Gundam Conquest Review: Gundams in the palm of your hand
Ever wanted access to your own pocket-sized Gundam? Good news: Sega released Gundam Conquest for iOS and Android devices on Tuesday. The game plays a lot like Kingdom Conquest and allows you to both fight with your mobile suit and build your base. The game is quite complex, and at times confusing to play, but is definitely worth picking up for any Gundam fan.
From the beginning, you will have to choose between one of four different popular factions from the Gundam universe. After you’ve selected, you will be thrown into a lengthy tutorial that will run you through everything you need to know about the game. Pay close attention to everything you do, because once the tutorial is over you will be thrown to the wolves and expected to know how to do everything.
Gundam Conquest in three parts
The game is split into three parts: online battles, building space colonies, and RPG-like simulations, all of which are essential to progressing through the game. But the vast majority of the time, players are going to want to focus on the online battles.
Gundam Conquest’s online battles allow you to zoom around in your mobile suit of choice, shooting and slashing through opponents. The game does allow you to customize your suit, but your basic unit will have a sword, gun, powered up melee weapon, grenades, and a shield. The more you play, the more your suit will level up, get upgrades, and become an all-around better fighting unit.
The RPG-like simulations are where the war/story will progress. However, before you make any sort of progress in the war, you are going to have to unlock different achievements in other parts of the game. This forces players to pursue all the different parts of Gundam Conquest, but at the same time it restricts how much of the story the casual gamers are going to actually see.
At your base, you are able to build a space colony where you spend your resources to build factories, houses, and all the conveniences your colony could ever want. This part of the game offers a lot of diversity to Gundam Conquest and is a great break from the battles.
Oh that Gundam goodness!
All three of these aspects of Gundam Conquest are fun in their own ways, but the battles are where the game truly shines. The computer’s AI is fantastic and even the early missions do a great job of challenging the players. The missions are set up nicely for teams of four to go against each other, and the game does a nice job of managing the levels of the players so that everyone is equally matched. On top of all of that, the battles run smoothly with zero lag and very little wait time. Could not have been more pleased with my time on Gundam Conquest.
Seeing as this is a free game, you do have limited plays to worry about. That being said, Sega does a fairly good job with giving you plenty of plays throughout the day which allows you can enjoy the game without having to put any money into it.
Maybe spread that tutorial out a bit?
My only real complaint about the game is that it can be very confusing at times. The tutorial is set up to go through everything right from the beginning and the game does not do a great job of helping you if you get lost. After getting through the tutorial, I found myself staring at the screen and asking myself, “Ok…what do I do now?” With enough play time, guesswork, and reading, you should be able to figure everything out though.
If you can handle all the Japanese be sure to pick up a copy of Gundam Conquest at the Apple Store or on Google Play.
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