The Red Shell reviews -- Military Madness: Nectaris
"Every once in a while, a game comes along that has you up all night, obsessed with "winning one more game," before bedtime. Before you know it, the clock says 3 A.M. and you have work early tomorrow. Military Madness: Nectaris is that game."
The strategy genre on Android is like an iceberg: the part you see is just the tip of a much larger object beneath the surface (and also because of James Cameron’s upcoming Edwardian-era romantic drama set against the backdrop of a tragic maritime disaster somehow caused by Plants vs. Zombies). Above the surface, there are breakout hits like Great Little War Game. There are ports of popular games from other platform, like Anomaly: Warzone Earth and Greed Corp. There are Kairosoft’s management sim games. There’s the never-ending cavalcade of tower defense titles created by randomly selecting two concepts and sticking “vs.” between them.
PopMatters: Military Madness: Nectaris is the latest remake of an old TurboGrafx game that has seen a fair number of iterations over the years. Why do I bring this up? Because if you haven’t played one of those previous versions, this one is not for you. This game does everything that it can to scare away whatever new audience it might have found on XBLA, WiiWare, or PSN.
Mygamer writes: "Military Madness: Nectaris aims to revive its classic predecessor, which was released on the TurboGrafx-16. From my understanding of the game’s original incarnation (which was derived from poring over a few fansites), it seems to do this very well. Military Madness’s concept and gameplay remain generally unchanged from two decades ago. This lack of evolution is bound to be a blessing and a curse—fans of the series will be immediately swimming in nostalgia, and newcomers, such as myself, will be struggling to readjust to strategic gaming conventions that have long been extinct. That’s not to say this struggle isn’t worth going through, but if you’re not a dedicated strategy fan who’s open to something very different from modern strategy games…you’ve been warned."
