Over There

This weekend I finally broke my Xbox Arcade cherry with Signal Studios TOY SOLDIERS. I do not regret this decision as it was well worth is 1200 points cost (roughly $15). This game is extermly fun not just from my gamer part but from my history lover part as well. The game puts you in the role of a Commander of British or German forces on the Western front of the war and has you protecting your Toy Box (base) from invading forces.




The game has you pick from a variety of units to defend your base, staring with machine guns and barb wire, and going to mortars,gas and flamethrowers, artillery and anti-air. You gain money from kills or destruction of enemy property. You can use your money to buy more defenses and upgrade your current defenses. The upgrades make your defenses more powerful and changing them such as making a Maxium machine gun into a anti-vehicle weapon, all of which are historical accurate. As well as defense units you can use tanks to bring the fight to the enemy.



The enemy also has a variety of things to throw at you. Each side has essentially has the same defending and offense units (expect tanks for some reason) but are side and historical accurate. The offensive units that the enemy uses ranges from simple troops which in WWI fashion just run over the top and towards your base, these can be easily be cut down with Gas/Flamethrower or machine guns, though in large numbers 20+,they can overwhelm and many can get through if your base is not properly managed. Next in offensive is Calvary which like infantry can overwhelm your defensive, then armored cars which can be dispatched easily with artillery or mortars which can take care of tanks as well. Lastly airplanes (fighter,bombers, and for some reason helicopters) can only be taken out via anti-air.



Mixing RTS elements with tower defense elements and putting this game into a WORLD WAR I setting this game makes an interesting part of my collection and I hope that they continue with this and make a American and Russian campaign DLC with maybe like 6 mission's each or so. Maybe they might even go into a WORLD WAR II setting as well.

http://www.signalstudios.net/toysoldiers/