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| The Pocket
PC Wargame Genre By Damian Julian |
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It's been a distracting Pocket
PC wargame session with Handmark's Warfare Incorporated
for Pocket PC.
I experienced flashes of Command and Conquer pangs
of nostalgia as I started erecting power generators
to keep my turrets active. It was the only thing
holding the enemy AI units at bay.
You're on planet Icarus and you're fighting for
resources against the OMNI corporation. You have
to build storage houses to store the gem-like patches
on the map for the real-time strategy PPC wargame.
Once you've upgraded to the gills with the money
you've earned, you get to use some high-powered
weaponry.
You'll find Warfare Incorporated extremely engaging
and more difficult as the campaign missions continue.
Soon enough, I had been sucked into this mobile
real-time strategy game universe on my iPAQ.
I had been RTS gaming without realizing it when
my dad came home with The Ancient Art of War by
Brøderbund in 1984 for his desktop PC.
This desktop PC game caused quite a stir in the
gaming community back then, with rudimentary gameplay
balancing that became a more complex staple in subsequent
incarnations in the genre.
It took a while, but we're at the point where great
real time strategy games on our PDAs don't just
have to be desktop-to-PDA ports like Age of Empires
as attested to Warfare Incorporated's presence on
the RTS gaming scene.
I protected my mobile Dominion HQ with a few scout
ships during a "crossing the plains" mission
in the trial download, then unleashed a can of vehicular
whupass in the subsequent savage, unequal battle
during the next mission.
I pinned the enemy AI down and made short work of
his power generators, disabling his turrets.
I then amassed my rocket-propelling infantry and
my better class ships instead of some wussy light-armoured
scout ships.
This led to some laser filled enemy-building-burning
action, of which I'm not too proud. The AI humiliation
was thorough.
I've been RTS battle-hardened on my desktop PC as
my colleagues habitually attempt to decimate one
others' forces in Age of Mythology, Rise of Nations
and C&C Generals Zero Hour, amongst others.
Now we can keep the real-time game party going on
our PDAs with a release unique to the Pocket PC
platform.
Let's hope for more original real-time wargame Pocket
PC releases like this and fewer desktop to PDA game
transitions in the future.
Damian Julien is a Pocket PC gaming authority and
long time general gaming hobbyist and reviewer.
He is an IT specialist by trade and has posted numerous
articles on Pocket PC emulators, gaming and trends
in the industry.
http://www.pdagameguide.com/
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