![]() War Mongrels is an isometric real-time tactics game that takes place on the eastern front of World War II. The game first released for PC via Steam in October 2021. I'm just glad I can now play this game, and will likely see it through to be able to review it at some point in the near future.By William D'Angelo, posted on 25 April 2023 / 1,593 Viewsĭeveloper Destructive Creations announced the real-time strategy game, War Mongrels, is now available for the PlayStation 5 , Xbox Series X|S , PlayStation 4, and Xbox One for $39.99. The game reminds me of the old Commandos PC games, which I have a soft spot for. I haven't put a ton more time into the game, but the first mission was intriguing despite the bugs. ![]() There's an ability that lets you toss a shiny and noisy pocket watch that will lure in guards and I somehow found myself with two of them even though the game makes it clear that you can only carry and use one. I also seemed to find a way to duplicate one of my character's items. The indicator sometimes would lock to the nearest enemy instead of where you are queuing it up. One in particular I noticed was a UI glitch that could misrepresent how a distracting sound would travel (i.e. That said I don't think there is any world where someone learns the controls in this version of War Mongrels and thinks they feel good.Īs for any kind of gameplay kinks outside of visual and control issues, I encountered a couple of bugs that were less-than-ideal, but certainly not game-breaking. For a game that has so many different command types and inputs to control the camera, selecting characters, and more, I am kind of impressed there are ways to handle all of it using just touch. The controls seem to work as intended, though they are predictably clunky. War Mongrels also frequently checkpointed my progress during play so that if I failed a section (or presumably if the game did crash), I wouldn't lose much if any progress. There were occasionally screen tears or frame drops but the game was otherwise stable. During it, I was streaming the game natively on iOS and didn't feel any significant heat coming off of my device. I recorded my time being able to boot and play through the game's first mission and have shared it above, and if you are wondering if the game runs fine now: it totally does! Whether you want to play it or not is another question for another time, though.įrom a purely technical standpoint, I had no issues playing War Mongrels for this hour-long play session. Going in to last weekend though, that all changed when an update came through that finally allows anyone who paid the $40 for this game to play it on the compatible devices listed (i.e. The only thing I could do was view the production logos before the game hard crashed out to my home screen. And by significant I mean that when trying to play the game on my 3rd generation iPad Pro the game wouldn't even boot to the menu. The game came out three weeks ago and I immediately got a code for it, but the hold up on posting impressions was due to the fact that this mobile version had some significant issues running on the devices it says it is compatible on the App Store. ![]() ![]() This version is a straight port of the PC and console title, and-although it may not be a technical marvel on those platforms-bringing it over in an essentially unchanged state kind of is. As a result, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to get my hands on War Mongrels from Destructive Creations. I always get excited to see how certain developers push the envelope when it comes to gaming on iOS.
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