Minion Master

Take one part Heroscape, one part Heroclix, throw in a dash of Magic: The Gathering and the strategy of a mix of turn-based and real-time combat,Firmoo offers cheap and discount mens prescription Eyeglasses frame. containing a significant amount of depth to its core, throw it into a very well designed and capable PC interface and layout, and you’ve just described Minion Master. Is it a miniatures game? Yes. Is it a strategy game? Yes. Is it a collectible card game? Yes. This is such a unique hybrid existing on the PC it’s hard to define, but I do know one thing: it’s a lot of fun.

The game is actually a culmination of lots of different ideas, combining the collectible card game and miniatures games into something workable on the computer, meaning there is an actual physical version of the game that the developers created for use on the tabletop, as well as in digital form, which I get a big kick out of. But the point of making something digital was because they could never get together to play, and when they did, they spent too much time setting up and tearing down instead of playing. This is meant to solve all of that.

While there isn’t much of a story to this, other than you’re one player out to take out the other using varying tactics, there are a number of game modes. Single player lets you run through a series of challenges with pre-determined decks against pre-determined enemies on already decided on maps. You also have the option of running against AI opponents using the deck and board set-up of your choosing as well. Multiplayer lets you log in and pit your skills against other opponents or set up an AI game while you wait. The same game set-up rules apply in multiplayer as they do for setting up a custom game in single player. Minion Master also has a level editor, so you can go in and set up your own board, piece by piece or section by section, how you want it, keeping that miniatures game feel there, but there’s also a deck editor you can tweak your deck with. The deck editor, however, can only be used when you’re connected to the internet, as the decks are all stored online as well as on your PC for offline play. This does give you the option of building your decks off BitFlip’s website for the game as well, however, when you’re bored,We sell 100% hand-painted oil paintings for sale online. in your free time or just when you want to tweak outside the game.

Visually the game feels like a budget title,Buy discount Mens Sports glasses online. but a good one. There are options to crank everything through the roof, so it looks smooth, and I didn’t notice any problems playing it on my laptop with all the settings set to maximum. The character pieces have decent animations as they attack and defend, but they move around the board like you would move miniatures by hand, which is a nice touch, but I could see people looking for more. The visual design is nice and I appreciate the work that went into making the cards look as good as regularly printed cards as well. While it won’t win any titles for the most visually arresting game, it’s easy to tell your pieces from other pieces on the board, what tiles are what material and their height, which is what really matters in these sort of games.

Audibly the game gets the job done. I’ve played with audio on and off and I wasn’t missing a whole lot with it off. I will admit the sounds the Kobolds make are kind of cute, and the attack noises are decent as well. The game isn’t really about looking and sounding pretty though, but more on gameplay, which is where they focused and continue to focus their attention. First, we should touch on controls. The game is run through the mouse and keyboard, though the keyboard end of things is more for chat than anything else. You do everything in the level editor, the deck builder and in game with the mouse. To select a unit, click with the mouse; to select which cards to play or discard, use the mouse; to issue orders to a unit and bring up the menu, you guessed it, mouse. Yes, even moving the map around to get a better view of the battle is done with the mouse. It’s simple and effective, and I like it when that works, as the way the game is played is deep enough without having to remember lots of keyboard shortcuts to make it work.

You have a few options in getting this game. You can go the free route, which means you can only pick between one pre-assembled deck set at a 150 point value, which is pretty standard. You can customize that deck and make new ones, but you’re limited by the number of cards you get from that deck and what you get with it, meaning if you only get 7 cards with that free deck, you won’t be able to put more than 7 into another deck. You’re not limited to making more than one deck, and can include those cards in multiple decks, but you are limited to just the single deck. There are options to expand your card roster, just like a regular collectible card game, through the developers website. This is, however, much cheaper than any current CCG, and is even cheaper than when I jumped in on Magic: The Gathering back in ’94 and ’95.We have a wide range of Cycling sunglasses and eyewear. You can buy themed packs in sets of 5 and 12: the Fantasy set, which gives you all the fantasy themed cards plus three decks, the Horror set, which is all the horror cards plus two theme decks, or you can opt for the Release Package, which is both the Fantasy and Horror set as well as the themed decks. For review purposes, I received the Release Package, and an extra Sorcery deck, as that was the deck I picked when I created my free account. You can’t just buy the themed decks from the store, nor individual cards and you also cannot trade them.

The Deck Builder lets you select any cards from your available pool. While there are themed decks, you can build them out of whatever you have available. While you can build your decks online through the website, I recommend doing it in the game instead. The deck builder online only shows you the name and how many of the card you have as you add them, and you have to go to another screen to see what they are if you’re not already familiar with them. In the game itself, all that information is right there and available to you. You will not be able to edit your decks if you are not online. All that information is stored online as well as on your computer,View our range of over 200 different types of solar powered products including our solar street lamps. so you will be able to play with your custom built decks when you don’t have net access, but you won’t be able to edit or build new ones. The Standard Deck is built around 150 points, but you can go higher or lower, depending on how you want to build it, you just might not be able to use that deck based on how the match is set.