Immunition: Game of Cells review: Battleship with a biological twist
What would happen if microrganisms in the human body were pitted against each other in a battle of strategy? Immunition: Game of Cells, that’s what.
This mobile strategy game by Skillshot Labs is basically Battleship with a touch of biology. For those who are not familiar with Battleship, it’s a game where two players place ships on a grid with coordinates. The players take turns in naming coordinates until they successfully hit and eventually sink the other’s battleship.
The same applies in Immunition: Game of Cells except you put microorganisms and fight in the different parts of the body—the brain, throat, heart, lungs, and stomach. Each body part has a “map” shaped accordingly. After the players can select and place their units on the hexagonal slots on the map, they then take turns to blow up each other’s microorganisms.
So how does it differ from Battleship? First, the game has four different “races”—white blood cell, bacteria, virus, and protozoa—each with its own units and specialties that affect both attack and defense. Your unit combination determines your health points, which is also equal to the number of attacks you can dish out per turn. So as your health points decrease, the number of times you can attack also decreases. This gives a nice twist to the classic Battleship game mechanics because now you can choose a race based on your playstyle.
Aside from the tactical game mechanic, Immunition: Game of Cells has very clean and crisp graphics. The sci-fi theme was quite impressively done to give off that “military strategy” vibe. The audio is also low and dead serious, which is sometimes funny to me because I can’t begin to imagine how serious these microorganisms really are in tearing each other apart, complete with commando gear.
If there’s any complaint I have with Immunition: Game of Cells, it’s the tutorial. I spent a good while figuring out what was going on. For a strategy game, it is important that the players are properly told how the game is played. Although you can revisit the tutorial via the help section, not everyone is patient enough to have to redo something that should’ve been made clear the first time.
Immunition: Game of Cells is an impressive strategy game. The gameplay is simple, letting the mechanics provide the challenge. Difficulty-wise, of course, it won’t give you as much of a challenge as Dota 2, but then again, it isn’t meant to be that challenging after all. The game currently supports single player versus AI, two player pass-and-play mode, and will soon add local multiplayer.
Immunition: Game of Cells is free to download for Android here.
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