Reviews for Airborne Wars

[Ericho]

This was a strange game. For the most part, it was enjoyable, but it was just very awkward. I do have to give you credit for having some pretty original designs. It did come off as a tad silly as times, especially with how funny the soldiers looked. It's still a game that has nice graphics and everything looks organized. It's all easy until you reach your first failure.

The appearance of the medals seem to be out of order. I thought the music was also fairly decent. It's worth checking out, if only to see how far you can get. It's weird how the difficulty changes so much. At least you have plenty of time to experiment.

[chaosbot]

Level 20 is the only challenging level. That said - it was kind of boring - AI doesn't even make an attempt to rush you at any stage - just keeps grinding away at the same targets. To be fair if the AI were to play hardball in the last stage, it would grind the player to a pulp every time. I suppose that is the fundamental flaw of the game: the AI has to play badly, otherwise whenever the AI starts with more resources than the player, it would wipe out the player. Strategy is simple: rush/reinforce, repeat. Attack/defense is also not too hard: airport beats fort, fort beats barracks, barracks beats air defense, air defense beats airport (OK, so its a little more complicated: but the fixed nature of the well planned maps, essentially means this formula works). The only level with a different play structure was the one where you had to let the AI attack an unclaimed barracks... but this obvious from the outset (AI starts with more troops than you, no-one has any barracks!)

Suggestions? Have the AI rush/reinforce a few times before giving up and playing badly. Remove the limitation of where barracks can send troops. Make air defense movable (slow). Make planes drop bombs (say one bomb per troop) - bombs are dropped on the target or on troops the plane flies over - one bomb should kill two troops, except in a fort? (Logically then troops can only transferred into an airport.)

The graphics/sound is fine - would probably like this game better with a more flexible game mechanic.

Only (minor) bug - medal for level 20 didn't unlock.

[platform]

This Is Hard Game There Are One Base On Break Point In Level 20

[sethc4]

great game is there going to be a 2nd one

[pirate593]

A good game, the scrolling got in the way sometimes but other than that it was thoroughly enjoyable.

If i may make a suggestion though, i think the airport was missused, i felt like it should be something that was difficult to get, but valuable in that it would drop troops directly on the enemy as opposed to marching into gunfire. I mean, i think it should be more challenging to get, but instead of dropping a line of troops and having them converge on the target, have it automatically do the damage once the plane arrives.