Combat Mission : Touch a PC strategy classic done justice on iOS

If like me you were totally phased by the lack of game and strategy in  Total War Battles - SEGA iOS app , and hanker for a real PC RTS classic that has been  enhanced by and not diminished by being released on a tablet then look no further than Combat Mission : Touch : 

This is from Battlefront.com themselves and is a simply spiffing display of how you can pack a real turn based WW2 strategy game with detail, vast battlefields and intense game play that has you caring for your band of Private Ryans or Shultzes ( Shultzen?) and an OUTSTANDING Full Metal Jacket Sergeant Hartman toned tutorial ... complete with requisite expletives ....and references to your ...

I love the replays, after the tense turn based placement of your units a real time battle ensues and you get to replay this from every angle , just like all those classic Ace Combat or Ridge Racer replays .... errh I mean just like Spielberg and Kaminski you are whizzing round the battlefield framing combat and replaying the action remaking your own version of  all those classic WW2 that influenced those two ... 

the retina display of the new iPad gives you a great sense of scale , you are are after all playing this game at a far higher res on a tablet than you first will have played the original PC release :On a a 2048 by 1536 display there is far more of the battlefield on display . 

before ........

and

after....

You are going to feel that artillery hitting your troops, then you are going to rewind and replay it from different angles before you brain kicks back in to gear and you order your troops to run ... or they start to run ...   troops are a hardy sort  lining up for battle and posing extremely well for my War game correspondent snaps ...( hit the power and home button) ...

 so a little of this is fine :

but too much and your troops start to loose morale and run.... away .. well it's not like Ripley is going to turn up and bust a co axle rescuing them now is it ....?

did I mention the tanks ....  

he shoots he scores....!

and now we bend it like Beckham ....

Talking about a game like this in such a trivial manner is doing it an injustice , for Combat Mission games are renowned for attention to detail and authenticity. That's what makes Combat Mission Touch such a departure from all the other RTS apps most of which are parodies, this is on the other hand is very real strategy as deep as the PC versions and with the added Retina resolution and touch features enhanced in many ways. 

It all comes together extremely well an example of an old classic enhanced by the developer using the tech we have now. There is also a great on line component  to the game, turn based on line RTS rocks as players of the old Xcom email game can tell you ( ask grand dad). 

On PC the Combat Mission series commands as much respect in the realm of strategy gaming as the Arma or Op Flashpoint series does in the military FPS genre. If you are a fan of WW2 strategy , check out the PC and iOS versions now.

And it is totally great to see a developer deliver a serious grown up version of their franchise as opposed to what Sega did with the Total War ios app , but give Creative Assembly a chance it usually takes them about a year to finally get code working so maybe .. we might have some real Total War some time soon ..maybe...

 

   

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