Description
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The Best Turn Based Strategy Game on iPhone/iPod Touch
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ONLINE MULTIPLAYER ADDED!!!
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Jump into an exciting war between the Winged Crusade and the Landians! Mecho Wars is a turn-based strategy game where you command your troops to expand control and conquer your enemies. Strategically position your troops because each type has its strengths and weaknesses.
Command your troops to conquer structures for your team's benefit. Capture factories to expand maximum army support. To pay for this large army, take-over cities to earn gold from the rich economic hubs. Finally, defeat the enemy by capturing their H.Q. structures.
Included in the game is a rich story-driven single player campaign, a special set of individual challenge maps, and remarkable multi-player support with a single device.
The single player campaign is a story about the rise of the Winged Crusade. The story takes place in a distant land known as the Divination Deserts. This is not your typical desert since there is plenty of water separating land masses. Mecho Wars features a unique day-night cycle where water will freeze overnight. Once inaccessible areas by land troops can be reached in the early hours of the morning.
The day-night cycle isn't used only in the single player campaign. Try facing off against a friend in multi-player. Be amused when you place your troops in the right spots for an overnight ambush!
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Features
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- Online Multiplayer
- Openfeint
- 4 Different Online Modes
- 2 Campaigns (Winged Crusade and The Landians)
- 20 Campaign Levels (over 8 hours of gameplay)
- 10 Challenge Maps
- Exciting story
- Great 2D graphics
- Excellent soundtrack
- Day/Night features
- Facebook and Twitter integration
- The best turn based strategy game on iPhone according to several websites
- Listen to your itunes library while you play
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Reviews
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Like Advanced Wars, but on the iPhone. If you like turn based strategy, you should really look at picking this one up. It’s straight up turn based strategy goodness.
4.5 out of 5
http://www.148apps.com/reviews/mecho-wars/
This is hands down the best TBS game on the iPlatfrom.
4.5 out of 5
iphoneapps-review.com
If you enjoyed the strategy and planning of Advanced Wars on you gameboy advanced, check out Mecho Wars. It has mostly everything that you would want and retails for a relatively cheaper price.
4 stars out of 5
www.appvee.com
If you're into strategy titles and need a fix of Advance Wars, Mecho Wars is the best thing currently out for the Touch and iPhone.
Kotaku.com
Mecho Wars does everything right to suit the iPhone platform. The touch screen controls are well balanced, and compelling gameplay can make for some lengthy struggles over water, land, air and ice. Any game that I can play casually while making pancakes simultaneosly is a winner in my eyes.
8.5 out of 10
www.gamerlimit.com
What's New in Version 1.5.3
- Online multiplayer now shows the correct player rank when the player has achieved a higher rank. - Small bug fixes.
Customer Reviews
Scores with an original TBS game
There’s a saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and in many ways, you can say creativity follows the same route. Over the past few months, I’ve played more games for the platform that I would have imagined and am always when something fresh comes around. That’s what you have with Mecho Wars, a turn-based strategy game based in a fantasy world seen through the pastel-colored eyes of Luc Bernard and the inspiring music of Sean Beeson.
The game takes place in a faraway land known as the Divination Deserts with a storyline revolving around two warring factions—the Winged Crusade and the Landians. Playing as the Winged Crusade, the objective is to win battles and eventually the war over the Landians. Visually, the first thing that strikes you is the bright pastel colors, mostly the pink of the game field. The structures and the characters all take on a futuristic and cartoonish look that appeals to me, and I can tell you that these are creatures you haven’t seen before. The original soundtrack should appeal to many, and frankly, it’s one of the better ones I’ve come across.
Mecho Wars has two three game modes: Single Player, local only wifi Multiplayer, and Challenge. Single Player mode is the campaign and follows a linear storyline taking you through the rise of the Winged Crusade in 13 stages categorized in 3 acts. Once stages are completed, they are unlocked and can be replayed. Challenge offers 6 additional maps not found in the single player campaign. I can only hope that additional stages/levels are added to further exhibit the talents of the devs, and it may be worth adding an option to play as the Landians.
Two issues I came across are the lack of AI difficulty settings and an instructional tutorial, which I think need to be addressed. People with different skill sets have no options to adjust the game’s difficulty level and with the current version, it will undoubtedly be too easy or too hard as well as impacting replay value. In addition, the game has no instructions or breakdown of weapons or defenses which I can see being a problem for some.
