James from Wedotech writes:
"Introversion are a niche developer whom have found a dedicated fan base. One of my favourite games of theirs definitely has to be Uplink. That game was pretty epic and I was hoping for a little more of that awesomeness in Darwinia+ for the XBLA. Sadly it doesn't quite hold me as much as Uplink does and that's not down to the game itself, more to do with a matter of taste and preference. Darwinia+ is a RTS come third person shooter and transitions to PC to the Xbox 360 extremely well, especially when it comes to the controls, but i'll get to that later. You play as a hacker whom has hacked into the the Darwinian universe only to find that their peaceful way of life has been threatened by a nasty computer virus. You meet a scientist named Dr. Sepulveda he greets you with some initial haste and calls on you to help the Darwinian's survive and overcome the virus itself..."
The new version/update of Darwinia will allow both new and longtime fans the chance to experience the acclaimed indie title, now better than ever!
"The UK-based indie games developer Introversion Software and Microsoft today announced with great delight and excitement that the legendary retro-like real-time tactics/real-time strategy game "Darwinia+" is now available on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One via the Microsoft store." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
EDGE - Darwinia is obviously a love-letter to videogame culture, but it’s also a part of it. It doesn’t just doff its cap to a catalogue of adored classics, it undertakes to capture what made them great within its own mechanics. So your Death Squads are controlled exactly as your men in Cannon Fodder were, and hurling digital grenades into bleeping knots of the Virus has all the tactile appeal of that game’s gratifyingly simple massacres. The Virus itself bears obvious visual similarities to the antagonists of David Braben’s ’80s groundbreaker of the same name, but more importantly it also poses the same sinister threat: no one part of it is formidable, but the volume and voracity of the whole constantly threatens to overwhelm. And a less visual nod to Lemmings – the mechanic by which you command the otherwise aimless Darwinians by promoting a few to direct the rest – pulls the same miraculous trick of making you care for something simply because it refuses to be your puppet.
