33rd DIVISION
by Craneballs Studios
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Description
LINE-DRAWING STEALTH GAME
The goal is to escort your men without enemy patrols noticing them. In this stealth game you must make quick and strategic decision based on your actual situation.
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REVIEWS
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33rd Division is one of the very best line drawing games in the App Store. It’s a brilliant idea executed wonderfully creating one of the best experiences to be had on the iPhone.
5/5 ABSOLUTE MUST
- Appadvice
33rd Division is definitely worth recruiting if you're looking for a path-drawing game with a few gameplay twists. It's easily one of the best of its kind. If nothing else, do it for the good of history.
4/4 MUST HAVE
- Slide to play
33rd Division matches up nicely to the quality of other line-drawing icon games such Flight Control and Harbor Master. So, if you think you are master of the sea, rule the sky, then why not show your military prowess on land and see how many soldiers you can lead to safety.
- touchiphonegames
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FEATURES
- play it for 5 minutes or a few hours
- 2 game difficulty modes – Life and Time
- 4 great WW2 missions situated in Europe
- Mighty power-ups
- growing game difficulty with Mortar & Sudden death in-game modes
- 3 different allies units and 4 different axis patrols with unique voices
- original soundtrack with ability to play your own music
- polished graphics & level design
- tutorial and mission briefs
- tactical save when you quit
- Online score using OpenFeint
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2 GAME MODES
Life mode is for casual players. You start with 5 lives and when a man is killed you lose one life. You can gain a life back if you are good commander. Game is over when you have no lives.
Time mode is for hardcore players. You must watch the time. When a man is escorted you gain seconds, when a man is killed you lose seconds. Game is over when you have no seconds left.
MIGHTY POWER-UPS
8 bonus items appearing randomly on map. Including double speed, invisibility, life and time bonus, various score bonuses, frozen enemies…
GROWING GAME DIFFICULTY
The more soldiers you save, the more enemy patrols appear. Later in game you can expect mortar fire or sudden-death. You never know what to expect next.
TROOPS
In your division there are Soldiers, Medics and Sergeants. They are moving by various speeds and you gain different points. Also enemy units are diverse, you will meet a watchdog, a heavy machine-gunner, a sidecar etc.
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK AND VOICES
Every map has its own original background music . All troops have unique character voices by Arin Hanson, The Egoraptor.
ONLINE SCORE
Each map and game mode has its own leaderboard using OpenFeint.
FEEDBACK
33rd Division has all the makings of a great game and will no doubt be amongst the top downloaded game on the iTunes App Store. The maps are stunning and the sergeant’s voiceovers will certainly make you stand up and pay attention.
- Appmodo
MORE GAMES FROM CRANEBALLS
BLIMP The Flying Adventure
What's New in Version 1.2
HAMBURG SUBMARINE DOCK WITH NEW POWER-UPS (TELEPORT AND CLONE)ACHIEVEMENTS AND OIL TRAPS.
Customer Reviews
Cool
Really good game, but i think you should be able to fight back.
addictively fun
I tell myself I'm going to play a quick came while microwaving my burrito, but then end up forgetting the burrito for an hour. And I love burritos!
I hope updates contain many more levels! The first six are fun, but I'm itching for more variety.
Even "Veterans" will welcome another one
As someone who has played nearly every line-drawing games for the iPhone, it can be a bit of not-another-line-drawing-game situation for me. I know probably most of you will agree because the appstore has seen an incredible and expanding amount of line-drawing games this recent year. And Craneballs Studios, the makers of Blimp: The Fying Adventures, makes it way to the line-drawing genre with their second game, 33rd Division.
D'oh! This will engage another palm-to-face-or-forehead movement attack for most of us. But I tell you, 33rd Division has enough things that will differ itself from others. The basic and simple concept is you basically need to guide your soldiers from a World War Two-esque atmosphere by drawing its path to it's destination with enemy soldiers patroling along your way. Enemy soldiers has a line of sight where as much as possible, you don't wanna put your allied soldiers into. You have to tap your soldiers for them to get down to the ground and not be seen by enemies' line of sight. Tap them again to resume its destination. But don't worry, the game has various power-ups and bonuses that will make your allies the ultimate soldiers of the WW2 era which includes invisibility, double speed, life-up, frozen enemies, time bonus, double score, triple score and super score.
It may sound not very complicated but do not expect this to be that simply, easy game. It may appear that way because of the simple concept of line-drawing games but to do well, you must deploy some patience, quick skill, strategy and some soldier instinct as the game gets quite challenging as you progress through all four maps. Each map is unique to its own and becomes harder progressively and you need to employ a different tactic for each of the locations, its not just a simple re-skinned version that has the same or no tactical differences from the others. And that's a good thing.
Additionally, there are two gameplay modes - Life Mode and Time Mode. In Life mode, you'll have to keep an eye on your remaining lives. This mode will require your patience and carefull planning to make your way through as you don't want to crazily get pass the enemy sights, otherwise, it will be game over when you lose all your life. Time Mode is the more fast-paced time-is-of-the-essence one. In here, it doesn't matter how many soldiers get killed because you play with, yes, a time limit which increases the difficulty! Each soldier you succesfully guide to its destination will give you additional time, and there are time extenders that randomly appears throughout the game.
Craneballs Studios is very well-known for its degree of polish of it's previous game, Blimp. And they have done it again with 33rd Division. Each map has its own unique background music that brings variation that felt so good and it greatly suits the style and theme of the game. Some subtle things worth mentioning are the various sound effects in the game and voice-overs done by the legendary Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson which brings humor to this already fabulous-looking game game. The art style is very clean and a pleasant to look at especially the hand-painted background which are gorgeous. I must say that the overall graphics and art style truly make 33rd Division pop.
Already, this has some fabulous value beong a 99 cent game. Openfeint integration is a plus where you can track your rank against the world. Welcome addtion would be some achievements but Craneballs Studioes promised more maps and little nooks and crannies will be on it's way via a free updates.
33rd Division blows away most of the other line-drawing games on the appstore and introduces some new concept to the genre which is truly remarkable and separates itself from being just another Flight Control clone. It is definitely more than worth its aking price and I can honestly recommend this to all especially to those who got tired of this genre - the Veterans of line-drawing. This game is a real value that is worth checking out.
- Category: Games
- Updated Nov 28, 2009
- Current Version: 1.2
- 1.2 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 30.5 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: SMID DESIGN, s.r.o.
- © 2009 Smiddesign s.r.o.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
