Steel Horizons review

All the action without all those red and white pegs

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But your ships' direction and the way you group your ships together is about the extent of the game’s strategy. Once you come face to face with an enemy and it’s time to get your hands dirty, the game switches from the strategic map view into “real-time” battle mode. What’s supposed to be a dynamic tactical combat system turns into a frenzied and chaotic melee of button mashing.

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GenreStrategy
DescriptionThis sea-faring strategy game sinks itself with slow gameplay and a lousy plot. Go play Advance Wars instead.
PlatformPSP, DS
US censor ratingEveryone 10+
UK censor rating12+
Release date2 July 2007 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK)
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