Where to apply the full power of the iPhone 3Gs and the future iPhone 4? Of course to the games. A good performance test will be the real-time strategy Castle Warriors, which tells about heavy medieval battles with dark barbarians from a neighboring village. The game was awarded the International Mobile Gaming Awards in the nomination «Best Practices in Game Design Development».
There is really something to look at in Castle Warriors: magnificent levels, differing in shape and content, clouds of warriors rushing to meet fate, fortresses that inspire fear only by their appearance. It seems a little more and the picture on the screen will reach the level of WarCraft III.
Despite the fact that the strategy on the phone is perceived as something dreary, with great difficulties in management, Castle Warriors refutes all these assumptions. It is not difficult to lead the troops at all, and events unfold so dynamically that they do not allow you to relax for a second.
Comparison with WarCraft can be attributed to the plot of the game. The kingdom is under attack by the forces of darkness. Thousands of orcs and trolls ravage the lands and kill people. You have only one goal in front of you — to prevent the enslavement of your native land. The twists and turns of the plot are revealed through the letters of Queen Minera to your address.
In each battle, the main and only task is to achieve control over all the towers in a certain number of days. Hundreds after hundreds of troops of soldiers will come to your disposal, it remains only to direct them to the weakest point of the defensive line or to attack the enemy's fort. Every day the power of forts and their ability to restore the number of troops will grow, so it's worth being scrupulous about protecting structures with four or three stars.
Attacking enemy positions it is worth paying attention to the fact that the enemy's towers have defensive abilities (arrows, magic) and accommodate an additional garrison that is not indicated on the flagpole in the form of numbers. Before throwing fighters forward, think twice.
The latest update to version 1.1 has brought to the game: a quick fight mode on unlocked maps, some errors in unit management have been fixed, the sensitivity of moving around the map has been balanced.
Based on my own experience, I do not recommend the game to iPhone 3G owners. Unfortunately, the capacity of the previous generation phone is a little lacking and playing Castle Warriors will not be very comfortable, so we can only envy the owners of 3Gs. We are waiting for the game on the iPad, there is WarCraft 3 in terms of graphics at hand. Actually, why not Blizzard itself to implement such an idea…
