Boom Beach

Title: Boom Beach
Platform: PC, Mac, Android, Apple
Developer(s): Supercell
Release Date: 2008
Genre(s): Strategy, conquest, app
Online/Single player: Online
Rating: 4/5

Info

Boom beach is a game developed by Supercell. It is similar to their previous game Clash of Clans, but still differs quite a bit.

Campaign

In the campaign you have to defeat the evil general Hammerman, who has amassed armies to conquer the world. The Blackguards, they're called. You start off in a small piece of the world, and as you defeat Hammerman's armies, you need to upgrade your radar in order to move further into the world.

Multiplayer

Among the Blackguard, there are also players in the same campaign that you need to defeat. They are a lot stronger than the Blackguard, but defeating them gives you huge rewards.

Units

There are a lot of types of units, like sharpshooters, zookas, tanks, medics etc etc.

Different units have different perks. The sharpshooter is weak, but he can be delivered in huge numbers. Zookas have great damage, but their health is really crappy. Tanks have great damage and health, but they take huge population, and can only be deployed a few at a time.

Different enemies calls for different strategies. If you're up against a lot of sniper turrets, then a good combination is to send in zookas and heavies. Heavies absorb the damage, and zooka deals them.

Dr. Terror

Almost every day an evil doctor named Dr. Terror appears on the map. His technology allows his weapons to duplicate, making him stronger every time you defeat him. If you manage to beat his ten levels though, you win. He will still appear again even after you've defeated him.

Defeating Dr. Terror gives you a lot of resources.

Hammerman Attacks

Hammerman Attacks is an event that happens when you reach a certain point in the game. When this happens, Hammerman attacks your home base with an enormous fleet that is indeed VERY powerful. He is very tough to beat, and you only get three chances to defend against him.

Statues

Statues gives you boosts. They are presented as life statues, which improves production, ice statues, which improves buildings, magma statues, which increase the efficiency of your troops, and dark statues, which can give Boat Energy or increases chance to find power dust. They can also be built with three different types. Idol is weakest, Guardian is balanced and Masterpiece is strongest.

A Life Idol can for example give you a 4% production increase, but a guardian can give you 11%. It varies though, and you may get different percentages even though they're the same type.

Statues are built with crystals that you can either earn or gain from defeating enemies.

Home base

Your home base is the center of everything. Here you can train units, build and improve production and defensive buildings, and upgrade your army from the Armory. When a player attacks and successfully destroys your home base, you lose a lot of resources. Therefore its important to always keep a good defense. 

Resource bases

Resource bases are basically colonies. When you conquer a resource base, it will ship resources to your base, depending on how high leveled it is. Every time either you or an opponent takes a resource base, the defenses on that island is improved. There is however no way to either build or improve buildings there otherwise.

Cast & Conquer

Title: Cast & Conquer
Platform: Android, IOS
Developer(s): R2Games
Release Date: April, 2015
Genre(s): Card, Strategy
Online/Single player: Online
Rating: 4,5/5

Overview

R2Games did it again. They made another successful game. This time, a game that takes elements from both the MMO and RPG genre, and then made it into one of the best card games i have ever played. Not that i have played many card games in the first place, but that is because none of them seems to interest me. Cast & Conquer is different though, in some way i cant quite explain with words. Its just something about this game that makes me want to play it everyday. 

Gameplay

You start with a tutorial that teaches you the basics of the game, before you enter the real world where you can chat with other people, add them as friends and all those lovely things we just love about MMO games. In the tutorial you will be introduced to some funky starting cards that you can use in your deck. Your deck can only have 10 cards in it, but this expands as you level up. What i love is that you have to think strategy to actually get anywhere in this game. Filling your deck with random cards that you have no idea what does will not do. You have to read through the cards, maybe a several times to actually understand what they do, and when or where they can be smart to use. The cards have different jobs. Some of them are medics, used purely for healing. Some are tanks. These should be put in the front row of your army, etc etc. But what is most important to understand, is the round count of the cards. Some cards takes 3 rounds to spawn, while some only needs 1. The ones with 3 would be the ones that are more useful, but that doesnt mean you can just spam your deck with those cards, because then you wouldnt be able to spawn any cards before the third round. What is simply beautiful feature to the game is that you can evolve your cards, which means you can turn them into 3 star cards instead of 2 star. To do this, you will need experience, and no Im not talking about experience points you use to level up, Im talking about experience points you get from disolving other, rather useless cards. This is awesome because it opens another cool function to the game. Grinding. You would have to grind some useless cards, and then turn them into evolved cards before you can get further in the campaign. So you will actually have to retry some levels before you complete another chapter. This is cool because then it makes it tougher to complete every single chapter. 

Blacksmith

The blacksmith is very useful, because that is the place where you enchant your gear. To do this you will have to spend some enchant stones, which can be obtained from quests and chapters. If you are too lazy to get them from those two, you can always buy them for Garnets. 

Enchant stones give you higher chance of successfully enchant an item. This is why they are so useful. 

Another useful thing you can do in the blacksmith is crafting new gear. You can for example craft 2 level 1 swords into 1 level 2 sword. 

