This sounds strange, but it goes to the heart of the underlying message in Greed Corp. is that instead of stockpiling resources as you do in most RTS or turn-based strategy games, your resource production is constantly working against you. The design aesthetic owes a bit to steampunk, and attempts to avoid overusing the obvious military themes like tanks and jeeps. Watching an enemy unit send up a flare upon conquering new territory, listening with anticipation and dread as a Harvester unit roils the earth and sinks one tile deeper, and the crumbling descent of tiles into oblivion, are sights and sounds you'll come to love while playing Greed Corp. paid a lot of attention to its units and their movement animations and sounds. The traditional strategy game tends to imbue its units with some character, but we all know listening to the same bland utterance the hundredth time we move a unit gets very old. The music is unusual, often sounding more like something off the AM radio dial than the usual driving guitar-rock, pseudo martial themes, or brooding techno. show subtle touches that separate this game from where it obviously drew inspiration. Things you can easily see and hear in Greed Corp. Especially when we look at the quality graphics used in the game, it's a shame that one can't see more detail. You can't have more than one player's units occupying a single tile, but we definitely kept reaching for the 'zoom' button that wasn't there. As you play through Greed Corp., it becomes less of an issue, because you find that key advances in an enemy's forces will be accompanied by either an obvious unit or a specific badge on that player's scoreboard. As a critique, the camera is often pulled back too far, with no option for zooming in on the action. is a bit different than anything we've seen before.

Offshoots like tower defense games have also come along and built a fan-base, but Greed Corp. We've played lots of them over the years, and they seem to be experiencing somewhat of a renaissance. The hexagonal grids, the tiered battlefields, and the various units that make up the opposing armies all strike a chord immediately for fans of turn-based strategy games. is a game that looks very familiar, but will surprise you with its gameplay.

Greed corp ipad