Anomaly Warzone Earth takes place in the future, when the world has been invaded by alien forces, bubbling off pieces of major cities and taking the area over for their own purposes. That's not to say that the game isn't challenging, as you'll often find yourself in some pretty intense situations that require quick thinking, rerouting, and item use, as well as some more long-term focuses like unit upgrades. The game's mechanics, which require you to map out your path and adjust it on the fly all while controlling your own commander avatar to gather power-ups and perform decoy tasks, feel immediately comfortable on the Xbox 360's controller, and never overwhelming. Fortunately, Anomaly Warzone Earth's gameplay bucks this trend and feels quite comfortable.Īnomaly boasts a surprising amount of action and intensity for a strategy game. Most strategy games aren't created with controllers in mind, and feel quite unwieldy as a result. One of the biggest obstacles that strategy games face when being ported to a console is the control scheme. You have no means of attacking when using the commander, but can be used to gather power-ups strewn throughout the map and draw fire from enemy towers. The commander is the one unit that you can navigate through the map and his role is one of support for your other units than to attack your enemy buildings. In Anomaly, you don't have direct control of your units, save one. At the end of each mission, you're ranked on how well you did, earning gold medals for completing goals quickly and efficiently.

You'll constantly be juggling various power-ups like health, smoke screens, decoys, and even area-leveling bombs while switching up your path on the fly to avoid attacks and bottlenecks. While you may be mostly taking on stationary units, the action in Anomaly Warzone Earth is pretty intense.

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