Creeper World IXE Wykresy i Statystyki Steam

It's ok for returning fans, but if you're looking for an entry to creeper world universe, I'd recommend Creeper World 3, I think that's when the series peaked. Why I don't recommend this game? The graphics are ugly, I'd say it's a downgrade since CW3/(Particle Fleet: Emergence). CW4 had... weird feeling to the graphics, but it was the first, and so far the only game in the series, with actual 3D graphics so I could forgive that. Icons for some of the enemy units are the same assets from CW2 which dated very poorly. Some are super weird, like, there is an icon that looks like a pink bear, and doesnt fit at all into the universe. Rather than being top-down strategy, either in 2D like in CW1, CW3, PF:E or in 3D in CW4, this game goes back to CW2 style "from-the-side" view. While it is quite cool in terms of possible cave formations, in general I did not enjoy this style of gameplay as much. After CW4, I was hoping the series would "evolve" further down the 3D possibilities, hoping for 3D globes (like in "Total Annihilation" or "Per Aspera" games). Character portraits are also super ugly which I don't understand at all. What's better than CW2 and borrows from PF:E, is a move away from tiles system, with a switch to every single pixel being a specific point in space. Different units also have different sizes and shapes, which is the most like PF:E. But in PF:E every visible part of ship had it's reason to be there, with "armor" being more important, which allowed for units like "hammer" i think it was called, that was mostly a bunch of armor in front of the ship, meant to block enemy. Here, at least weapons/modules do matter and different units have different amount of weapons on them, but it feels like they're just glued to a random sprite of which shape/looks doesn't matter much, only for where you can put it. PF:E also had a cool, super-easy to use built-in unit editor. There's no such editor in CW:IXE, I think it's possible to create custom units, but it's not as easy for sure. Pixel-based space also makes for cool physics with liquids and some of the solids which are subject to gravity. There's also a system for combining certain elements to create new ones with different uses (for example, water with sulfur creates acid). Campaign feels the most... cliche? cringe? corny? in the entire series. The finale is a special level where you control a single unit. It felt completely out of place and very tedious in some moments, the final battle in particular, where any anti-creeper you had made throughout the map doesnt matter at all. CW3 had a similar level where you control a single unit, but it was one of the extra levels, with the campaign finale sticking to core gameplay formula, but the mission conditions made it feel more climactic. Speaking of extra levels, CW:IXE, has very few of them, with little flavour of them. There's also map generator, but it creates in my experience very uninteresting levels. I'd say the only hope for replayability in this game are user-created missions.