Empire of the Ants
SCORE: 68
I live streamed Empire of the Ants on Rumble for just over four
hours. At that point I got the feel of this game, and decided to move
on. There is another reason I stopped playing Empire of the Ants. I got
completely and totally stuck. Empire of the Ants has a glitch in it
where it tells the player to do something, the player does it, and the
game does not acknowledge this. Empire of the Ants is based on the
Bernard Werber Saga.
There are multiple aspects of Empire of the Ants that feel like this
game has a split personality. The graphics look nice when we zoom in on
the ants. When we are at our base and zoomed out the graphics in Empire
of the Ants do not look so great. There are parts of Empire of the Ants
that feel like am RTS and parts that feel like a platformer. At the end
of the day this led to confusion and neither felt like they were done
very well. Like the developer wanted to do two things but did not have
the time to polish both.
Empire of the Ants contains some violent content, and bad language. The
violent content makes sense in the context of playing an army of ants.
The bad language could have been left out and more families could have
enjoyed Empire of the Ants. I did some research and according to other
websites Empire of the Ants can be beaten in as few as fourteen hours.
It may take others even longer. I already uninstalled Empire of the Ants
so it will be never.
I wanted to like Empire of the Ants so much. I find the idea of playing
a colony of ants really neat and really cool. There are three main
components of Empire of the Ants. The three components of Empire of the
Ants are explore, manage, and conquer. I really enjoyed the explore
portion of Empire of the Ants. I am not that big on the manage part.
Without doing the manage portion properly then conquest can be a
challenge at times.
I am unclear how realistic Empire of the Ants is in terms of the combat.
The balance in Empire of the Ants is really bad. Some missions were easy
as pie. Other missions in Empire of the Ants were obnoxiously difficult.
I feel like Empire of the Ants is not approachable by all members of the
family that are old enough to play it. That is something we look at here
at Family Friendly Gaming. Did you make your game accessible to the
family? I feel the answer to that for Empire of the Ants is no.
- Noah
Graphics: 70%
Sound: 70%
Replay/Extras: 70%
Gameplay: 60%
Family Friendly Factor: 70%
System: PC/PS5/Xbox Series X
Publisher: Microids
Developer: Tower Five
Rating: ‘E10+’ - Everyone SIX and OLDER ONLY
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