Up to this day, the iPhone has constantly been proving itself as an effective game medium. Although there are some who would say otherwise, it has become quite the casual game platform of choice. Even Nintendo is recognizing its prowess and has deemed it an even bigger competition than Sony or Microsoft. Interestingly enough, the people who also make games for the hardcore crowd are cashing into the viable iPhone market and are now releasing spinoffs of their own games (such as Capcom’s Resident Evil series) or completely new IPs. Highborn is the latter and it is made by the folks over at Jet Set Games.
Jet Set Games is actually comprised of people who have worked on the original Command & Conquer games. This includes the co-founder of the PC game developer Westwood Studios, Brett W. Sperr. The company established in 2008 is situated at the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Highborn is first and foremost a strategy game. It gives you a bird’s eye view of a board game like interface wherein you get to explore the map within a predetermined number of steps. You then attack enemies such as undead skeletons and take over forts. Direct attacks are animated in 3D and you get to see your troops attacking the enemies automatically.
As you can probably guess, Highborn is more of a casual strategy game rather than a micromanagement RTS. You will have a total of 9 campaigns opened up for single play, the real fun comes from connecting to game sessions with friends and having some friendly competition. You and your Facebook friends may battle it out with the use of a 3G connection or the ol’ faithful Wi-Fi connectivity.
With its wacky set of characters, a total of eighty memorable heroes and comical game assets, Highborn is a very charming game to check out if you like social networking based multiplayer games.
