Yearly Archives: 2013

Infinity Wars

Infinity Wars should feel familiar to all trading card game players while drastically upgrading the game systems to bring ease of use to a whole new level. Infinity Wars keeps the best parts of TCG’s, scrapping the annoying bits, and doing incredible evolutions in the trading card genre thanks to the digital platforms most of us have in our pockets.

 

Features

“Merged Deck” Mode – Tired of the player with the better deck walking away with free wins? Test your opponent’s ability to adapt in a mode where you can both build a deck out of any combination of your deck and theirs.

 

Fully Animated Deck – The playing field comes alive with cards offering detailed animations and environment cards that completely change the background of the battle.

 

Hardcore Strategy – While getting into Infinity Wars is simple, learning the nuances of combat flow and various counter strategy will take plenty of trial and error to master. Experts will have a distinct advantage over new players once they master the strengths of their deck.

 

Weekly Updates – New quests and new cards are added constantly with plans to build support extending into German and Chinese regions.

Infinity Wars – First Look

By Jordan Hall (ApocaRUFF), OnRPG Journalists

 

 

Infinity Wars is an up-and-coming computer-based animated trading card game. Lightmare Studios, the developers, originally set up a Kickstarter to gain five-thousand dollars in funding, but ended up receiving almost eighteen-thousand. The game is set apart from other TCGs by the animated card graphics and gaming board, which brings the game to life. With great art combined with the interesting gameplay, this should make for a fantastic card game experience. Let’s take a first look at the game and see if that holds true.

 

 

The Cards

As I mentioned, the cards in Infinity Wars are animated. This means that when you click on a card, it will begin looping a short animation that plays in the card art. To me, this made the cards much more interesting, as you try to understand the story behind the art. There are multiple factions in the game, each with their own unique theme to set them apart from the others. I cannot say enough to praise how awesome these cards are.

 

Infinity Wars Card Art

 

Not only do the cards have beautiful animated art, but the playing area looks great too. Your side of the table changes depending on what factions, such as turrets on either side of you. If you play a location card, it will change the playing area to reflect that location. It makes you want to play location cards not only for the benefits they can give you, but just because you want to see how the play area changes. It’s stuff like this that catches your interest in the game, and I wish it were possible for this kind of stuff to happen in real life.

 

Infinity Wars Play Field

 

The User Interface is spectacular. I had no issues manipulating my cards, and there was nothing confusing about it. It was simple, straight forward, and pleasing to the eye. Everything I clicked was responsive immediately, and I never noticed a bit of lag. This is pretty good for a game that is in beta. I can’t wait to see how things work out when the game is more polished and released.

 

 

Collecting and Trading

Infinity Wars is called a Trading card game for a reason. Just like other TCGs, collecting cards either by buying booster packs or trading with other players is a big thing. Part of the fun, maybe all of the fun if that’s what you like about the game, comes from interacting with your collection and watching it grow. I have to admit that I do not know how well this concept will work with virtual items, but it will be interesting to see how it works out. I can surely understand why people would want to collect Infinity War’s cards.

 

You can buy Booster Packs that range in size and cost. You can get a cheap three card pack, or a more expensive fifteen card pack. It is also possible to purchase starter decks that will provide you with a full deck to help get you started. These are all familiar to those of us that have played TCGs in the past.

 

Infinity Wars Card Pack

 

 

How It’s Played

Infinity Wars is actually a pretty easy game to pick up, which is nice. Unfortunately, in the past, there have been similar attempts at online TCGs that tried to be different by making their game over complicated. That’s not to say that it is a simple game, because it isn’t. There is enough room for strategy that I feel you could spend a long time trying to refine your play style and deck. Of course, being a TCG that is played with a shuffled deck, a bit of luck is apparent in the game which spices things up.

 

Infinity Wars Game

 

The decks are made up of character cards, spell cards, and location cards. Character cards are the ones that fight and defend, while spell cards can give your character cards buffs, allow you to draw more cards, damage your opponent’s fortress, or anything else along those lines. Location cards have the unique effect of changing the looks of the playing field and giving certain types of cards bonuses. I don’t think there is a limit on how many cards you can have, but there is a minimum requirement of forty cards.

 

Infinity Wars Deck Builder

 

Three of those forty cards will need to be commanders. These are pre-picked character cards that go into the ‘commander zone’ portion of the play field. These cards may be played directly into the defense or attack zones for their resource cost. Most cards must first spend a turn in the support zone before they may be put into the battlefield. You can see why picking the right commander cards can be important.

 

Infinity Wars Commander Cards

 

Speaking of zones, there are four. The commander zone, which I already explained. The assault zone, where you put cards that you want to attack enemy cards or the opponent’s fortress. The defense zone, which is where you put cards you want to defend your fortress. And the support zone, where cards stay while they wait to be played. The fighting takes place in the assault and defense zone, with your assault zone being across from your opponent’s defense zone and vice versa for you.

