Battle Academy Review – Hardcore turn based strategy for iPad
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By: Slitherine Software UK Ltd.
Version #: 2.05
Date Released: 2012-12-07
Developer: Slitherine Software UK Ltd.
Price: 19.99
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Battle Academy for iPad is one of those games that suddenly appear in your “other people bought” stream, apparently from nowhere. After all, Battle Academy for iPad is a quite expensive game. So, what’s the deal with it?
Battle Academy for iPad is (quite obviously) the iPad port of a computer game, originally created by the BBC, aptly named Battle Academy too. The goal? Follow the Allies (or the Axis) campaigns in freeing Europe and Africa.
Battle Academy is a hard game, the old-school-turn-based-count-your-dice type. If you are the type to enjoy the Civilization saga (I am one, but on a low level,) this is a game you’ll enjoy a lot.
And what innovations offers this game? Well, for one, Battle Academy offers superb animations and graphics. Zoom in, zoom out but the quality of the renderings is amazing. Gameplay is also very smooth (although each level will eat quite a junk of your time… and your battery life,) which is quite a feat in a turn based game, where usually gameplay can suffer.
In short: Battle Academy will delight turn-based warfare lovers, to an unreached level for an iPad game.
Quick Take
Value:High
Would I Buy Again:No, too expensive
Learning Curve:Extremely high
Who Is It For:Hardcore strategy fans
What I Like:Realism, graphics
What I Don't Like:Hard, real hard
Final Statement:A very good port of a great computer game
Battle Academy Inspired by an original online game concept devised by the BBC, the game has more than 30 battles in a range of theatres of war from the North African desert through D-Day to the to the snowy Ardennes mountains where the Allies battled to repel the final German offensive.
The team at Slitherine worked with Professor John Buckley, Military Historian at the University of Wolverhampton and a keen wargamer himself, to make sure that the strategy, tactics, scenarios and available firepower of the battles fought in WW2 were turned into realistic AI behaviour, powering expertly crafted battles.
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Article By ruben
Ruben Berenguel is finishing his PhD in Mathematics while writing in mostlymaths.net about being a 'geek of all trades'. He also happens to be the senior editor in the What's on iPhone network: any complaints go to him!
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