The spacebar is my best friend. The spacebar is my worst enemy. It tells me what I want to hear, but it lies. With a tap, I see a preview of the fight to come: the bullets that spray from my guns a micro-second before the enemy turns to see me. Spacebar, do you speak truth this time?Of course not. That beautiful play, that tactician's dream, the spacebar's best-guess preview of what the next phase in the turn-based strategy game Frozen Synapse might hold - it's not real.It doesn't account for the shotgun-wielding enemy who crept around my flank. It didn't predict that the machine-gunner I was so sure would stray into my path would instead retreat into cover.
It certainly didn't see that rocket fired from the other side of the screen into the wall behind my last sniper. Spacebar, I need you - but I cannot trust you.The team-versus-team combat of X-COM and its various clones is the clearest reference point for Frozen Synapse's turn-by-turn gunplay. But while some of the core mechanics behind this neon-hued top-down strategy-shooter might be familiar, the resulting experience is not.Plotting out your orders is not a matter of deciding them and enacting them.
It's a matter of agonising over them, watching the spacebar's prediction of what your intended moves might result in again and again, and praying to whatever dark and bloodthirsty gods you think might help that the enemy's soldiers will go where you you're so damned sure they will.Rockets: oh so deadly, but oh so slow. Commit' is such a beautiful name for an End Turn button. Press it with trembling hand, for there's no backing down afterwards. Watching the Outcome of a turn is up there with staring at the flickering television in a bookie's office, ticket clenched into your sweaty paw as you pound imagined psychic energy into the horse you've bet everything on. It must go as planned.Despite being a turn-based game, Frozen Synapse can be over within single-digit minutes.
The wrong move and the worst luck can see your small squad of green or red men annihilated by the opposing team, and then that's that. It's not a drawn-out experience, but a micro-round of tactical betting: plotting your moves while second guessing your opponent's.Said opponent can be AI, either as part of a quickie skirmish or in a surprisingly fleshed-out single-player campaign, or another human. The latter obviously offers the most emotional engagement: the sharp and giddy thrill of beating someone real, and just as invested in the faceless-off as you.
Includes two copies of Frozen Synapse. Feel free to send the extra copy of the game to a friend. Frozen Synapse is the ultimate tactical game on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad: classic gameplay with a modern interface. Frozen Synapse is the ultimate tactical game bringing the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad: classic gameplay with a.
In its remote matching and turn-by-turn taking of chances, Frozen Synapse bears some resemblance to online poker. Only, of course, the stakes are death (and if that isn't the name of a Steven Segal movie, it should be).In single-player, yellow means friendly but moronic. These guys won't make it without you.You don't have much to play with, and neither does the other guy: just a few units, each holding either a machine gun, shotgun, sniper rifle, grenade launcher or rocket launcher. Each turn, you'll tell these chaps where to go and where to aim, via an interface that arguably looks more complicated than it is.
Double-click to move, drag a target symbol to aim - there's a little more fine-grain control if you need it, but really you don't. You need faith and you need balls. Meantime, your opponent's doing the same - it's a game of guns, but you're trying to outthink and outwit your opponents, not out-aim them. And if you're the one who gets outwitted, perhaps you'll fare better in the second, third, fourth, fifth, whatever game you're simultaneously playing against someone else.
Enter a bleak cyberpunk future where a small resistance struggles against an oppressive regime with the freedom of humankind at stake. You're a commander who has to issue orders to his soldiers in order to claim victory over the enemy. Battles move fast, but you'll experience them a few seconds at a time.
Plan your moves carefully, give your orders, and watch how things play out. The enemy will also be making its moves, so you'll have to consider every possibility to keep your people safe.Play through a challenging campaign where the AI will dog your every step. Can you lead the resistance to victory against seemingly insurmountable odds? Looking for a little less commitment? Try out the Instant Skirmish mode to jump right into the action.
Of course, the real challenge comes from taking on a human opponent. Play online with cross-platform multiplayer or in hotseat mode and see whose tactics reign supreme. With countless map variations, you'll find fresh challenges to test your strategies around every corner. Prove you have the superior synapses!Think Carefully: You have all the time in the world to plan the actions of your soldiers, but once the turn starts you can only watch things play out.Guide Every Move: It's up to you to decide where each soldier goes, how fast they move, and how they react to any enemies they see. You even control how they stand and which way they're looking. Total control, total responsibility.A Challenging Campaign: Assume the role of a resistance commander and battle against an oppressive government regime.
Strike a blow for freedom!Multiplayer Battles: Go online and test your wits against another human, or challenge a friend on one device with the hotseat mode. Who is the superior commander?Fight in Style: Stylish minimalistic visuals are backed by a pulse-pounding soundtrack that will put you in the mood for some serious tactical action!.Frozen Synapse - GameClub is playable for free, with some sections and features available only to subscribers of GameClub Pro, an optional auto-renewing monthly subscription which also removes ads. Besides the GameClub Pro subscription, there are no other in-app purchases in this game.If you choose to purchase the optional subscription:- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Nzam7, Best tactical game on the ipad!I've had my ipad for some time now and have always enjoyed gaming on it.
This is the first title though that's come along on the device, grab my attention and not let go! It is incredibly competitive and the complexity of the tactics require you to think out every command and will mean the difference between an incredibly satisfying victory or horrendous defeat. I've read numerous reviews about how the learning curve is too steep for new players.
This is not true at all. I'm new but am near the top of the leader boards. You just have to like tactical games! I have noticed a few drastically negative reviews, one in particular calling the gameplay obtuse, and found a need to respond. Anyone who could describe this game in such a manner obviously couldn't be bothered with learning its depth.
Everyone has a right to there own opinion of course but I would venture to call such a comment blatantly arrogant when so many others applaud the game's tactical complexity.UPDATE:Love the hi-res graphics! Unfortunately not everything has made the transition. Hopefully that is coming!