you in some interesting situations to fight your way out of. The AI opponents can provide a significant challenge but nothing quite compares to going up against human players online or locally where you’ll find yourself adapting and learning some new tricks very quickly. Online play is easy to get into and very satisfying, just like a well played game of chess the game can be turned around in an instant and you really have nobody to blame but yourself if you loose in a 1-on-1 match.
With great graphics and music on top of the fantastic gameplay and fully realized online multiplayer it seems daft that Greed Corp HD is available for free in the market. It would be easy to recommend this at $5 or more, so to have this for free with a small advert showing on the screen makes this absolutely impossible not to recommend to Android tablet owners.
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