From Strategyinformer.com: "Poor old aliens. All they want to do is expand throughout the universe, devouring all organic life. Then some whooping redneck jetpacks down from on high, wielding an assortment of high-tech weaponry, and blows their mandibles off. It's a hard life.
Infested Planet is a top-down real time strategy game with more than a hint of the tower defence genre about it, in which you take the role of a squad of mercenaries battling swarms of alien bugs. You start off with five marines, all armed with a reasonably effective, if unspectacular, assault rifles and some rocket launcher rounds. The game's single currency, BP, can be traded for further squad members, upgrades and building options, but to gain it you'll have to take down alien nests scattered about the level. This typically involves selecting your squaddies and pointing them at the nearest hive, which constantly spew out enemies, then waiting for them to blow it up with a gratifying splat. There's various capture points like this spread across each map for you to take and control, and defend against alien counter-attacks.".
GB: "We take a look at the games that have best captured extraterrestrials and their dealings with human beings."
They use Area 51 for the thumbnail which was a fantastic FPS on the original Xbox but don't include it in the list. Also Evolve but no Halo? Is this a joke?
The bottom line of this review is that this military strategy game is very much worth checking out, and it's available on Steam.
"Infested Planet is all about the flow of this dynamic give-and-take, back-and-forth, thrust-and-parry, feint-and-regroup, upgrade and counter upgrade. Other real time strategy games are battle lines smashing into each other, often won by sheer force or snowballing advantages, messy, fraught with loss. Infested Planet is a dance."
