Real-time Strategy game fans, rejoice! Gameloft has released its Starcraft-clone, Starfront: Collision HD, onto the iPad.
As with the majority of Gameloft titles, Starfront: Collision HD uses Blizzard’s Starcraft titles as a heavy reference. The game has you playing as one of three factions: The Consortium, Wardens and Myriad. Each faction has their own strengths and weakness and will require players to hone their skill with each of them if they want to be successful. You’ll mine rare Xenodium crystals in order to build up to 8 different buildings and produce over 10 different units per faction to launch your attack against the enemy. There’s a total of 20 missions to be completed in the game’s campaign mode as well as a skirmish mode which allows you to take the fight to the game’s AI controlled opponents.
The iPad version of the game offers an overall better playing space thanks to the iPad’s additional screen size and the game’s interface has been tweaked to allow for comfortable playing on the iPad. Starfront: Collision HD didn’t need much tweaking in our opinion as it just being released on the iPad has gotten us all hot and bothered.
Starfront: Collision HD also allows for up to 4 player multiplayer matches, both local and online through Gameloft Live. The game features 5 different multiplayer maps, each of which corresponds to one of the five different environments in the game. Not only that, but you’ll also be able to show off your RTS skills to your friends and others online through the game’s leaderboards.
If you’re an RTS fan, or better yet, a fan of Blizzard’s Starcraft games, then you absolutely need to pick up this game as playing an RTS on a touchscreen mobile device like the iPad feels like a dreamed in comparison to using the traditional keyboard and mouse.
Starfront: Collision HD ($6.99) – [iTunes Link]
Starfront: Collision ($2.99) – [iTunes Link]
