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  • Summary: Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you.

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  1. Jul 18, 2019
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    I simply adore the Kingdom Rush series from Ironhide Game Studio, which is why I had to play Iron Marines. I tried to play it on my phone atI simply adore the Kingdom Rush series from Ironhide Game Studio, which is why I had to play Iron Marines. I tried to play it on my phone at first, but the RTS mechanics simply did not translate well to a touch screen, and the controls were clunky at best. When the game finally arrived on PCs, I made another approach and spent several evening with the game only to come to the conclusion that Ironhide Game Studio should simply stick to the Tower Defense mechanics. The game is not bad, by any means. It's simply okay and nothing more. Visuals and sound are top-notch as always, but the gameplay is just meh. In each mission you control a hero and several squads of base units (soldiers, mechs or empyreals [or simply Protoss]), and you go about the map, doing stuff. In the meantime you have to defend and develop your bases. Seems great, but in my experience it's just not that fun. The worst thing is the grind. You have to replay levels to develop your heroes who always start on level 1 (lvl 10 being max). The thing is, you'll unlock some of the heroes only after you've beat a good part or even the whole game, but level replayability is rather poor. What's more, after I unlocked the first few heroes, it turned out that the two base heroes are simply the best, because they use ranged weapons. All the other heroes mostly use melee attacks, and are all that much more difficult to control. Another part of the grind is earning the research points which you spend on upgrading your units. This way they receive more powerful abilities and become stronger overall. This is important if you want to beat the campaign as the missions are getting exponentially harder. But, since grinding is not really fun, and the mission replayability is low, the games becomes dull and repetitive at some point. In all seriousness, I would much rather this game was a sci-fi tower defense (maybe with some light base-building) than what it is now. I think I will wait for the Kingdom Rush: Vengeance to hit the PCs. Expand