![]() Find the delicate balance between harvesting the land for resources and preserving it to stay alive. ![]() Greed Corp is an award winning, innovative turn-based strategy game, situated in a rich, fictional world inspired by the industrial revolutions and their destructive effects on the environment. Greed Corps is joy at every level, a cross-platform must-have.About This Game Turn-based strategy at its finest I don’t know what they plan as a follow-up, but if they maintain this level of polish and thoughtfulness, this commitment to taking cool new ideas and seeing them through properly, they really can’t go wrong. This is the first game set in what developers W!Games call the “Mistbound” universe, a steampunkish fantasy world of scarcity and, obviously, corporate greed. The enemy AI is just smart enough to force you to learn to play properly, without forcing you to become a machine yourself. There isn’t much of a learning curve, since the basic concepts that underlie all the chaos are pretty simple and consistent. If not, Greed Corp’s single-player campaign is more than rewarding enough, especially at a 10-buck price. Multiplayer can be a riot if, as usual, you hook up with the right bunch of people. You’re playing a thoughtful game of strategy, yeah, but your limbic system is in full action mode. As an audiovisual experience it owes more to, say, God of War than Catan. Greed Corp’s levels feel less like maps and more like dynamic sculptures, cracking and rumbling, shattering, exploding. ![]() Turn-based strategy games, coming as they do from the days of tabletop wargames, tend to be abstract, iconic affairs. That’s another thing to love about Greed Corp, its awesome physicality. So very satisfying, like a sweet cascade in Bejewelled. Blowing up one of your own harvesting installations, for example, is often one of the smartest moves you can make the detonation shatters the surrounding rock, and the chain reaction might just take down your opponent’s whole operation.Īh, the chain reactions. Finding ways to orchestrate the ongoing cataclysm in your favor - or to your least detriment, actually - makes for interesting new strategic twists. There is just no way to adopt a cautious strategy when even “conservative” moves obliterate whole chunks of planet. ![]() It lights a fire under your butt from the get-go. I can’t say enough about the fresh bundle of thrills this catastrophic-destruction angle brings to a genre that is historically quite conducive to a certain degree of pokiness. You and your opponents are literally destroying the world under your feet as you scrabble to dominate your ever-shrinking patch of terra firma. No cheerful mountain icons that slap up a polite little “Mine Closed” sign once you’ve sucked them dry Greed Corp’s playfields are built of towering spires of rock rising out of a misty void, and as you drain their riches they crack, crumble and eventually tumble down into oblivion. Greed Corp is a resource-centred, turn-based strategy game which - as the name clearly states - doesn’t pussyfoot around its ruin-the-earth objectives. Thanks to the release of the PC edition via Steam earlier this week, I now have a timely justification for clueing you in to this sweet and substantial gem of a game. I must’ve been all messed up on Heavy Rain. It’s been bugging me all year, the fact I didn’t review Greed Corp when it was released for PS3 and 360 in February.
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