For example, while I am able to choose which approaching enemy I’d prefer my sniper to shoot at, he seemed to decide “nope, I don’t like this guy”. In some cases, repositioning your little guys is necessary as loot crates drop from the unseen sky, helping you or hurting any enemies on the map.Īnother annoyance I faced is the targeting system. The downside is that this doesn’t always work, depending on the enemy’s weapons. The benefit of this is that you can often move them before enemy fire hits them. Unlike your typical tower defense games, most of your cubemen are movable at any time, and will continue to fire while moving around whilst the enemy is in range. Of course, strategy must be balanced with a good kill ratio – killing enemy units earns you more cubes, which you use to purchase more cubemen to make your army. Being able to choose from 9 varieties of overprotective armed dudes, your job is to strategically place them around the map in order to stop waves of enemies from reaching your base. Just like its predecessor, Cubemen 2 allows the player to control, well, cubemen, who are armed with various weapons from the standard pistol, to a flamethrower, mortar, and laser snipers.
Following Cubemen, released just over a year ago, Cubemen 2 brings in some updates while keeping the base game more or less the same.
Cubemen 2 rotate bot camera series#
Cubemen is a tower defense style strategy game series where you get to control faceless armed cubemen against waves of enemies, potentially sending them to their death. The scheme works most of the time, but it’s easy to become flustered when the action picks up.If you ever wanted to see what happens when playing with Lego gets violent, then perhaps the Cubemen series is the closest you’ll get. Secondly, the action can be very hectic, and because your screen is so small, the stylus control is imprecise without constant zooming in and out. This game is going to be much more fun as a multiplayer experience, so player availability is a concern.
When the game launched, I was able to find players to join me (the same player kept stopping in), but by the end of the weekend, the available number of online players was very low. So if the game is endlessly configurable, and mostly plays just fine, what’s the problem? Well, for one, the online community is a bit sparse. After awhile, though, your wrists might get tired of supporting the GamePad with one hand (see also: Kid Icarus Uprising), and resting the GamePad on your knee is tricky because of the placement of the shoulder buttons. The controls make the grade, with the stylus used to manipulate units on screen and rotate the camera in conjunction with the analog stick and shoulder buttons. If you’re a fan of the genre, there’s something for you in Cubemen 2.There are two small “campaigns†(really just pre-defined sets of 15 stages each) and unlimited ways to play single games, either online or off.
In addition, the game allows you to create and share your own levels, play online with players on other platforms (iOS, for example), and reskin the visuals in dozens of different ways. The game offers nearly every flavor of RTS available in both single and online multiplayer fashion. It’s immediately easy to be impressed with the breadth of options in Cubemen 2. Although it might best be described as a tower defense game, being able to control individual units, as well as modes such as King of the Hill and Territory, make this a fleshed out real-time strategy experience. This would be a mistake Cubemen 2 is one of the best Wii U-exclusive eShop games. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if most gamers skip over it without a second glance. The cover art in the Wii U eShop doesn’t really say much about the game. Cubemen 2 is not a particularly self-descriptive game.
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