{"id":113,"date":"2007-06-20T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/band-of-bugs-review\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T21:06:00","slug":"band-of-bugs-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/band-of-bugs-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Band of Bugs Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/i.i.com.com\/cnet.g2\/images\/2007\/172\/reviews\/938058_20070622_screen007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.i.com.com\/cnet.g2\/images\/2007\/172\/reviews\/938058_20070622_screen007.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Band of Bugs game out today and so far I&#8217;m really liking it. It is a turn based strategy game where your army consists of bugs.  It reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andymerrill.com\/rantreview\/2007\/05\/tactics-100-review.html\">Tactics 100<\/a> which I reviewed a while back in that you want to position your bugs in the best position to attack your opponents without putting yourself into a position to be attacked.<\/p>\n<p>The tutorial is a bit slow to go through, but once you&#8217;re through the tutorial the gameplay speed picks up as you get into the main story line.  In addition to the main story there is also a scenario and multiplayer modes.  The scenario modes are stand alone levels that give you a specific objective.  Multiplayer is what you&#8217;d mostly expect where you can fight against 3 other players in elimination and king of the hill type battles.  The multiplayer modes also include some mission mode and an &#8216;Escape&#8217; mode that is fairly unique.  In &#8216;Escape&#8221; you have to get your army to a certain point on the map and keep the enemy armies from getting there.  In addition to these modes there is a &#8220;Spider Hunt&#8221; mode that allows for 8 player at once.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best features on Band of Bugs is the included map editor.  The editor can be used for single player skirmish games or over Xbox Live.  I&#8217;m really excited to make some interesting maps and see how they fair over Live.<\/p>\n<p>I realize this is a quick little review, but really I don&#8217;t have anything bad to say.  The game is fun to play and provides some great strategic challenges without making it hard to get into.  If you&#8217;re into strategy games this is one worth checking out.  Even at $10 I think this game is a good value because with the map editor there is tons of replay value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Band of Bugs game out today and so far I&#8217;m really liking it. It is a turn based strategy game where your army consists of bugs. It reminds me of Tactics 100 which I reviewed a while back in that you want to position your bugs in the best position to attack your opponents without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[7,5,30],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","category-xbox-live-arcade","tag-review","tag-video-game","tag-xbla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}