Game:

Infinium Strike (2016)

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Steam store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/374050
My Steam review: http://steamcommunity.com/id/thugnificent/recommended/374050
Infinium Strike is a space tower defense game. It’s not your typical tower defense game as it’s based in space and you have this huge ship which you must defend against the Wrogs. You can setup turrets on your ship and have several other things like drone ships which help you defend against the Wrogs.

Graphics:

The graphics are pretty average, it’s a space based strategy/tower defense game so you should expect boring dark visuals. While the backgrounds and effects look nice the ship itself looks horrible. The graphics menu has many options so you can lower the graphics if you don’t have a powerful GPU. There’s not a problem in performance of the game as I played on extreme detailed options without any problems with over 100 FPS all the time.
Sound:

The music in this game is great though. From the moment you launch the game and you hear that epic battle almost Star Wars like music, you get hooked. The narration is also pretty nice though it seemed sometimes that the narrator was bored.

Gameplay:

You have this huge ship called the Freedom Strike. You can place turrets on it and send out drones to attack the incoming enemy. The enemy will attack from all 4 sides and you have the ability to add turrets on all 4 quadrants of your ship. You also have a strategic view which shows a top down blurpeint of your ship and where the enemies are. This is super useful as a lot of enemies can be attacking you at a time and this helps you figure out which quadrant you should focus on. The main currency of the game which you use to purchase towers and upgrade them is called Infinium. When you kill enemies they will drop Infinium which your ship automatically collects.

The enemies and turrets are sort of like rock paper scissors. One turret kills one range of enemy ship but cannot kill others. Certain turrets can destroy projectiles while special types of turrets are required to kill the bigger ships in range 3. So you have to figure out which turret is best for which enemy range. You can upgrade turrets as well and as expected every level of upgrade costs more than previous. New turrets get unlocked when you upgrade Freedom Strike. Turrets like rail gun, super pulse rifle etc. Upgrading the Freedom Strike gives armor/shield bonuses as well as new turrets are unlocked for purchasing.

You can also deploy drone machines called TSF fleet. These come in different varieties too, one of these turrets kills the furthest and biggest enemy ships, while the other kills normal enemies which are closer. The last of these targets enemy projectiles only. These TSF fleets can be upgraded which costs points. To spawn new drones, you also need these points. These points charge overtime.

There are also the TSF supertech bonuses. These give you extra help with your missions and include things like the super salvage which doubles the rate at which infinium is collected, or the super shield which insta-charges your shields. These have a cool down and cannot be used unless the cool down period has expired. There are other things as well like the Sentry Sattelite which deploys a stationary satellite which shoots at the enemies in a certain range.

Graphics: 7/10
Sound: 8/10
Gameplay: 5/10
Overall: 6/10

Conclusion:

It’s a tower defense with a little bit of strategy games elements. I wasn’t impressed with the gameplay mechanics. The point that the turrets only kill enemies in a certain range is not that good. Enemies could be in range one and your super awesome pulse rifle cannot do anything about it and will only shoot at range 3 enemies. The game can also be pretty hectic in managing all 4 quadrants where you have to focus on stopping enemy projectiles, keeping a watch on your shield and armor, deploy the correct turrets for what the wave of enemies is, upgrading turrets, spawning the correct TSF Fleet drones etc. It seems more like a chore than gameplay. So buy it only if you really love space strategy games or the game is on sale.

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