While the RTS formula in Starfront: Collision is nothing new-some players have accused the game of directly cloning Starcraft 2-what helps distinguish it from other RTS games on the iOS platform is the high-quality presentation and attention to detail. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Gameloft fix this after release. The controls worked very well and were easy to figure out, with the only confusing issue being building placement-when selecting a building for construction, a silhouette must be placed on the map, oddly reversing the panning controls from their usual orientation as the player is dragging the building silhouette as opposed to the screen itself. On-screen sidebars and menu buttons provide access to building orders and unit groupings, as well as a slider for zooming the on-screen view. In either mode, units are selected and given movement orders simply by tapping on a unit and on its destination, with single-tap and tap-and-hold gestures differentiating simple movement orders from attack orders. The second control mode simply reverses this behavior, with a single-finger gesture to draw a unit selection rectangle and a two-finger gesture required to pan the screen. In the default mode, players pan the in-game view by tapping and dragging, and use a pinch gesture to select multiple units. Starfront provides relatively intuitive control options and a quick set of tutorial missions to get players started. It’s worth noting that Starfront: Collision does not provide any integration with Apple’s Game Center, instead leveraging Gameloft’s own “Gameloft Live” service for multiplayer online gaming and achievement tracking. Multiplayer modes follow a similar vein, with up to four players competing online or locally on the same Wi-Fi network, and five different multiplayer maps to choose from. The game also provides a quick Skirmish mode where players can choose from one of seven different game maps and choose which of the three races to play as and play against, with the objective of simply taking out the opposing faction. Each faction has unique buildings, units and abilities, providing for a varied game play experience as players move through the campaign.
Beyond the initial four tutorial missions, the Campaign mode includes a total of seventeen different scenarios: eight as the Consortium, five as the Myriad and four as the Wardens. After a series of eight Consortium missions, you then take on the role of the Myriad, an indigenous alien race fighting to prevent the Consortium from plundering the resources on their home world, and finally play as the Wardens, a sentient robot race trying to turn the war in its own favor.
You begin as the Consortium, a human conglomerate that has recently begun Xenodium mining operations on Sinistral. The Campaign mode consists of seventeen missions, during which players take on the role of each of the three major factions fighting for control of Sinistral.
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