Gratuitous Space Battles Review – The best part of space strategy games
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By: Red Marble Games
Version #: 1.56.4
Date Released: 2012-05-25
Developer: Red Marble Games
Price: 9.99
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Gratuitous Space Battles is a neat game. It offers the best from space strategy games in one package: the battles. If you are one to love Master of Orion styled games (like Starbase Orion, which we have already reviewed) you’ll love this game.
Gratuitous Space Battles leaves all the long-term strategy out. No need to build factories, orbital shipyards, terraforming plans. Just design your ships within budget, and watch your fleets collide. You can set orders for each of your ship to decide what to do. Watch huge laser beams fly and smash enemy shields.
In Gratuitous Space Battles there are plenty of unlocks to “buy”. Each time you pass a mission, the extra credits you don’t spend in your fleet design can then be used to unlock new weapons, ship hulls and races. This is the way to get an EMP cannon, or a cruiser rocket launcher.
Create your perfect ship and watch it come out victorious… Or get smashed. A tip: cruisers equipped with many cruiser rocket launchers can be a dead blow to enemy ships… Unless their frigates are equipped with many EMP missiles. Be prepared for a nasty fight then.
In short: Gratuitous Space Battles picks the best from space strategy games and delivers in a neat iPad package
Quick Take
Value:High
Would I Buy Again:Probably
Learning Curve:High
Who Is It For:Space strategy die-hards
What I Like:The idea is very fun
What I Don't Like:Frequent crashes in the end of the battles in my iPad 1
Final Statement:A very, very good game for iPad
Gratuitous Space Battles In GSB you put your ships together from modular components, arrange them into fleets, give your ships orders of engagement and then hope they emerge victorious from battle (or at least blow to bits in aesthetically pleasing ways).
Gratuitous Space Battles aims to bring the over-the-top explodiness back into space strategy games. The game is for everyone who has watched big space armadas battle it out on TV and thought to themselves 'I could have done a much better job as admiral'.
This is not a game of real-time arcade twitch reflexes. GSB is about what ships you design, and what you tell them to do. Your individual ship commanders have total autonomy during the chaotic battle that unfolds. This is not a tactical game, it is a strategic one. These gratuitous space battles are not won by plucky heroes with perfect teeth, but by the geeky starship builders who know exactly what ratio of plasma-cannons to engines each ship in the fleet will need.
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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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