If you thought that such games as real-time strategy games have already passed into the category of retro, you are very mistaken. The experts at Ironhide Games have created a whimsical symbiosis of a strategy and Tower Defense game. The result is Iron Marines, a very original product, but with its own characteristics, which will not appeal to all players.

Right away about the shortcomings of Iron Marines.

Not only that the game is paid, so you can buy only the basic component on Google Play. And the heroes and a lot of other game artefacts will then have to buy in-game shop. It is impossible not to admit that for some gamers such rules – reason not to look towards the game at all.

If you do decide to play, you need to buy the main character, around which the detachment will be formed. The upside: the main playable hero is unkillable. The negative side of the game is that too much is offered for money. In particular, for extra pay you can get a solid advantage during battles right up to bombing enemy positions and even a missile strike on them from some military orbital station.

Strictly speaking, in Iron marines the developers, one of whose most famous brainchild – Kingdom Rush – a cult game in the Tower Defense genre, used their top-end developments, greatly improving many of them and giving the towers legs. The player has a choice of three units: infantry, alien allies, and mechanics. Each of these varieties has characters with different functions: some are responsible for close combat, others for defeating the enemy at a distance, and others for support. In particular, infantry are divided into rangers, snipers and engineers; aliens into guards, mediums and diplomats; and mechs into flamethrowers, rocket launchers and melee fighters.

Game mechanics

A very interesting feature of the game Iron marines – available to the player to produce a kind of “castling” characters. That is, a sniper at any time can make a ranger, a diplomat – a guard, and flamethrower – flamethrower.

Most of the playing time, as it should be in the strategy, the player will be engaged in arrangement of their own base: the development of infrastructure, mining and accumulation of resources, the organization of defense. The main resource in this game is a certain substance Ethereum. Without its extraction and accumulation of game progress is impossible. Another peculiarity of Iron Marines game is that it is full of references to famous games and movies.   These include: “Fringe of the Future”, “Star Wars”, “Doctor Who”, “Enterprise”.

Moreover, the developers took care that the presence of familiar attributes and characters did not become a reason to accuse them of being secondary. The game is original, with its own world, interesting scenario and colorful characters.

The player has a number of different missions to complete on three planets. These are both combat missions and very interesting quests. Missions are divided into main and side missions. The latter are very important for character progression, without which it’s simply unrealistic to break through to the next level.

Some gamers think that side missions are unnecessary and blame the developers for it. But the part of gamers’ fans on the contrary think that these additional missions make the process more interesting.

In addition, fans also praise the game’s graphic design and speak positively about the gameplay. The soundtrack, on the other hand, is not to their liking.