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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