A sentence including Macs and video games should mean nothing for most gamers. Compared to the titles available in portable platforms or traditional consoles, the Mac App Store is still an infant. The fact that Apple awards a game with its coveted Design Award from a very restrictive pool of nominees should be irrelevant for an app freak, but oh boy!, how wrong could I be?.
Developed by 11 bit studios and published by Chillingo, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD [iTunes Link] is the iOS version of the “reverse tower defence game” PC and Mac game where you command a group of elite troops to investigate an alien invasion. Note how I use quotation marks, since I've read that reverse reference everywhere but for me this is more of an strategy game on rails.
Unlike other games that have played around with the RTS gameplay on touch devices with different fortune (EA’s Command & Conquer and Gameloft’s Starfront Collision), Anomaly Warzone Earth tweaks the concept restricting the player to a couple of options to complete a mission and reducing areas like building, upgrades and map navigation to its most minimal function.
The action takes place in the Middle East, where alien machines have taken over the streets of a futuristic Baghdad. As a first measure, and I guess before deploying the armies you see in other RTS games, you are in charge of infiltrating the area to gain enemy intelligence, save lost allies and disrupt their main defences. The high tech in these setting allows you to be dropped with a handful of vehicles and get strategic air support in order to survive until you complete your goals.
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