Notably, the AI registers your skill level and adjusts to it, so it gets smarter as you get more skillful. Hence, the first mission is roughly a tutorial guiding you through the offense and defense units, options, building types and map while the other two free ones let you try your wits and see how fun the game is. As you start off, the UI shows straightforward descriptions and shows you what to do. Thankfully, the first mission literally takes you by the hand and shows around while the Game Center or Google Play services register your rank and the stats. The touch controls are smooth, but some management buttons may be indeed a bit too small, especially when you have a lot of items on your hands. Nonetheless, it does suggest a learning curve, which depends on a player's previous experience with the game itself, or the RTS genre in general. The difficulty of the micro-management does not need to be off-putting, and fans of the real time strategy games appreciate the depth and the essence of the game, since the similar level of quality is a rare thing on the mobile platform. You can't just play on the offense because the enemy never sleeps, and you'll be attacked from the flanks you haven't protected properly. The gameplay is complex, and if you haven't played TAA on desktop, you may need an hour or two to sort out the UI, the micro-management roll, the map and the mini-map, the assortment of units, and most importantly, your strategy.Īt its core, TAA, pardon the acronym, is a blend of tower offense and tower defense, where you have to think for both directions. The single player campaign mode features 12 missions, with the final battle in Washington D.C. Also, players can choose to be on one of the nine parties – Germany, USA, UK, France, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia or USSR. In multiplayer mode, players can engage in cross-platform 4-player PvP or player versus AI missions. Timelines : Assault on America features two modes – campaign and multiplayer, with the latter uniting desktop and mobile players from all over the world. Chances are it's not the game, but your device. It may not run on certain devices due to the game being quite 'serious' about its own weight and hardware resources it requires, so don't rush to give it a bad rating just because it fails to launch. The full game costs $3.99 via the in-app purchase.Īndroid tablets should have at least 1GB of memory available and be 7 inches wide iOS devices should run at least iOS 6. To be precise, three missions out of 12 are available for free, as well as 10 hours of multiplayer gameplay. The mobile version is a freemium game, offering plenty of content to try for free before players need to choose whether to buy the rest of it, or not. The game was released on Windows, Mac and Linux in September 2013, then re-released for Steam in 2014, and in February 2015 it finally launched on Android and iOS. What it does have is a gorgeous arsenal of heavy machinery, weapons and men, a fluid and complex UI, a beautifully rendered 3D map, cinematic soundtrack and a full box of other goodies for hardcore RTS fans. The game does not have flying saucers, however. Of course, there would have been allied forces of Japan, Italy and Spain backing the invasion. What would have happened had Germany beat the Soviets and the British, had Ahnenerbe made a quantum leap in 'science' researching alien technology, and the Third Reich used foo fighters to invade the United States of America, proudly parading the glory of the Aryan race across the streets of the defeated Yankees. Timelines: Assault on America elaborates on the subject of WW II in one of the most unexpected and non-researched ways. Die Fahne hoch emanates from the loudspeakers all over the place, as the Nazi march a conqueror's parade in front of the White House, the starry striped flag lays dirty and torn on the bomb-shattered, once green lawn. in the smoking ruins, a bloody sun is rising behind the Capitol Hill. Price: FREE ($3.99 unlocks the full game).
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