Each side has 9 different units at their disposal with their own attributes (speed, attack range), strengths and weaknesses (impact against specific opposing units). On the Winged Crusade side, these include the Soldier, Ace Soldier, Elpho, Mage, Cannon, Bob and Birdie. For example, Mage offers midrange movement and extended attack range, while Bob and Birdie are the air troops that fly over water. With the Landians, their units include the Landian, Bazooka, Tech, Rocket, and Tank among others.
Unlike other turn-based games that show battles in the form of boxes attacking boxes on the game field, Mecho Wars sets itself apart by literally showing the battles in the form of animated scenes. This is done tremendously well and where the detailed illustrations shine. While you can turn off the option, I don’t why you would. You literally see the opposing factions shooting each other and the resulting consequences. In a way, this takes turn-based games up a notch in how battle scenes can and should be creatively displayed.
Beyond the graphics, the big differentiator for Mecho Wars is the use of time. Each wave of attack or defense is represented by hour which impacts strategy. In the Divination Deserts, large bodies of water surround the land masses, and once the hour reaches the midnight hour, the water freezes into solid ice, making it possible for land troops to travel across to other land masses. Of course once dawn arrives, troops better not be on the ice since it reverts back to water.
The gameplay is similar to other turn-based games in that you must find ways to finance defenses. Initially, the objective will be to build and capture cities and factories. Cities prosper and generate wealth, while factories provide troops and defenses. So as with any RTS, resource management plays a key part in success and failure. Tap on structures for a list of available options. The other thing to note is that you are limited in the number of accessible defense resources. For example, in the upper left or right corner depending on where you tap, a menu appears showing the amount of available funds, the time, and a count of available troop resources.
Using touch, drag along the map to view different parts of the map. Placing and moving defenses involve tapping on a unit to bring up a grid showing where that unit can be moved. Once you move to that desired area, you have two options: choose an action to see what happens, or tap to negate the move. If you choose to see an action, a window appears with a selection depending on the situation (e.g. stay, attack, dismiss, capture). Note: Dismiss gets rid of the selected unit and adds back to your resource pool.
Each level begins with a text box showing unit movements, offers tips and suggestions, and provides an overview on objectives. For example, in the first act, you’ll be faced with finding and capturing cities, which serves as a good introduction. Key rule of the game is to protect your headquarters (H.Q.) because once that’s captured, the game is over. The same applies on the Landian side so your underlying goal in addition to managing resources and placing units is to capture their headquarters. Capturing their factories will hinder the production of units. Anytime during the game, a brief overview of a specific unit can be pulled up by tapping on it. Even the status of the land, water and ice can be accessed this way.
Mecho Wars is certainly a feast for those who enjoy creative, original artwork. The gameplay is engaging and polished, and while there is issue with the lack of AI settings and local only wifi multiplayer (global online should be available in a month) in the current version, Mecho Wars offers a fun turn-based strategy game that people should definitely consider.
A Really Good Game That Could Be Great
This is a really good game. Turn based strategy games are a perfect fit for the iphone/ipodtouch. This game is beautiful and controls flawlessly. There is a good amount of challenge here, but not a TON of content - only 13 campain missions (the first 4 are tutorial), and a small handful of maps outside of the campaign.
There are a few details missing from the game such as allowing you to see your enemies attack / movement range and there is really no info on the strengths / weaknesses of each unit. These things are important in planning an effective strategy and should be available in any TBS game.
They have promised online multiplayer and a map creator and hopefully fixes to the above issues. If they come through with their promises and continue to update this super fun app this is easily a 5 star game and a sure classic.
Still a good game an highly reccomended. If you like TBS you will have some fun with this game.
Big thanks to the Devs for putting all this time and effort into this game - looking forward to more content and updates!!
That being said this is still a really fun game
Damn, I am suprised!
The outcome of this brilliant game was definitely worth all of the pre release hype. I have no complaints what so ever. The terrain is beutifully done and abstractly colored, it's quite a pleasant change from most games out today. That, and the excellently executed characters/weapons add to this unique and addictive twist of the Advance Wars style of strategy game. The controls are flawless and very well thought out even (ie. Small things like when you're clicking on the left side of the screen, the hud moves to the right and vice versa). I can't wait for online play. The only thing this game really could use in future updates would include some sort of map creator with the ability to share online and more music tracks from your wonderful composers (the sparce music on here is entrancinglly good). Great job devs, this one is a gem that has lots of potential for replayability! A new must have favorite of mine.
- Category: Games
- Updated Jan 23, 2010
- Current Version: 1.5.3
- 9.9 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Oyaji Games
- © 2009 Oyaji Games
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
