Rebelstar: Tactical Command – Retro Gamer

Rising up in a comparatively unremarkable mid-sized city, it’s straightforward to develop into satisfied that nothing cool ever occurs the place you reside. Save for that point Gladiators stars got here to open the native department of Blockbuster Video, even the movie star sightings are mundane – Glenn Hoddle out for a stroll with the household, or Ray Winstone purchasing in Tesco. That modified in my late teenagers after I had a buddy whose “my dad makes videogames” story was really true. He’d labored with Julian Gollop on video games like Laser Squad, the Rebelstar sequence and Magic & Mayhem. We’d by no means talked about video games a lot as a result of we had been finding out politics collectively, so I didn’t study this till we’d already recognized one another for a couple of years, and I want he’d informed me sooner.

You see, round that point I used to be actually having fun with Rebelstar: Tactical Command, the anime-style revival of the model that felt prefer it had slightly extra in frequent with X-COM than the unique 8-bit video games. The sport had struggled to achieve an viewers because of the rise of the DS and shortly went on clearance, so I’d picked it up for simply £6 model new. Instantly that good cut price felt nearly like theft. By no means thoughts that Namco had printed it, the folks that made it had been folks that I might conceivably stumble upon on the street, and I’d purchased it for a value that in all probability barely coated manufacturing.

I resolved that the very best factor I might do was champion it, and I nonetheless like to modify individuals on to it in the present day. Whereas the Advance Wars video games are the turn-based technique titans on the Sport Boy Advance, Rebelstar is completely different sufficient to enhance them slightly than competing with them. Beside the apparent distinction in presentation, success relies upon way more on correctly equipping your squad for the mission at hand, and bringing issues all the way down to infantry fight lets you put money into your particular person troopers way more intently. In case you’re searching for an engrossing single-player technique recreation to occupy your time, it is a sturdy choice that’s continuously ignored.