My Town Magazine, Discover Queensland Edition 8th September 2014 Edition 41 | Page 68

Gaming Review. by Liam Pardon
THE INFINITY HAS BEGUN

out and don’t like cleanly done, Infinity Wars prides itself on the
high quality of its art style and card animations.

It’s been a rather lengthy amount of time since a good TCG
(trading card game) has arisen to the surface of technological
gaming, the most recent being Hearthstone. But all that is about
to change on September 5th with the Gold release of the hardcore TCG, Infinity Wars.

Now into the gameplay and strategies involved. To begin with,
you are dropped instantly into a small, quick yet very comprehensive tutorial, explaining the basics of how to play the
game and the early level strategies and card abilities. This sets
you up to very easily battle the AI (artificial intelligence) bots
and unlock medals and new cards. This gives you just enough
experience to begin the campaign missions. From here you can
choose to use premade decks that you unlock in the campaign,
or decks you can create using the factions available to you. The
best thing about this option is that each faction is completely
different from the others, with their own unique combinations and play styles, ranging from defensive, to spell casting, to
straight out instant offensive play. These factions include: Cult
of Verore, Flame Dawn, Descendants of the Dragon, Exiles, Sleepers of Avarrach, Genesis Industries,
Overseers of Solace, Warpath and a Neutral race
that can be used in conjunction with the other races.
Currently I have fallen in love with an Overseers of
Solace + Descendants of the Dragons hybrid deck.
The defensive capabilities of the Descendants and
the healing melded with the offensive power of the
Overseers just makes for some powerful balance.

Created by Lightmare Studios, this hardcore strategy TCG has
the potential to overthrow even games like League of Legends
and GMod. To begin with the creators have specifically designed
the gameplay and the strategies involved in the matches to be
simple to figure out, yet extraordinarily challenging to successfully complete.You get such a satisfying feeling when you
perfectly win the game with your flying angels or overpowered

infected zombies. Trampling your opponent with flame warriors
or savage beasts and destroying their combos with demonic
figures and deadly mechs. The game is incredibly smooth and
easy to run, takes up little to no space on your PC, Mac, iOS or
Android devices and provides with endless hours of entertainment.
There are a massive multitude of aspects that make this game a
wondrous experience to play, but one of the biggest aspects is
the cards themselves. They are the most aesthetically pleasing
gaming cards I have ever had the pleasure of laying my eyes
upon. Every miniscule of detail has been covered in the art
style, from the torn muscles in the zombies to the armour of
the warriors. Not only that, but every single card has its own,
unique, animation. These animations, just like the art style, are
done with precise perfection and clean motion. Unlike other
animated card games where the animations sometimes glitch

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Other things I would like to mention about this
game include; music. The soundtrack created for this
game fits absolutely perfectly with the pace of the
game. It appeals to your senses, which attracts you
to wanting to play more. Lightmare studios seems
to know how to play on their audiences senses to
rip them deep within the immerse universe created
by their games. There are also several different types
of game modes including PVP (player versus player), ranked
matches, draft modes and even tournaments to come in the
near future.
To sum it all up, Infinity Wars is a fast paced, hardcore strategy
TCG with fantasmagorical graphics, intense gameplay, quick
loading screens, great soundtrack and a more then adequate
coverage of different strategic play styles with their creative factions. The only problem I can point out is that the matchmaking
isn’t balanced for normal PVP but the positives overly outweigh
this one minute negative. I will give this fantastic game 9.5 Agent
Coyle’s out of 10.
Before I sign off, I would like to mention some interesting news
about this game. Soon to come with the gold release I believe,
are sound effects to the cards, adding an even more immersive
feel to the gameplay.