Gameloft is a mobile publisher with a reputation for releasing titles whose settings and designs can sometimes be, let's say, unoriginal. The company's latest reveal, however, may be the most unoriginal of them all.
This is StarFront, an upcoming real-time strategy game for the iPad and iPhone. You will note that it features armoured human forces with large shoulder-pads fighting against an evil bug-like species, with a highly-advanced alien race shooting at both of them somewhere in between.
From the visual extravaganzas that make my PC’s graphics card keel over wheezing for air to games that are mostly played via spreadsheets, from games with simple mechanics involving no more information than what is immediately available to those with long lists of arcane stats spread across myriad menus and submenus and sub-submenus, from the simplest tower defense titles to ferociously complex and intricate games that threaten to make the uninitiated user’s head explode in a Scanners-esque fountain of blood and offal, strategy games come in countless forms. This list is intended to focus on games that lean towards the latter end of at least one of those spectra – the complex, the detailed, the rewarding but plain-looking. Some still have more widespread mass appeal, some don’t, but if you’re a hardcore fan of strategy or management sim games looking for something to play on Android they’re worth at least a look.
Brash Games writes "The mobile games industry is a hugely profitable one these days, and with iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) leading the way it’s about time I gave you my ten favourite iOS games of 2011, here they are".
Outstanding list. And I'm always happy to see Jetpack Joyride get some love. Its a freakin' masterpiece.
Pocket Gamer - If you’ve been anywhere near an RTS in the past year, you’ll immediately recognise the influences behind Gameloft’s Starfront: Collision. It isn’t so much a gentle nod toward StarCraft II as a giant headbutt.
Then again, if you’ve been anywhere near Pocket Gamer in the past you’ll know that we tend to turn a blind eye to Gameloft's copycat ways, so long as the game plays solidly. Luckily, Starfront: Collision does exactly this.
That is pathetic...reminds me of when Two Worlds stole a library from Oblivion. Anyone remember that?
Well I don't know how they pull off making alternative copies of famous franchises and making pretty good ones @ that, But since they mostly devote their game development to the i-phone or pad, they can get away with that because the platform doesn't have many games like it.