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1. WICH IS BEST BATTLE ISLE 3 OR BATTLE ISLE INCUBATION PC
2. WICH IS BEST BATTLE ISLE 3 OR BATTLE ISLE INCUBATION SERIES
3. WICH IS BEST BATTLE ISLE 3 OR BATTLE ISLE INCUBATION ZIP

You can even zoom in and see the paint peeling from the flamethrower soldier's back-mounted tanks. The landscape and buildings are a real delight, as are the vehicles and men.

WICH IS BEST BATTLE ISLE 3 OR BATTLE ISLE INCUBATION PC

With a reasonable PC and a decent graphics card, the results are impressive. You won't see enemy units until they reveal themselves but you can at least plan your next moves. You can rotate at any angle, examine any terrain and even scout the whole map.

WICH IS BEST BATTLE ISLE 3 OR BATTLE ISLE INCUBATION ZIP

You control an amazingly flexible camera that can zip up overhead for a bird's eye view of the landscape or zoom in close and get right among your soldiers and vehicles. It can even give you a stomach-churning dose of motion sickness if you overdo it.

Battle Isle 4 was created in 3D twist-and-spin-around 'whizzovision' and it takes some bloody mastering, I can tell you. What causes initial problems -but what eventually makes the game so good - is the 3D element. The combination of real-time and turns works well enough. Eventually the distinction blurs as you'll soon end up either defending your base or invading someone else's. Whichever side you play, you start out with an 'economic' island and a 'battle' island which helps you get used to the two intertwined elements of turn-based and realtime gameplay. The plot pits the forces of General Bratt against a sect called the Children of Haris, but that's irrelevant as both have the same weapons and tactics anyway. During your opponent's turn, you switch back to your base and manage your economy. You get anywhere from a couple of minutes to quarter of an hour, depending on the scenario and settings, to do what has to be done. This is achieved by giving you forever to sort out your economy, but only a finite amount of time to move and fire your units before your opponent gets his, her (or its) turn. However, the bomb-blasting, bullet-bouncing bits are strictly turn-based. So how on earth does it manage that? Well, the economics of the game - mining resources and creating useful things like tanks, planes and ships is done in real time with no let-up at all. It combines real-time and turn-based elements in a fully-rendered and textured 3D world. Battle Isle 4 is certainly a big step forward in strategy game terms. If the numbers confuse you, Battle Isle 4: The Andosia War is actually the fifth instalment because the one-time classic Incubation continued the same storyline at a squad-level game.īut wait, according to Blue Byte, it has announced a new genre.

WICH IS BEST BATTLE ISLE 3 OR BATTLE ISLE INCUBATION SERIES

Meanwhile, back on earth, Blue Byte has tried hard to make the fifth incarnation of its seminal Battle Isle strategy series into what they call the definitive 'conflict simulation'. My ideal strategy game - aside from pornographic Patience, of course -would be something with the pace and exhilaration of Red Alert with the immersive 3D graphics of a game like Ground Control and the depth and replayability of a resource management game like Civilization.