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Sneak Preview: 33rd Division for iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Mary Ann Neder on Sep 17, 2009 at 6:56 am | View Comments • Digg story
Filed Under: Reviews • iPhone

There’s a patrol coming! Quick, take cover! This is a quick glimpse as Craneball Studios’ places you behind enemy lines in their upcoming release, 33rd Division for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Overview
33rd Division is a line-drawing tactical game with a WW2 setting. Your mission is to guide each allied soldier, medic or sergeant that appears on the screen by drawing a path for them so they may successfully cross enemy checkpoints without being detected. Once your soldier is within the enemy’s field of vision, you will be shot on sight! Each troop member moves at a different rate of speed. Soldiers move at normal speed, medics at fast speed and Sergeants who move the slowest.

In order to avoid being killed, you have several options at your disposal. You may redraw your soldier’s path, you may hit the deck and stay on the prone position until the patrol has passed (this action is initiated by double tapping your soldier), and/or by collecting power ups that appear along the way. Power ups can be anything from invisibility, double speed, enemy freeze, bonus points, etc. Reaching certain scores will unlock the next mission.

There are two game modes of play, Time and Life modes. In Time mode, which is the harder of the two missions, you are given 30 seconds to get as many soldiers to their destination as quickly as possible and are rewarded with 10 seconds added on the clock for each successful crossing. In Life mode, you have 5 lives to lose before it’s game over for you and your mission.

The difference between other line-drawing games such as Flight Control and 33rd Division is that you don’t need to have more than one soldier appear on the screen at the same time. Once a soldier is killed or have made it past the enemy, another soldier will appear on screen.

Features

4 great mission based on a real European WW2 settings
2 game modes – Time and Life
Original Soundtrack
Unique soldiers and german voices
Online score through OpenFeint

Recommendation
33rd Division has all the makings of a great game and will no doubt be amongst the top downloaded game on the iTunes App Store when it’s finally released to the public. The maps are stunning and the sergeant’s voiceovers will certainly make you stand up and pay attention.

Update Oct 21 10:46 PM PST: 33rd Division is now available in the App Store for $0.99.

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