Swarm Arena – Review

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Very enjoyable. Especially if you are bored and looking for some quick casual fun.  Swarm Arena has 3 different game-modes; “Score Challenge”, “Battle Game” and “Sandbox”. But Sandbox isn’t really a game-mode, just a field where you can test out the different power ups and see how many drones your computer can handle.

Score Challenge is a game-mode that starts out very (very) slow-paced and also has an easy difficulty at first. It takes some time to pick up speed and gets more and more interesting over time. When you are about 5 minutes in the difficulty increases a lot. You get more opponents simultaneously and they have more drones (drones are the green/orange/purple/etc. little flares. In the later stage’s of Score Challenge the enemies get shields and other power-ups! Score Challenge also features an Online Leaderboard.

Battle Game is where you can face-off against A.I. or other players in 1-on-1 combat. This is very fun and fast-paced, though I even played against the A.I.’s it was still pretty awesome! Battling other players would be very cool. An interesting thing to note is that one of the A.I.’s, called Pandora, can be trained by fighting her. She will learn from her mistakes and keep getting better.

Overall it’s a very nice game. I would recommend setting the controls to “Mouse” instead of keyboard to heighten the pace of the game a bit! Drawbacks are that it gets repetitive very quick because there are only 3-4 types of opponents and only 2 different power-ups. Still, very pretty and polished game!

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