Island Wars 2 Christmas Edition

Type of program: Arcade
Supported platforms: Win 9x/ME/2K/XP
Company name: InterAction studios
Version: 2.50
Cost: $19.95
Installed size: 9 MB

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Let the wars begin! You are out in the middle of nowhere, just 2 little islands with 4 trees on each. Why can’t we all just get along? Well, you don’t. You gotta blow up his 4 trees before he does the same to you, as losing all 4 trees loses the game.

You can play against the computer or a friend. There is many enemy types-helicopters, planes, balloons, and more. There is also many types of weapons, both for and against you-bombs, air to ground missile's, submarine launched ICBM’s and much more.

There are multiple game types, and each game type has it’s own similar and different rules. and all can be set for easy, normal and hard. The game types are Classic War, just you and him-mano a mano; Invasion, where you defend again increasingly difficult waves; [difficult? in level 10 there are a couple of huge dirigible type monsters that generate lots of air to ground missile's] Challenge, where you fight your way through increasingly difficult islands; Balloon Pop, a race against time-10 rounds-shoot as many balloons as you can; Free for All, where you make your own rules and tailor the game to what you want, and Screensaver, which is not a game but a fireworks screensaver-leave it running and listen to the Caribbean style music-sunshine optional.

There are many options and bonus available. In the demo version only Classic and Invasion are available, and in Invasion only 10 of the 50 waves are available. Registering the program gets you rid of the nag screens, all 50 of the waves in Invasion, full documentation guides and hints, cheat codes, unlimited upgrades and support, the ability to defend using the autocannonist, and many extra goodies.

Check this one out, I really got a kick out of Invasion, and as we all know, I don’t like shooters...mostly because the safest place to be in a shooter with me is in front of me....can’t hit my butt with a scoop shovel! But I liked this one!

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Reviewed by Stormy Strock

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