AmoebArena1996

AmoebArena

1996 Casady & Greene

Playable on

Game modes

Single playerMultiplayer

Details

Launch

1996

Developer

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Overview

"Start with a futuristic version of Chinese checkers invented in a biohazard lab, add just a dash of the cantina scene from Star Wars, and you’ll get a pretty good idea of what AmoebArena is all about. This strategy" game’s concept is simple: pit your army of microscopic organisms against your opponents’ microscopic armies in a free-for-all arena battle. Imagine the game of Risk invented by a mad cellular biologist Your armies are made up of four types of single-cell soldiers: cytozoids, amoeboids, mitoplasts, and blockers. Each type varies in terms of movement, attack power, health, and ability to reproduce. You start the game with a set number of each organism, which you place in your corner, or “home area,” of the board. Your opponents do the same, and then it's a cytoplasmic slugfest as you pilot your pieces in the arena according to their movement allowances, attacking and defending. The winner is the player with pieces left on the hoard at the end of the battle. It took me less than...

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