Here this is alright. The cover system works well, battles feel dynamic and tactical, the

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Bit generic maybe, overly edgy, nothing I haven't seen before, but it feels nice and solid and

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Okay. I get the impression it's meant to be played as a team, different classes complementing each other, the usual stuff, but I'm doing fine solo so far and

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Look. Right. I just want to shoot some guys. But I've had enough of repeating myself. For now.

Do not ever play this game.

In the end you have 6 choices, and if you commit a single mistake, you can only have a bad choice.

Stay far away from Anshar Studios, terrible, terrible design.

You are punished for playing the game.

Fun if repetitive little strategy title.

I bought it in a sale and had a good time with it. It involves defending cities from waves of attacks by aliens spinning different defense rings to line guns up to shoot. Lining two or three guns of the same type in a row causes them to connect like transformers and become more powerful. There are various weapons you can use and upgrade and several cities to jump between but it's all pretty much the same after you've done one though some cities have less areas you can use on the rings and different enemies for challenges.

There are quite a few different characters each with their own personality that unlock as the story progresses. I initially found some annoying but they kind of grew on towards the end.

All in all if you get it at a good price it's a good weekend of fun to be had here. I got the platinum which took a little longer but it was by no means a hard title to master.

+ Idea is pretty fun.
+ Some quirky characters can be entertaining....

-....and a little annoying.
- Game gets repetitive pretty quickly.

Civ is great and the base gameplay has been amazing in every title since at least Civ 3. But when you have so many fantastic titles, you start to get picky with bazaar tweaks, lack of evolution, and dlc approach. If you have Civ 5 with full dlc, then there's really no reason to buy a new game because hardly anything has evolved since then. I'm also boggled by how bad the ai remains, even in harder difficulties. But if this is the only Civ game you play then you'll be entertained for at least 100 hours guaranteed. And sometimes new bells and whistles are fun even if you end up returning to Civ 5.