Punch Entertainment’s Reign of Swords received serious critical fanfare when it appeared on mobile phones and PCs earlier this year, and deservedly so. Here was a turn-based strategy game that gathered up all of the genre’s best ideas--from classic games like Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics--and skillfully redeployed them into a medieval setting, while adding cross-platform online competition to boot. The newly released iPhone version of the game delivers the same excellent core experience, and that’s more than enough for us to recommend it to tactics nerds, even with its...
Punch Entertainment has released Reign of Swords for the iPhone--the third platform for this turn-based strategy game (it's already available for mobile phones and PC). The gameplay's a lot like Advance Wars, only set in a fictional Medieval kingdom. You buy up various kinds of units and move them around the gameboard tactically, trying to get the high ground and put the screws on your opponents. The game features online, cross-platform play, as well as a weekly in-game reward system that grants you new units and technologies based on your score. We loved the game on mobile, and we...
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