Happy Wars: Team-Based "Wreck the Castle" Game

Developer: Toylogic

Publisher: Microsoft Studios

Format: XBLA

Oh yes. Another great yet free game. Happy Wars is a mostly multi-player game, so you have to connect to XBL to get on it. Its like your basic choose a class and siege the castle type of game. You've got three classes: Warrior, Cleric, and Mage. You've also got three characters of each class to customize. You protect your castle, attack theirs, and build towers to respawn. Once you die, it gives you the choice to pick a different class or character before respawning you at a tower. Once you go through training, you get one single player mission and then have to go online to level up before getting the next mission.

The game gives you many options with customization and leveling up weapons and all that jazz. Theres four main options to choose from when getting more weapons or armor: Treasure map, Happy Spinner, Item Shop, and lastly, completing an online match. The treasure map is just that: A map. You check it every day to see what you get. You usually get happy stars(the game's currency), but occasionally get an item. Item shop? Simple: You buy item packs for happy tickets, but happy tickets cost microsoft points.

Then theres the Happy Spinner. This is where you spin a wheel(duh), but there are many blank spaces in between categories of the different items you could get(weapon, shield, armor, headware, or accessory), so you fill those up with bets. You bet on what category you want, and with each bet costing 300 happy stars, you get three bets per spin. Main problem with this is you might only play the mage class(because its the best one), but get a weapon for the cleric or something. Lastly is completing an online match, not winning, but completing. You get an item for whatever class you finished the match with. What grade of item depends on how good you are during the match, but not if you won.

Here's a brief description for each class and some of their basic skill sets. First is Warrior, your typical fighter. Suited with a sword and shield, their only specific use if for fighting. They can unleash a charge forward to throw a rock to stun foes. Next is the Cleric, a medic and mechanic, and most useful in the tactical parts of the game. He, wielding a club and shield, is the choice class for siege. He can make walls, heal friends, and summon materials to make things from arrow turrets to battering rams. Lastly but not least-ly(?) is the Mage(my preferred class). He, wielding only a staff, is the ranged combatant. He can shoot fireballs, summon lightning from the sky, and enchant his allies' weapons with all sorts of elemental things.

Being a person who prefers single player games over multiplayer ones, I really enjoy this game. It's the only game of it's type I've been able to get into and enjoy. Go get it on XBLA or something, 'cause its free!

The website (In Japanese):

http://www.happywars.net/

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