Out of Eight writes: "The movie 300 shows that sometimes its fun to defend against high numbers of invading attackers and mow them all down (the Spartans did win that battle, right?). The defensive side of the gaming equation has only gotten sporadic attention in the form of strategy games like Stronghold and unfairly balanced first person shooters like the Serious Sam series. Most of the time, even in assault games, there are people on both sides fighting for freedom (and usually screaming about it). This (I think) brings us to Iron Grip: Warlord, a defensive game where you and a team of buddies defend against an AI invasion by building defensive structures and shooting people in the face. The Isotx team previously developed a total conversion mod for Half-Life 2 which, as far as I can tell, is significantly different from Iron Grip: Warlord except for the setting and the combination of both first person shooter and real-time strategy gaming."
The Good:
+Very challenging and requires team coordination
+Both first person combat and strategic defensive placements
+Plentiful upgrades based on performance
+Chaotic fun
The Not So Good:
-Can't play as the offense
-Brain-dead AI doesn't cooperate well or engage vehicles in single player
-Only a handful of structures
-Enemy vehicles are overpowered
Check out these awesome new Iron Grip Warlord Screenshots. The first-person shooter combined with many real-time strategy elements, using the id Tech 3 game engine. Available exclusively on Microsoft Windows.
Nightmare Mode gives indie FPS/Tower Defense title Iron Grip: Warlords a playthrough and then writes about what makes the game so great: its atmosphere. Along the way they try to tell the story of the defense of some funnily named faux eastern European palace, show pictures of men holding guns, and there's probably even a little bit of crying.
Neocrisis: This new trailer shows the Bunker Map.