 

Infinity Wars Battlefield

 

In order to damage your opponent’s fortress, you must first destroy all the cards blocking your way in your opponent’s defense zone. You will need to be careful, however, as the defending card has a chance at retaliating against the card that hit it. And while the first card may not kill your card, the next could as your card retains any damage it takes. I like this, as it allows you to take down very powerful cards even if luck hasn’t been on your side and you have nothing that can compare. But then again, this has been the bane of my play time, as my opponent always ends up taking out that card I spent a quarter of the game cultivating.

 

Infinity Wars Fighting

 

To summon a card from your hand you need to spend resources. You generate one resource per turn and your maximum resource available goes up once per turn. You can use resources for more than just summoning cards. Some cards have special abilities that require resources to activate, or you can trade with the trading post using resources to do things like permanently increase your maximum resources or draw three cards. This aspect of the game adds in a lot of strategy as you will need to manage your resources expertly if you want to win.

 

Infinity Wars Playing Card

 

One last thing I want to mention is the health and moral. Health is the health of your fortress that enemy cards are aiming to whittle down. It begins at forty health. Moral, like health, starts at forty and goes down as your cards are destroyed. If either of these goes completely down, you lose the game and your fortress explodes. This is just a quick look at how the game is played, but you can see why there is room for strategy.

 

Infinity Wars Explosion

 

 

Conclusion

Infinity Wars seems to have all the elements that are needed for a great TCG. It has great card art and animations, the game works very well in a beta state, and it has the trading and collecting aspect that makes TCGs so fun. The actual gameplay is simple to learn, yet hard to master and luck is ever present with each card you draw. After getting to look at the game, I have a lot of hope for its future. And if I haven’t made it clear yet – I liked the game!

WeMade USA Launches Lost Saga With Dynamic New Content

Lost Saga

 

WeMade Entertainment USA, the US-based publishing arm of leading online game company WeMade Entertainment, today announced the commercial launch of the popular PC fighting MMO, Lost Saga. The company has added two new modes and a new map as well as the game’s first Premium character, Iori Yagami, the iconic star of The King of Fighters and SNK vs. Capcom fighting series. In addition, 15 new characters and four new maps added during the game’s recent open beta test (OBT) are available. Other new content will be added in continuing monthly updates as WeMade is committed to making LOST SAGA the online destination for PC fighting fans.

 

Now open for commercial play at playlostsaga.com, Lost Saga is an action-packed online beat-em-up game. The MMO brawler brings together heroes from fantasy, history, sci-fi, and well-known fighting games in an epic battle for glory. Players can choose from over 50 unique heroes and level up and customize their skills. Fighters can be subbed in, tag-team style, to create multi-character combos and teams of up to 16 players can participate in a variety of game modes. The game’s new Premium heroes allow players to play as their favorite characters from popular fighting games—but do not confer special powers that would unbalance gameplay.

 

Lost Saga

“Lost Saga opens a new chapter today where players can choose their hero and join battles with more characters, modes, and maps than ever before,” said WeMade USA CEO Philip Yun. “The addition of well-known characters such as Iori Yagami is just the start for us as more content will be added each month—we hope fans enjoy this new experience.”

 

To celebrate Lost Saga’s launch, in-game events such as the opportunity to pick up a free a style item to customize the player’s Hero will be on tap. Along with the events, the re-launched fighting MMO features fresh experiences for new and returning players. Champion mode takes two players to vertically-constrained maps that simulate classic, 2D-style combat—complete with KOs. The single-player Crusade challenge mode is now extended to a whopping 60 floors of tough opponents and the dizzyingly high Sky Castle level brings a fresh locale to the game. A range of new characters first shown in the OBT are now available in the commercial game including the sexy Devil Ranger, the transforming Werewolf, and leather-clad Rockstar. More new features and Heroes will be revealed in the coming weeks.

OnRPG Shotgun News 5/3: Defiance, Infinite Crisis, and TSW in Today’s MMO News

By Shannon Doyle (Leliah), OnRPG News Junkie

 

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Defiance Reaches 1 Million Milestone

Trion Worlds has reported that Defiance, the MMO has reached 1 million registrations just one month after its release. Meanwhile the TV show has enjoyed over 2 million viewers each of the three episodes which have aired so far. 500 hellbugs have also been killed and 50 million miles have been driven.

Infinite Crisis Highlights Two Deadly Ladies

New Champion Profile videos have been released for Poison Ivy and Gaslight Catwoman. The videos talk about the various skills the two ladies have and talk about the best tactics for them. Been Gaslight Catwoman’s Steam powered claws and Poison Ivy’s healing abilities the ladies of Infinite Crisis are not to be messed with. Beta starts May 8th so there is still time to register.

The Secret World Invites You to a Golden Weekend

This weekend it is party time for all the sweetlings out there in The Secret World. There are bonuses to be had for long time players and someone just buying the game. From double ability points to a $15 bonus for anyone who buys TSW this weekend isn’t to be missed.