Real-time strategy games are undergoing an identity crisis. Following a slew of inventive titles, the genre has been subject to stagnation. Efforts to kick start strategy games have ranged from retooling the basic mechanics of the genre to porting titles to consoles. Last year's lauded World in Conflict proves the former to be more effective, especially given poor sales and critical panning of console ports. Battleforge follows in the spirit of that very cause, revisiting the genre's fundamentals with an innovative twist to its gameplay. Focusing on multiplayer and a wild new card-based battle system distinguishes it as one of the few real-time strategy games risking innovation.
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.