Alchemy

This is where you can dissolve and evolve your cards. Very important for late game.

Arena

Arena is probably the feature i like the most, and is a must for online games like Cast & Conquer. It opens the opportunity to beat the crap out of the other players on the server. When beating someone, you gain Honor points, which is Cast & Conquer´s way of saying, "bitch i have more Honor points than you, means im better than you". 

Conclusion

Cast & Conquer is a very basic game. But, it has all the features a online game should have. They made it so it is actually hard to complete the game, and they added some fun stuff to do while waiting for your stupid stamina to spawn. The fact that there is over 1000 cards to obtain, and over 200 campaign levels to complete makes this game very interesting to play. 

Pros:
- Classes, like Priest, Sorcerer, Range, and Warrior. Each of them comes with different "Ability" cards.
- So many chapters and cards.
- Cool live action battles. You dont just spawn your cards and imagine a dragon appear on your screen.

Cons:
- You have to pay to fully enjoy the game.

NOTE: I am not fully completed with this game review yet. There is still a lot of features i havent been able to try yet due to lack of levels, resources and such. This is just a review of my personal experience of the game so far. 

ZunderFury

Title: ZunderFury
Platform: Flash (PC, Mac)
Developer(s): Doogog
Release Date: 2008
Genre(s): Shooter, Action
Online/Single player: Offline
Rating: 3

ZunderFury is a Fast paced arena shooter game with tons of different enemies. 

Gameplay:

When you click play you can choose between two different ships. "Zunder" and "Fury". The difference between them is the weapon. Doesn't really matter who you choose, both of them are awesome. When you click your ship, you will be sent to the game. The game contains of lots of different waves. Starting on wave 1 you have nothing but a weapon that shoots 1 bullet at a time. Use WASD on the keyboard to control your ship, and Left mouse click to turn on your auto-fired machine gun of death. You can click once more to stop the gun from shooting, if you feel in the mod to get ripped apart. When you have finished off the enemies from wave 1 you will be sent to another screen where you can upgrade your stuff. For example if you wanted to upgrade your weapon, it would now shoot 2 bullets, instead of 1. Pretty basic, right? So, this is basically the game. You go through waves and waves until you die, and have to start over again. Before you start over again, make sure to submit your sexy score, so that other people can see how good you are. 

Upgrades:

Weapon: Makes your gun shoot more bullets. 
Life: Buy more life. 
Speed: Increases your speed.
Bomb: Well.. I guess you can have bombs as well. 

Play the game


Fun fact: If you explode, it means you are dead. 

Cloudstone

Title: Cloudstone
Platform: Flash (PC, Mac)
Developer(s): Playsaurus, Doogog, Fragsworth
Release Date: 2012
Genre(s): RPG, MMO, Adventure
Online/Single player: Online
Rating: 4/5

Info

Cloudstone is a massive multiplayer online game created by Playsaurus, Doogog and Fragsworth. The play style is much like any other Facebook game. You can for example add friends who can help you solve problems and you have a energy bar. What more could you want. 

Gameplay

You play as a customizable character who you can edit in the beginning of your adventure. You can make your character look like an anime based character with big eyes and even a cat face. No seriously. Or you can make your character look like something more evil. Like a pig, I dont know. However, it doesnt really matter how you create your character, the point is that it is epic. You start off with a tutorial that will teach you the basics off the game. After you have done the tutorial you do the typical quests, going on adventures, much like any other MMORPG out there. You can level up your character by gaining experience points from killing monsters or completing quests. Once you level up, you get 1 Skill point. This happens every time you level up. You can use your skill points in your skill book, where you choose between using it on "Warrior", "Sorcerer" or "Monk". Thats right. This game has Monks. Each of the roles have different advantages in the game. For Example, the Warrior can take any damage without getting hurt. The Sorcerer, like in any other games shoots magic, which makes it possible to kill monsters from a distance, thus she has no armor and can therefor easily die. The Monk has healing abilities and can therefor stay alive for quite some time. All of these three roles are good in each their ways. What is important to notice is that you can reset your skill points anytime you want, so if you feel like the Monk class didnt fit your play style, go ahead and use it on any of the other roles. You can even spread out your points and use them on every role. Imagine a Warrior with healing spells and sorcerers spells, sexy right? 

You can also join guilds, play against other players in the PVP arena and do daily events. You can even create your own home. 

Shop

The shop has a big variety of different weapons for the Monk, Warrior and Sorcerer. I was surprised that there are so few items that you have to buy for actual money. Finally a game where its not only about those Gems that costs like 50 bucks each. 

Roles

Monk:
The monk is a close combat type.
Has Healing abilities
"Dicipline" makes the monk stronger. So when you are in the shop, make sure to buy the items with dicipline gains on it. 

Warrior:
Warrior is a close combat type.
Has many strong abilities.
Can use shield.
"Rage" Makes the warrior stronger

Sorcerer: 
Ranged combat type.
Has many cool mage abilities.
"Sorcerer points" makes the Sorcerer stronger. Logic right there.

Overall i think this game is quite unique, and i liked it a lot. 
I rate it 8/8.