Infested Planet Review (Strategy Informer)

From Strategyinformer.com: "Poor old aliens. All they want to do is expand throughout the universe, devouring all organic life. Then some whooping redneck jetpacks down from on high, wielding an assortment of high-tech weaponry, and blows their mandibles off. It's a hard life.

Infested Planet is a top-down real time strategy game with more than a hint of the tower defence genre about it, in which you take the role of a squad of mercenaries battling swarms of alien bugs. You start off with five marines, all armed with a reasonably effective, if unspectacular, assault rifles and some rocket launcher rounds. The game's single currency, BP, can be traded for further squad members, upgrades and building options, but to gain it you'll have to take down alien nests scattered about the level. This typically involves selecting your squaddies and pointing them at the nearest hive, which constantly spew out enemies, then waiting for them to blow it up with a gratifying splat. There's various capture points like this spread across each map for you to take and control, and defend against alien counter-attacks.".