Commanders: Attack of Genos hits XBLA this week
Discs of Tron won't be the only Live Arcade game to hit in time for Valentines Day. This Wednesday, Feb 13 will see the release of Commanders: Attack of Genos, a turn-based tactical game similar to Advance Wars. Like Advance Wars, Commanders goes out of it's way to look friendly and accessible, sporting red and blue less-than-realistically modeled units, a grid-based system of movement, and tactical-turn-based gameplay. To add even more to the list of Advance Wars similarities, the game features "Commanders" who have "powers" both active and passive. Even with all these similarities to a DS game, Commanders manages to give great reasons to download, with everything from online play with a much more robust community, to the graphics and possibilities of future content.
Even the unit choices and relationships are similar to the Advance Wars games. There are a total of 16 units with everything from the most basic of infantry to things like tanks and artillery, with alien weapons possibly available (if the screens are to be believed). The unit movement and attack abilities are quite different from Advance Wars however, the actions that you can give your units are based on action points, which are taken away when a unit moves or attacks, allowing for the possibility of moving and attacking, which then opens up a whole new side of the game's turn-based formula. With the turn-based-strategy genre (almost) completely open on XBLA, Commanders looks poised to fill the niche and hopefully bring the genre to a new audience.
