1st Impressions

Space Station: Frontier is new favorite of mine. At $2.99 in the app store, this game is a mixture of tower defense and real time strategy games. Playing it reminds me a bit of game elements of those tower building games (with goo or coconuts or whatever), SimCity, and a RTS game like Warfare Inc. Basicallt, the developers have created a real winner if a game by combining some great elements if other winners.

Created by the same group that brought us the Sentinel TD games, the game is set up as a space station. Your goal is to not only defend your station against attackers, but also expand it within reach of the resources that you need to collect. The ten campagns start out with lots of help to get you started with the basics of both construction and defense. As you complete goals, credits you earn can be spent in the store for improvements. And these credits can be spent across different campaigns and game modes. As you complete campaigns, two additional game modes become unlocked.

Your game play is not over when you complete the ten campaigns. Game modes that allow for endless play and competition on OpenFeint leader boards exist to make certain that you never run out of game play. The two endless modes do not have the specific goals of the campaigns, but rather focus on either survival or mining. The longer you last before destruction or the more you can mine before destruction, the higher your can rise in the leader boards.

I found Space Station: Frontier to provide a unique blend of some favorite game genres and it makes my Must-Have list. That being said, I would like to offer some suggestions. First, some additional campaigns would be nice. I would also like to see the additional game modes to be unlocked earlier. These are small things though and there is no reason to not download either the lite or full version and take it for a spin.