Stratega RTS Review
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.2
App Reviewed on: iPhone 4S
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Stratega is a streamlined, sci-fi, real-time strategy game that asks players to maintain spatial awareness. Players build webs of interconnected structures to form a base, with the ultimate goal of successfully warding off attacks and completing designated mission objectives. While the game's core concepts seem sound, it ultimately feels a bit dull and is hindered by poor controls.
As players progress through the first level or two, enemies are introduced to the game that players either have to fend off or, in some cases, destroy. This often requires building more elaborate bases, which consume energy, which quickly becomes another resource that must be managed.
Perhaps the most hectic parts of Stratega are actually when players do need to rely on timing, and the controls prevent them from doing what they want to do. Since every structure must be dragged onto the play field and must be connected to something else, trying to see where exactly something is being placed is really difficult (since there's a finger in the way). On top of this, the default view keeps each structure pretty small and the game doesn't feel as responsive as it should be when trying to input commands, even when using buttons like the pause menu.
In the end, Stratega seems competent on the surface but it just doesn't feel right in a bunch of ways. Some of the control issues I mentioned might be overcome when playing on an iPad, but that won't make the experience feel much more worth it. There are more interesting strategy games players could be checking out instead.