We shooed Insect Wars (Konchuu Wars) away when the game's beetle-filled screenshots first flew into our periphery, believing the bug to be an uninspired pest. "Go away," we said, "and bother us no more." In our defense, language barriers kept us from understanding what the Success Corp. title was trying to communicate with its antennae and movement patterns.Having studied its habits, we found that the game isn't a Mushiking clone as we'd originally assumed, but a tactical RPG where you command an army of customizable, mechanized insects. Our mouths were agape, monocles falling from our faces when the truth was revealed. Below is a sampling of Insect Wars' creepy crawlers:
- a rifle-mounted praying mantis with buzzsaws -- my god, buzzsaws! -- for arms
- a lightning bug that terrorizes foes with its beam cannon tail
- a heavily-armored, treaded snail (pictured above) which acts as a transport for other units while healing them
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7-09-2007 @ 8:16PM
hvnlysoldr said...
It's like taking Advanced Wars, adding customizations, and slapping insects on them. Rad.
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7-09-2007 @ 8:42PM
Fatass of Kickassness said...
I was expecting this to be lame... from what I've seen from the video, it actually looks like it might be pretty good.
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7-09-2007 @ 8:50PM
Yan said...
Advanced Insects! lol a play on advance wars xD
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7-09-2007 @ 10:24PM
Vince said...
this looks epic. can we expect a stateside release?
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7-09-2007 @ 11:39PM
GlitchCog said...
That does look fantastic... except for that card in the middle. I don't want a card game. Those suck hard.
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7-10-2007 @ 8:40AM
L said...
Good Lord, man! NEVER bequeath your monocle to the offensity of the ground! Shame on you! I firmly place my top hat on in disgust! Harumph!
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7-10-2007 @ 12:03PM
Ladyfox said...
You know I could have swore I've seen something similar to this already. Oh, here it is, it's called Zoids:
http://www.pheno.zoids.org.uk/empire/ez018saicurtis.htm
http://zoidsfan.jerrystoys.com/images/emz-18.jpg
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7-10-2007 @ 9:46PM
v3n0me said...
yeah, thats what i was thinking, it reminds me of Zoids
-v
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