After the massive popularity of their engine in Day Z and other mods Bohemia Interactive has released Arma Tactics. This game uses their existing setup to create an entirely new game in the universe. Today we want to go over the game and where we think they want to take it in the future.
Arma Tactics Itself
The game itself is a mobile game with designed for touch functionality. It plays similar to other turn-based strategy games such as Jagged Alliance. You have turns with set actions along with responses. It’s a fairly standard formula that is quite popular today.
The game also uses the weapon unlock system seen in other games. Overall it doesn’t really appear there is anything new to be seen here. Of course if you absolutely love games like this then here is yet another one.
Will Bohemia Turn the Arma Franchise into an FPS/Strategy Blend?
They seem to be centering their projects around the engine. The most obvious and interesting thing they could do would be to combine the strategy and fps aspects into one game.They would need to do this with a real-time system though.
The large maps of the system blended with deathmatch gameplay would be a perfect combination overall. They would end up with a much better game than anything they’ve ever put out.
Getting Arma Tactics
Hopefully this game isn’t a note that they will be moving to exclusively mobile games. Of course this functionality means it’s available on Mac, PC and any other computer you could play it on. You can get it on Steam if it seems interesting to you.
Our guess is that the sales of this will be to fund a future project. We just hope it’s an ambitious one instead of something that has been done multiple times.
