Whenever you have combat however you can either choose to resolve it automatically or get you to pilot one of the ships. The aim of the game is to find the enemy carrier and destroy it with your heavy fighters (but just like the King piece in Chess you apparently can't have your carrier and the enemy carrier in the same star system at any given time). In this mode you're introduced to a strategy game similar to Risk or Chess, where you have to explore a cluster of stars with your carrier and fighters, conquer and exploit resources from discovered planets, and then use those resources to build up your fleet. To me, this isn't what you really play Wing Commander Armada for, but it might be good as a distraction or a means to hone your piloting skills. you just fight successive waves of enemy fighters and try to survive as long as possible. Gauntlet mode is apparently very similar to Wing Commander: Academy, which in turn is similar to the simulators in the Wing Commander games. I'll discuss the single-player modes first. Wing Commander Armada comes with a variety of game-modes to choose from when someone boots it up. This is also helpful for the gamers who were born after these games were released as they may have heard about these classic games but always wondered if it was worth going back to check them out. Does the saying "give me gameplay over graphics any day" really ring true? Do some of these retro games still have the potential to entertain after so many years? Those are the kind of questions I want answered (and hopefully you do too). A lot of these games were classics in their heyday but I wanted to see how they stack up against modern titles. Oh and it might be a good time for me to remind my dear readers that when I review retro games I'm reviewing them by today's standards. This game is purely for those who want to play a chess version of Wing Commander or multiplayer. I haven't included a plot score for this game since even though it uses the Wing Commander universe as a backdrop there isn't really any plot whatsoever. It is still set in the Wing Commander universe though and it introduces quite a few firsts: (1) you're able to fly Kilrathi ships, (2) you're able to play a turn-based strategy version of Wing Commander and (3) you're able to play multiplayer with a mate.
Wing Commander Armada is probably one of the lesser known Wing Commander games as it's pretty much a spin-off the main Wing Commander series. It's been awhile since I've done a retro review, but trust me to pick another game set in the Wing Commander universe. Interestingly, I find Dralthis actually much easier to hit when compared to the reverse situation (i.e.
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