If not stopped quickly, they can assimilate the entire map in minutes. They’re little grey Darwinians with tiny horns, and whenever they shoot a Darwinian that Darwinian instantly becomes a Futurewinian. They descend upon random parts of the map, and could contain anything from rocket turrets that sprout twenty feet tall at a location of your choosing and nuke any approaching enemy darwinians, to the scary and Borg-like Futurewinians, who, as Introversion dev Ash demonstrated, spend a few minutes buzzing about the map in a massive UFO abducting helpless Darwinians before eventually invading. We’ll leave you to discover those for yourself.ĭepending on the game mode you select you’ll be taking and holding capture points or escorting gigantic statues back to your base, either way there will be pitched battles on the beautiful polygonal plains as you fight to secure territory, or to capture the gamechanging special weapons boxes that fall gracefully from the sky.Īh yes, the upgrades. As well as the Darwinians themselves, and the unerringly gorgeous environments, there are plenty of cheeky gaming references hidden away within the game too.
Introversion have worked hard to retain the wonderful sense of personality and self-awareness we loved in Darwinia. You’ll have direct control over your Darwinians this time around, and you’ll even be able to form them into organised units, where they’ll gain Rourke’s Drift level effectiveness with their lazers, but leave themselves vulnerable to a well tossed grenade.Įven though you direct your Darwinians instead of gently herding them, they still act like a rowdy and adorable rabble, even as they toddle towards certain death. You won’t find any physic’s based ball bearing action here, instead you’ll be leading your chosen colour of Darwinian to dominance against the other pesky colours vying for the same territory. Ok, in several very important ways it has nothing to do with pinball. In fact, if I was pushed to make a comparison, I’d say that Multiwinia, in some respects, is a lot more like pinball. But don’t be fooled, despite surface appearances it plays completely differently to the inspired strategy game that saw you guiding the angular but strangely lovable Darwinians in a quest to defeat the omnipresent threat of invading computer viruses. But it’s close enough for jazz, so read on for our not-quite exclusive thoughts on Multiwinia.įrom Introversion, the self styled ‘last of the bedroom coders’ comes the multiplayer iteration of Darwinia. We thought it was a preview, but then we learned the game had been released on the weekend of the Showdown.
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