

Don’t get me wrong this developer definitely deserves your money, and the Wii U version is definitely playable and enjoyable. Using the stylus you move specific units to their positions and you can design your own level by dropping blocks on the grid. Cubemen 2 Review Conclusion Cubemen 2 is definitely worth your time, but I’m just not sure the Wii U version is the one you should be getting. Having the same exact image on both screens is not necessary for Cubemen 2 because everything happens on the touchpad.
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Besides the lack of female skins, there is no reason to keep the TV set on since the entire game can be played from the GamePad. Technically the ninja, mummy and spaceman could be females but a pirate girl or a princess would be a nice welcome. With twenty alternate options, not a single one is a female version. Unfortunately, there is a disappointment with the unit skins. Cubemen is a 3D Good v Evil tower defense style game when little blue men take on little red men in an effort to. Following Cubemen, released just over a year ago, Cubemen 2 brings in some updates while keeping the base game more or less the same.
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Each new level gives you a limited number of cubes and the only way to earn more cubes is by blowing up opposing cubemen. Cubemen is a tower defense style strategy game series where you get to control faceless armed cubemen against waves of enemies, potentially sending them to their death. The only way to use a cubeman is by purchasing one with in-game currency: cubes. There is a limit to how many which cubemen you use. You must position your men quickly since enemies can destroy your tower in the span of three minutes. Playing against AI is the best way to practice and plan out battles before playing with real players. Building a level with floating terrain, teleports and health stations is a fun way to dream up a gruesome battleground. Having twenty skins for my units of cubemen, a player can make spacemen fight in ancient Egypt or have green shirted cowboys fight in a digital city.Īs much as the level patterns and unit skins have an impact on the visual aspect of Cubemen 2, it is the strategy that takes the stage of this production.

The beauty of this simplistic looking game is imagining and creating your own battles. Cubemen 2 Review The Wii U gamepad is severely underutilized on the system, and very few game creators outside of Nintendo are trying to use it as more than just an away-from-TV screen.
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3 Sprockets allows the player to change the background song too! Since the level structure is against a plain-colored background and the only shape is a cube, the aesthetic options ensure every players’ experience of Cubemen 2 is unique.īy changing my level pattern to the Medieval set and using the ninja skin for my cubemen, I set up my own story of rabid pink-clothed ninja’s fighting off an enemy invader.
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If you’re curious, hit up the video below as Seon takes us through the large amount of customizability options as well as a few of the game’s included levels and the coveted level editor, which will allow players to create, upload, and download user-created maps across all platforms.Being able to swap out the design of the level allows the individual player to take full control of their visual experience within the game. The shift to different play modes, combined with the returning multiplayer and wide variety of skins leads to a whole bunch of different ways to play, which certainly isn’t a bad thing. I’m digging the changes that 3 Sprockets have made with the core formula in Cubemen 2. Skirmish: A two-player mode with a thoughtful blend of tower defence and tactics. With bigger maps, more units, and a load of visual options, Cubemen 2 also shifts gears from a gameplay perspective with a variety of new battle modes, such as ‘Territories,’ a time-based tug-of-war that charges players to ‘claim’ as many tiles as possible by walking over them (while preventing opposing players from claiming tiles previously taken). The fast-paced, action-packed, unique 3D Tower Defense game, Cubemen. We had the opportunity to speak with Seon Rozenblum of 3 Sprockets at GDC on its upcoming sequel, Cubemen 2.
