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hey guys so today I'm here with a review of star front collision for the iPhone and iPod Touch so this is the latest game from Gameloft it is an RTS and a very very very similar to Starcraft uh that's not necessarily a bad thing I'm a big star crash fan I would love it if Blizzard decided tomorrow that hey we're gonna bring Starcraft to the iPhone until then though I almost like will be what most likely will be playing star front it's a pretty good game not perfect but let's go ahead just jump right on into it so there's a couple of things just like in StarCraft you can go ahead and you guys will trust me you'll be able I will be comparing it against Starcraft a lot in this review because that is pretty much what it is but there is the action TV this is where you can view your replays which is definitely a nice feature I won't be getting into that review down but there's also multiplayer you can play locally against another person who has an iPhone or iPod Touch or of course you can play online with a random person one thing I do want to mention while I meant while I'm thinking about it is this does not support all iPhones and iPod touches you're going to need the third generation or newer devices for star front to work so just a heads up there and then we add single players so let's just jump straight on in there's campaign but for this I'm going to show you guys a skirmish this is just basically a 1v1 vs. CPU that's there are a few different mats here let's take a look um must pick rumble in the jungle I'm just gonna pick rookie because I'm a noob and then we're going to pick our race now there are three races and they're pretty much the same as in Starcraft if you guys know that Aaron's this is the consortium we have desert which is the mere yet and we had the Protoss which is the wardens I'm a zerg player so I'm gonna be playing as a myriad not like redcoat looks cool um so we're gonna play against let's play against the wardens and they look cool in blue so we'll go ahead and do this okay so to begin with let me just get this going really quickly here just get them over here the way this will work is go ahead and select this guy I will create some gas plate right here but the way this works is just like in StarCraft do you have three major resources you have you have money which is basically minerals which you get from this you have to build buildings on top of the minerals and the resources but it's not a huge deal you also have energy which is basically like gas and you have supply which is you know supply it's just how many unions you can have so we'll send this over here and create more grubs the grubs are your drones for the most part we'll set a riot point over inside the building so yeah it's very similar in fact you can see that little worm looking thing is our drone or our grub and that's pretty much our workhorse it's gonna allow you to go ahead and get units it's gonna allow you to get buildings all of that kind of stuff so actually now that the beginning of there's not a whole lot you can do I'll go ahead just give you guys a quick little overview of the UI so as you can see up at the top right you do have a mini-map yeah so you can scroll around take a look at the various different bases all the way around the map you know it works decently I would prefer if there was actually uh well if it was a little bit bigger because obviously your finger pretty much covers the whole thing but it is functional it works pretty decently you also do have a list of things so for example this is our main building we can go in here create grubs or different buildings allow you to build different things and should let's create a lower nominally quickly here this is low or not is what you use to create units this is for the most part you're spawning pool from Starcraft so letting you making grubs just because you that's basically your lifeblood if you're not creating grubs you're you're gonna need more of them just to make buildings and etc etc anyway so that's about it for the basics you build various different buildings which allows you to get units something you can upgrade the units all that kind of stuff I want to get too technical into it but suffice it to say if you've ever played Starcraft this is going to feel right at home so here's our first building and we can build two units we can build the Mangler which is pretty much a zergling we can build a venom slinger which is pretty similar to a hydra list so let's build one of each set a rally point right over here our workers are idle so let's and we'll just leave it alone right now but of course you need to build more was called a mega mite and bloat to get more energy and more gas for your more energy and more crystals for your army so anyway guys I'll go ahead and cut here I'm gonna skip ahead and show you guys a little bit of the there we gots perfect actually there's a scouting little probe or worker in our base but just perfect time we've got our units out to stop it okay so I've built up a bit of an army here just pretty much basically load to your units but for this match that's not gonna be an issue so as you can see here it's kind of attacking the base on this easy difficulty it's pretty simple just sit back and build a base and you know just win it's it's not that difficult you can see here I've got my units streaming in from all sides and my opponent should be right about here so I'm going to show you guys really quickly here just how the combat goes it's pretty impossible to micro or you're not familiar with it well that's actually get battle there you can see here there's battles going on all the place I'm with my fourth generation ipod touch there's no issues whatsoever with with frame rate or anything like that well actually that was not a great idea I should have thought it through a little bit more um but well if we lose we lose um so yeah we've we're pushing through pretty well here but yeah it's impossible Micro or if you guys aren't familiar with the term to basically do your units individually it's really really difficult to to deal with that but yeah we're gonna be close here I'm not sure yeah we might have it here yeah so I know guys that's it for star front really fun RTS it's not as good obviously a Starcraft but it on a mobile device on iPhone iPod Touch I love have no issues with it it's a lot of fun to play definitely very cool to just be able to pull out of your pocket and start playing a little bit on you know on your way doing whatever so anyway guys that's it enough rambling check it out it is free in the App Store it's basically the first mission you get to play if you want to play any more than that you will have to go ahead and in app purchase purchase the entire thing which is currently $7 anyway guys thanks for watch