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Warbits |OT| Adorable Advance Wars-like Turn-based Strategy game (iOS)

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Saucycarpdog

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Developer: Risky Lab LLC
Platforms: iOS, Android version coming at a later date
Price: $2.99(limited launch sale)

Fans of Advance Wars and turn-based strategy titles this one is a must have!

Description

-- Launch sale limited time only! --
Warbits, a war simulator for a better tomorrow. Give peace a fighting chance by settling your differences casualty free. Don't agree with your fellow factions? You don't have to! Put those blasters down, load up Warbits, and virtually crush the opposition!

--TURN-BASED STRATEGY--

CAMPAIGN - Battle through 20 missions across 5 unique environments as you unravel the story of a dysfunctional galaxy and the war simulator designed to save it.

POWERS - Supercharge your army with 16 game changing power-ups.

ONLINE OR LOCAL - Take the fight online with Game Center or play locally against friends and AI opponents.

TAG MATCHES - Automatically compete against a custom leaderboard of your friends or social communities by tagging matches with #CustomTags.

INSTRUCTION MANUAL - Harken back to the golden age of cracking open a new game with this classic instruction manual: http://riskylab.com/WarbitsManual

OTHER FEATURES
• Asynchronous gameplay
• 40 Custom versus maps
• 15 Game Center achievements
• Replays & in game messaging
• Sync campaign progress with iCloud
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Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flpnEnzE5Yk

Pics:
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Katori

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Holy crap, this is finally out? It's been years since I've first seen it. Hope the devs can recoup their investment. Insta-bought.
 
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Lavpa Jasai

Member
I've been following this game for years and years now, waiting, checking every month for it to come out. ITS FINALLY HERE! I've been trying to sell EVERYONE I know on this game. Gotta get me some of that advance wars gameplay. From what I've played so far, I'm very impressed with pretty much everything about it.
 
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pinkurocket

Member
I'll probably jump on an Android version. As far as mobile gaming goes, this seems like the perfect thing if it can live up to it's inspiration (AW).
 
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jon bones

hot hot hanuman-on-man action
been waiting ages for this - will cop and buy 2 copies for my bros so we can get some multiplayer in
 
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linid0t

Member
Pretty great so far. Immediately wished there was an option to speed up animations though, I always turn them off or as low as possible in FE and AW games. Definitely has the feel of AW, I wonder how complex it'll get in later levels.
 
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Lavpa Jasai

Member
linid0t said:
Pretty great so far. Immediately wished there was an option to speed up animations though, I always turn them off or as low as possible in FE and AW games. Definitely has the feel of AW, I wonder how complex it'll get in later levels.
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Yeah that's my only gripe so far. Wish I could just touch the screen during the enemies turn to fast forward what's happening.
 
G

Granadier

Is currently on Stage 1: Denial regarding the service game future
The description section on the store is hilarious.

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Purchased.
 
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Ashtar

Member
Got dayum this looks good I wonder if it'll just be another mobile game I never play though.... For 3 dollars..... Tempting any impressions?
 
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hardcastlemccormick

Banned
Played this during the beta. It's a great version of Advance Wars. It's a shameless clone, but it's funny, polished, and well tuned. I didn't love the art style but it's grown on me. I liked it enough to buy it.

It's literally Advance Wars though. Don't expect innovation here. Just a lot of polish.
 
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RecRoulette

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hardcastlemccormick said:
Played this during the beta. It's a great version of Advance Wars. It's a shameless clone, but it's funny, polished, and well tuned. I didn't love the art style but it's grown on me. I liked it enough to buy it.

It's literally Advance Wars though. Don't expect innovation here. Just a lot of polish.
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Ugh, that sucks, I'm down for a shameless clone. I'll have to pick this up when it comes to android. Can't play something like this on my phone.
 
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epmode

Member
The visualization of movement range after you highlight a unit is uncharacteristically ugly. All those dots. Why not just handle it like Intelligent Systems did?

Aside from that, the game is really polished. Snappy UI animations, nice sound effects, etc.
Cyan said:
Is there IAP in this?
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Pretty sure it's IAP-free.
 
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hardcastlemccormick

Banned
Just fired it up on my iPad Air. It's a damn nice sight on a bigger screen, though I think I prefer the iPhone 6s. The smaller screen reminds me of Dual Strike or Days of Ruin, and it's not a flashy game like Xcom. (There's no unit attack animations. But who left those on in AW anyway? :p)

The iCloud saves are amazing though. I picked up where I left off in the campaign and that save file was from the beta. Incredible.

Real glad there are good mobile games like this. It's the full package.
 
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kiguel182

Member
Played the first couple of levels and man, the graphical design is so good, what a slick interface. The gameplay seems pretty fun too. I think I'm really going to love this game.
 
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BTA

Member
I always was interested in playing AW as a kid (it always looked so neat in Nintendo Power!) but never did, so I'm going this scratches that itch a little. It's been really neat so far!
 
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flipswitch

Member
Nice feature is, you can exit the game at any time, and once you return you'll be right where you left off.


You can also zoom in and out of the map.
 
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Mikeside

Member
I beta tested this over the past month or so and it's a fantastic game. I'm surprised they priced it so low.

I'll buy it again on each and every platform they choose to release on
 
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teacupcopter

Banned
I played this during the beta test and loved it. I'm a big Advance Wars fan but a casual one, I didn't do any theorycrafting (is that just a WoW term? Whatever) on it so I don't know how this stacks up from a balance thing but it's cheap, cute, funny, smooth to play and scratches that Advance Wars itch like nothing else. And no IAP. Just amazing.

Of course due to all that it will bomb horribly. Hopefully I'm proven wrong on that :(
 
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Marow

Member
Been playing for a while and love it. It's a speedier Advance Wars and apart from one minor change or two (which helps spice and speed up gameplay) it's identical. Great visual style and great music, too. So far the only "bad" aspect is that the dialogue seems a bit uneven in quirkiness (and sometimes resorts to smileys which is odd). The map design is pretty nice so far in the campaign which surprises me. Just started trying out multiplayer and the versus maps, so I'll have to wait and judge those... even if they look good from what I can tell.

Ahh, I've always wanted a new Advance Wars and this game sure hits the spot for me. We should create a GAF tag.
 
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