EPIC is the new animated movie of the guys who made
Ice Age. It tells the story of a battle between little guys in the wood and
little dark guys of shadows who want to destroy all the forests: the Jinns and
the Boggans.
The EPIC game is all this universe put on the Kingdom
& Lords game published by Gameloft in 2012. This is a mix between battles
and headquarters managements. The whole being guided by the movie story and
events on a high level, and by a succession of micro-tasks on a low level.
#HQ management
HQ management is taking some roots into Dune 2 where
you have to construct buildings that will generate more resources and buildings
that will generate military units. Be careful with the buildings you buy
because you won’t be able to destroy them, and there is not too much free
space.
Your resources are limited and you have to be patient
while more resources are being generated or you can buy them with aura, the
game’s money.
This gameplay is really similar to others city
builders we can find on mobiles, like the Aida’s X-City, within papaya
platform.
This duality #HQManagement and #Battles is very good
mix that we can also find in the X-COM series.
#Battles
Battles are kind of light-rpg style. A unit will win
another one applying the old rock, paper, scissor rules so before the battle,
you choose your army’s five units depending on the enemy’s army you’ll have to
fight and on the units you have produced during headquarters management mode.
Then you enter in combat mode. Battles are
turn-by-turn, but going quick on a automatic mode. Your only actions during the
battles are to activate or not some attack and defence bonuses. These bonuses
have to be bought with aura.
Being tied with EPIC movie, this game can be played
for free and is including freemium mechanics. One of the game’s defaults is
that the price of aura is quite high and, in my opinion, it restrains any
impulsion of buying them.
#Conclusion
The alternance between management and battles gives
the game an entertaining pace, mixing it with a story and an environment as
nice as EPIC’s ones and you would be playing this game for hours.
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