GameSpy writes: "BattleForge is an original property from EA Phenomic, a game that combines real-time strategy with the insidiously addictive nature of collectible card gaming. The game is built around sucking the time and money right out of any players careless enough to get trapped into this ingenious scheme.
Instead of the traditional resource management that most strategy games employ, BattleForge is about capturing territory to accumulate power, which in turn is used to pay the casting costs for various cards. These cards can represent blocks of infantry units, larger, more powerful super-units, or game-changing spell effects. Every army is completely customizable, so it's your personal strategy (and the size of your card collection) that will determine the force that you'll control in the game. In any good collectible card game, a game can often be won before it even begins, with proper deck-building strategy. In BattleForge, the cards are just the tools, and you'll still need real-time strategy skills to use them to their fullest."
Spiffy:
-Melds card collecting with RTS
-Convenient in-game commerce system
-Solid multiplayer prospects
Iffy:
-May favor players with lots of money
-Could resort to nickle-and-dime tactics
Theshigen writes "Battleforge was a rather novel idea. It combined collectable card game mechanics with real-time strategy, something new and fresh back in 2009. It's been re-released today as Skylords Reborn. A fan-made project that's made the gamer, completely free."
1RBC: This has been a pretty exciting week for game news- this week, Sony announced that they'd be cutting off Playstation Now support for the Vita, PS3 and every other device that's not a PS4 or PC, some big announcements came out of Nintendo regarding DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as well as more details about Splatoon 2, and EA has handed over (partial) control of the card/strategy game BattleForge to their fans- all this and more on this week's episode of 1RBC Gaming Weekly.
iLLGaming.in's weekly roundup of Free-2-Play games, by F2P writer Ajay Verma.
