Just the cutest lil’ panzer spearhead.
Owen here, temporarily taking the helm back from Neumann as we put the great ship Pocket Tactics into port for the Thanksgiving holiday.
As is my idiom, I’m seizing the reins at the exact moment that the horses are going to sleep — this is a snoozer of a release night with exactly one good game on offer. But it’s a pretty dang good game. Come meet me after the jump and I’ll tell you all about the preview build of Wars and Battles I’ve been playing, and as a bonus we’ll read the tea leaves on whether or not to expect Telltale’s latest adventure tonight.
Wars and Battles was supposed to hit last week, but French devs Kermorio told us that Apple requested they hold it a week so they could feature it in the App Store. Once you get your hands on this game, you’re going to see why Cupertino wanted to give it the name-in-lights treatment: it’s just a gorgeous-looking thing.
And it’s not just pretty, either — I’ve had a preview build for a while now and it’s one of my favorite wargames of this year. Given that we’ve had Battle Academy 2, Heroes of the Revolution, and Desert Fox drop in 2014, I think that’s saying something. W&B is shipping with a set of WWII Normandy invasion scenarios, and the devs intend to continue supporting the game with more scenarios in 2015, including some beyond WWII. There is multiplayer right now.
I’ve got a lot more to say, but I’ll save it for the review that I’ve got sitting in the hopper waiting for midnight. Come back at 9pm Eastern when Wars and Battles goes live in the US for that.
Wars and Battles is iPad-only (Android and phone versions are coming, we’re told) and Kermorio are chunking out the content in a slightly unusual way. For $6.99 you’ll get the base game which includes the base campaign for the Normandy scenario and every scenario that Kermorio intends to ship later — they have 7 on the drawing board. There will be single IAPs that unlock a set of “advanced” scenarios and a grand campaign, but you can get everything for $9.99 I’m told. That’s a little confusing, but it makes more sense when you’re looking at the app.
Wars and Battles is out tonight at midnight for $7 wherever you are. Come back for my review at midnight Eastern.
Secondly, we just might see Telltale drop their latest adventure on iOS tomorrow. Tales from the Borderlands hit PC this past week but isn’t out in New Zealand right now, but if I remember right the last couple of new Telltale games showed up in the middle of the day on Thursday, not midnight Wednesday. So maybe we’ll see this in the next 24 hours. Or not. Either way, it gives me a good excuse to post this chuckle-worthy trailer.
And yes — as Neumann pointed out a couple of weeks ago — that is Patrick Warburton you’re hearing.
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