This game is fantastic, I picked it up last week, and am moving through the campaign mode right now. I had to spend the weekend with the in-laws and was able to get some good play time in (yay for hand-helds). The two front war is a great use of the Dual Screens which really adds to the game-play. The Tag-Team CO Power is pretty important to wining a match, as it lets you get two turns in a row, plus both of your CO's Super powers. Make sure your CO's have complimentary skills and use them in the correct order (ie start with the missile attack, the follow up with the tank blitz) They even added a few new units to the game which fill in some gaps that were there nicely.
Unfortunatly I don't know anyone who stuck with the DS after the PSP came out. Most of my gaming friends fell for the glitz of the package of the PSP rather than the proven track record of Nintendo mobile gaming.
Hopefully as more and more great games like this one come out for the DS and well nothing continues to be released for the PSP, they will come back and I'll be able to try out the multiplay.
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I have to think that Real Ultimate Power has to be on this list, cause I just can't stop thinking about ninjas.
I consider myself a gamer, and yes I play a lot of video games. But it's such a narrow definition of gamer. To be certain there is a broad spectrum of games out there, only a small fraction are based in the electronic realm.
Card games, from spades to MtG, constitue as large of a player base as electronic gaming if not larger. They provide the same sort of competition that comes from a honed skill set bent on defeating an opponent. Sports are games as well. While they require more physical skill than mental strategery, it's still possible to out think your opponent. Board Games, Table Top RPG's, Live Action RPG's, even those little peg puzzles at the cracker barrel, all of these are games. Yet for some reason when someone says "gamer" it applies only to the video game in people's eyes, and apparently according to this article only to the eccentric video gamer.
I think if you are to be a gamer, you should have broader horizons.
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This game is fantastic, I picked it up last week, and am moving through the campaign mode right now. I had to spend the weekend with the in-laws and was able to get some good play time in (yay for hand-helds). The two front war is a great use of the Dual Screens which really adds to the game-play. The Tag-Team CO Power is pretty important to wining a match, as it lets you get two turns in a row, plus both of your CO's Super powers. Make sure your CO's have complimentary skills and use them in the correct order (ie start with the missile attack, the follow up with the tank blitz) They even added a few new units to the game which fill in some gaps that were there nicely. Unfortunatly I don't know anyone who stuck with the DS after the PSP came out. Most of my gaming friends fell for the glitz of the package of the PSP rather than the proven track record of Nintendo mobile gaming. Hopefully as more and more great games like this one come out for the DS and well nothing continues to be released for the PSP, they will come back and I'll be able to try out the multiplay.
I have to think that Real Ultimate Power has to be on this list, cause I just can't stop thinking about ninjas.
I consider myself a gamer, and yes I play a lot of video games. But it's such a narrow definition of gamer. To be certain there is a broad spectrum of games out there, only a small fraction are based in the electronic realm. Card games, from spades to MtG, constitue as large of a player base as electronic gaming if not larger. They provide the same sort of competition that comes from a honed skill set bent on defeating an opponent. Sports are games as well. While they require more physical skill than mental strategery, it's still possible to out think your opponent. Board Games, Table Top RPG's, Live Action RPG's, even those little peg puzzles at the cracker barrel, all of these are games. Yet for some reason when someone says "gamer" it applies only to the video game in people's eyes, and apparently according to this article only to the eccentric video gamer. I think if you are to be a gamer, you should have broader horizons.
Seems to me this is a decent setup to deploy wireless robots in the battle field, with the added bonus of jamming other communication signals.