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Military Madness: Nectaris

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Game Info

Publisher: Backbone Entertainment

Developer: Backbone Entertainment

Genre(s): Strategy, Simulation

Players: 4

ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

Release Date: September 30, 2009

Summary

[Xbox Live Arcade] The Military is back for a new generation of recruits! The classic turn-based strategy series Military Madness: Nectaris is exploding onto Xbox LIVE Arcade. With an all-new graphical barrage, an all-new commander unit, online team and vs. multiplayer, and a platoon of other new features, this is the maddest game in the series yet. [Hudson Soft]

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What The Critics Said

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X360 Magazine UK

It's just grand. [Issue#52, p.105]

TeamXbox

It seems as if the developers have done everything they can to make the experience authentic for nostalgia-starved fans of the original. The rest of us just see a dated game, with dated graphics, providing us with a solid, yet un-evolved take on the turn-based strategy genre. It does what it does great. The question is, is that what you want to do?

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NZGamer

If you're at all interested in playing a strategy game on a console, there's not many better options - that realtime guff belongs on the PC, turn-based works so much better on a 360 controller.

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IGN

There is still fun to be had with Military Madness, but the almost 20-year old game definitely feels dated today.

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GameFocus

I believe Military Madness: Nectaris is an excellent example of a niche genre game that will really appeal to diehard fans of turn-based hex-board strategy fans. The rest of us will probably find the basics of the game, its repetitiveness and substandard graphics and audio to be too big of a turn off to give it any real consideration.

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ZTGameDomain

Military Madness: Nectaris is not a bad game, just one that is well behind the times.

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Official Xbox Magazine

Newcomers will find its plodding pace and lifeless visuals tedious, but old-school tacticians will happily breathe vintage moon dust for days. [Holiday 2009, p.81]

Game Over Online

It's unforgiving, user-unfriendly, and the computer routinely cheats. I can't recommend it to modern gamers at all.

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Teletext GameCentral

The old Advance Wars clone gets a remake, but somehow avoids getting a proper 21st-century makeover.

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Strategy Informer

It’s essentially an enhanced remake of the original with new 3D graphics applied. There’ll be a certain feeling of monotony when playing through the title, so players shouldn’t expect a fantastical time that revolutionizes the genre.

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Gamer Limit

Gamers who are familiar with previous incarnations may find that Military Madness: Nectaris is a neat little addition to their collection, but for everyone else, there isn’t much to offer here in terms of entertainment.

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GameSpot

This turn-based strategy game is a dated and shallow blast from the past.

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GamePro

Military Madness: Nectaris needs better graphics. It needs more grab-you-and-suck-you-right-in sounds and background noise. It needs to brush up the controls as well. Everything put together equals a real stinker in the long run.

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Gamers' Temple

There isn't a whole lot else to say about Nectaris. It's an old school strategy title that I'm sure someone will enjoy based on either nostalgia or just a lack of anything else to play.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes

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