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Kixeye's War Commander brings real-time strategy to Facebook gaming

Inspired by games such as Command & Conquer on the PC, commander of the war aims to recruit a new generation of gamers on Facebook for the hardcore game genre classic. The difference is this game is as a free-to-play social, and if it takes off, it could reach a wider mass market players.

Will Harbin, CEO of Kixeye, said in an interview that the war commander marks an evolutionary step forward for the social gaming industry, because it allows fully controllable units engaged in a war in real time. While rivals such as Zynga targeted casual gamers on Facebook, Kixeye going after hardcore gamers.

"This is the strategy game the most advanced ever built for Facebook," said Harbin. "We are getting closer and closer to strategy games in real time that you saw on the PC."

The company has been successful in the past with titles like hardcore Backyard Monsters and Pirates Battle, which gave Kixeye about 4 million active users daily on Facebook. These games were real-time elements, but you could not really control your military units beyond the initial investment in the battle. You set the units on the battlefield and then watched them fight.

With the commander of war, if you click an enemy to attack your tank and your infantry fire on it. In defending your base, you build turrets to fight back the enemy.The music is fast and sounds are very good. Each unit has its own unique response when clicked.

After destroying the basis of an enemy, you can brag about. The game does not work at full speed, so you must wait for a break from time to time. The graphics are more sophisticated than Facebook games past, but they are built with Adobe Flash. This means that there are limits, as the game can not take advantage of 3D graphics hardware. Units pretty, but they are small enough on the battlefield.It is not easy, for example, to distinguish different types of infantry.

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