Games Database
PC
Strategy: Combat
| Viewed: | 3D Combination | Genre: | Strategy: Combat |
| Media: | CD | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | Mithis | Soft. Co.: | Ascaron |
| Publishers: | Cenega
(GB) |
Released: | 6 May 2005
(GB) |
| Ratings: | PEGI 12+ |
Summary
Animals. Awesome things, not least when they fight to the death. If we’re honest, we all have dream animal showdowns we’d like to see. Polar Bear versus Bengal Tiger: will we ever know who’d win? What about Croc against Lion? Surely no beast could chin an Elephant? While the answers to these most empirical of questions will have to wait, Cenega have an offering coming to PC that will give us an insight into the relative martial merits of Wolverine, Skunk, Rabbit and Baboon. If they were each in teams of four, that is. And battling for control of the planets of a galaxy far away. With guns.
OK, so it’s not real animals fighting. But animals with guns? Duking it out? Add in the key phrase ‘turn based action strategy’ and it’s all beginning to sound like one of our favourite games of all time, Hogs of War on the PS2. In terms of turn based animal warfare it’s yet to be bettered. Imagine Worms 3D if it was good, and then add the voice of Rik Mayall.
Creature conflict, then, allows you to choose one of the four afore-mentioned clans, each headed by 1 ‘Boss’. With a selection of more than 30 weapons to choose from, the loopy lifeforms battle for supremacy over a galaxy that contains sixteen unique planets. The single player game, with a complex and amusing storyline, challenges you and your clan to dominate the galaxy, fighting one clan at a time for domination of the planets. But it’s the online multiplayer play that has us most excited. Up to four clans can compete at a time. There are a host of multiplayer modes which include Rescue, Capture the Totem, Life Tag, Survival and King of the Hill to name but a few. And thrown in, as is customary in turn-based beast battling action games, is a terrain generator for near-infinite longevity. Add to that the hilarious and bang up-to-date graphic and we might just have a contender for the cartoon critter command mini-genre crown.
OK, so it’s not real animals fighting. But animals with guns? Duking it out? Add in the key phrase ‘turn based action strategy’ and it’s all beginning to sound like one of our favourite games of all time, Hogs of War on the PS2. In terms of turn based animal warfare it’s yet to be bettered. Imagine Worms 3D if it was good, and then add the voice of Rik Mayall.
Creature conflict, then, allows you to choose one of the four afore-mentioned clans, each headed by 1 ‘Boss’. With a selection of more than 30 weapons to choose from, the loopy lifeforms battle for supremacy over a galaxy that contains sixteen unique planets. The single player game, with a complex and amusing storyline, challenges you and your clan to dominate the galaxy, fighting one clan at a time for domination of the planets. But it’s the online multiplayer play that has us most excited. Up to four clans can compete at a time. There are a host of multiplayer modes which include Rescue, Capture the Totem, Life Tag, Survival and King of the Hill to name but a few. And thrown in, as is customary in turn-based beast battling action games, is a terrain generator for near-infinite longevity. Add to that the hilarious and bang up-to-date graphic and we might just have a contender for the cartoon critter command mini-genre crown.
