Score: 7

"logical"

by: Avaloniromman

date: October 1, 2009

bom jogo de estrategia

Score: 8

"Wonderful game, until the glitches take over. ;_;"

by: WarpZone

date: September 2, 2008

This is an intriguing defense game which brings some new features to the table. The story is a little preachy, with the Federation obviously meant to represent America. The veil is so thin that they start openly referring to Guantanamo in some of the later story segments. It is amusing in places, though, and I liked how Steve isn't depicted as a bad guy, despite remaining loyal to the Federation.

What's intriguing is, despite the anti-imperialist message, all the benefits of capitalism are built into the economic part of the game. The faster you can consolidate your farms into a single New New York, the better off you'll be, because one big city is easier to protect than many small ones. It also gives you more money, which lets you spend more on the military, which further drives your economy, leading to bigger bonuses and more money.

Unfortunately, the entire Earth Mission is full of errors, bugs, and glitches. Every time you place a city, the health bar appears on the other side of the planet. Worse, you can't click on the empty space or on the graphic of the city to access the city repair menu. (Although you can still park your ships in front of the health bar, and they will defend it.) After one level, the health bars reset to the right spot, so you need to move your ships.

Unfortunately, much later in the game, all your ships and cities become invisible, which means you can not repair anymore, and you can't even see what's going on in the battle. There's no reason to play the game after this point; it's a lost cause, and things don't get fixed if you survive a level in this condition.

Other than that, there's a lot of potential here. I like the novel defense-hybrid gameplay, and the tight integration of the story with the game. The voices could have been better, and I think SouthPark's stream-of-consciousness style of humor loses some of its punch when it's text-only. I hope they fix the bugs, because I'd really like to finish playing this game someday.

Score: 7

"great but one serious bug"

by: dwype

date: September 2, 2008

about halfway through the game my ships usually dissapear and then i can't build more of them. it's quite the annoying bug. otherwise i love this game : )

Score: 7

"Pretty good, needs some work"

by: Froggy618157725

date: September 2, 2008

I didn't notice any immunity problem, but then again I chose fire.

You need to balance things out. Commander mode lets you repair stuff in game. Woo!!
Hero lets you shoot a 30 second beam of uber death, generally enough to single handedly wipe out half the enemies, while a small elite strike force take out the rest.

A very monopoly like build queue. Small buildings are worthless, but if you can manage to get the best, you build like crazy. That's good. But you need to get that across to the user. Most people aren't going to get anywhere in this 'cause they don't realize only you can use that secondary, and building good buildings is better than building more defense.

What's the point of the slowing ship if 90% of guys are immune to it, it does no damage, and ships stop above cities anyways? A disabler ship would be much more useful, one that decreases enemy power or something like that.

And please, if you're going to take the effort to make a good game, make dialog that has acceptable grammar. That really hurt the game for me.

Score: 5

"Massive balance problem. Repairs Overpriced."

by: Twad

date: September 1, 2008

I didnt like it as a game at all, even with all the incomplete "help" files, the tutorial, the decent UI , nice music and simple gameplay and the kind of comical storyline. The game itself needs lots of balancing work to be fun, and need a bit of re-design to remove those parts where the game just screw the player over just because he dont know the scripts by heart.

Warning: Near the end of level 2 (wave 8) new ennemy pop up and pull a deus-ex machina on you; they will be even stronger than the red ones, faster, and immune to "standard" ships. Their damage is so ggreat that they vapourise a normal city in 3-5 shots, and dont expect to see your hard earned fleet survive for long if they are standart (it gives you 50% change of winning since the slow ships were useless for the whole level.. you might be good if you choose "fire")

.. and anyway, maxed lvl3 "STD" ships have low damage overall, 5 of them take ages to shoot down anything.

Difficulty is increasing fast, .... with little reward..
Lose the immunities; Not fun when your whole overpriced fleet is suddently useless and you got no way of doing the same to the ennemy, and selling them to rebuild is guaranteed death.

Repair cost is ridiculously massive, a 250$ income building cost about 1000 to fully repair. Their income is meaningless.. it doesnt cover their inevitable repairs..
At every round im losing about 60% of my whole treasury in city repairs!! Could cities repair themselves a bit for free? How can we make progress with so much economic attrition?!

Why do we lose when one city is glassed when we can rebuild it the next round for a bit more money than its repair cost? Make us lose when all is rubble.

Cities should have a shield.. a gun or anything that allows them to fight back.. if it can block even a bullet it would be nice.

DO NOT HAVE MORE CITIES THAN THE MINIMUM. More cities = more area that can be hit and make you lose money when they could have missed instead. Repairs are killing your economy. Sell, then build again if you must. The increased income isnt worth it at all (and building cost is high too, build ships instead)
Repair them at all time. YOu will need to do it to win.

Concentrating your forces dont work. Ennemies can target cities from a far distance at a steep angle.. disperse them everywhere so less likely-ish that a shot will get through. Keep some ships as "runner", those with firepower and HP, to meet the ennemy.

Use cheap ships as a wall (quiet) to protect cities from direct bombardment. Expect to lose them the instant the ennemies start shooting. It might buy you that instant you need to win. Or not.

The "repair all button" should.. repair all. It just repair ships. we gotta repair (the vastly overpriced) cities manually. Or make a button to "repair all cities"

unlocking ships should give usefull information BEFORE we buy it.. not AFTER. Same thing with cities... i wanna know their income before i build. I wanna know the numerical hp of everything before i buy too! Are upgraded cities stronger?

Losing upgraded ships = losing a TON of hard-earned ressources; repair them at all and any opportunity. Dont lose them!