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Galcon

Galcon - Ruler of the Galaxy

by Yan Matusevich on Apr 30, 2011 7:28:39 PM — read 5,218 times

Tested version: 1.9.13
Latest version: 1.9.13
Requires Android: from 1.6

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Summary

Intergalactic warfare? Check. Enemy starships? Check. Hardcore strategy game? Hell, yeah!

Galcon is an intense strategy that includes all of the above. It’s up to you to protect your galaxy from any possible intruders.

Find out what Galcon has got under its hood in today’s test.

 

Features & Use

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Galcon is an instant strategy game. The aim of the game is to beat your opponent by conquering all of their planets.

On the map, you’ll find around 25 planets, where units can be produced if they are under your control. The bigger the planet, the more units it can manufacture. Every player starts off with one planet and 100 units.

You’ll need to use your units to capture planets. Every planet takes a specific number of units to be conquered. This number is random and has nothing to do with the size of the planet. You can conquer your opponent’s planets in the same manner.

The game speed is really quick. Based on first impressions, it seems virtually impossible to use any strategy, but after a while you get used to the game rhythm. The game may be simple to learn, but pretty difficult to play.

Winning this game takes a lot of thinking and effort. If you don’t manage to produce enough units, you won’t be able to stand up against your opponent’s attacks. Defense, defense and defense – it’s very important to keep your planets safe before attempting to launch an attack. The worst thing you could do is send all your units to one plant. That’s basically a suicidal strategy to use. Flexibility is key here and you have to make sure to split your time evenly between protecting and attacking.

With every one of the ten different difficult levels, you’ll need to take your strategies up a notch. Against Cabin Boy you won’t need to do anything complicated, but you won’t last even 10 seconds against the Grand Admiral without some serious tactics.

In the first couple of easy levels, you can see how many levels are stationed on your opponent’s planets. In the more difficult levels, however, you won’t have that option anymore.

In addition to the classical mode described above, there are also the following options:

Multiplayer Mode: Here you can play via a local Wi-Fi network or just online with other users.

Single Player Modes: In these modes, you can choose between the following difficulty levels in addition to the normal mode:

  • Beast: In this scenario, your opponent starts off the game with some units on every planet. You begin with two planets with 100 units on each one. The opponent tries to launch attacks at regular intervals.
  • Stealth: Same as the normal mode, except for the fact that you can’t see your enemy’s movements.
  • Vacuum: Forget about beating your opponent; in this mode you have to conquer as many planets as possible within a limited time frame.
  • 3-Way: Two opponents instead of one. It’s all against all, so you can’t form any teams.

Bottom Line:

I love this game and it really sucked me in. With all the different modes available – especially the multiplayer – Galcon offers enough entertainment for multiple hours. The only drawback is that you can’t combine several modes into one.
 

 

Screen & Controls

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Galcon’s control are straight-forward, but very well-designed. Just tap from one planet to another to make your units move. Select all planets at once by double-clicking. To move units between planets that are already under your control, you have to click on an empty space next to the planet to transfer your units.

Another great things is that you can adjust how many units you would like to use by adjusting their percentage in the bottom corner of the screen.

The graphics are also quite alright. Planets are strewn about a beautiful galaxy. The units are represented by colored triangles that fly whiz around from one planet to the next. The phone vibrates when units land on a planet – nice little addition.
 

 

Speed & Stability

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Quick gamespeed, no lags, and no crashes - a perfect score for Galcon!

Price/Performance Ratio

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Galcon can be downloaded for $1.99 from the Android Market without any ads. 

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Review "Galcon" from Dec 27, 2011 (Spanish)

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Market Comments

Brent, Apr 19, 2012
Horrible for US Crllular I love this game but the main reason that I bought it was to play multiplayer. When trying to sign up or chat or and it trys to take me to a web page I get an error telling me the page is forbiddin. This only happens on my us cellular network and my friends with verison are happily playing online. Concidering that multiplayer is a large part of this I feel an update should be here extreamly soon
Christian, Apr 15, 2012
Awesome SideKick reporting in to say; Buy this. You must. Beware though, it's unsupported by the developers. They abandoned the game.
Andrew, Apr 14, 2012
Wtf Bought the game it won't let me in tryed restarting my phone but it still won't licence the game. Its been an hour +
Sebastian, Apr 10, 2012
Frequent crashes, hardly any update. Screen timeout causes game to stop completely. Game concept itself is fun. Galaxy S I9000, 2.2.1
Aaron, Apr 9, 2012
Unacceptable Demanding I reconnect to marketplace to confirm i own app every time it launches. BAD.
Matt, Apr 7, 2012
Must have game still plenty of multi player action
Brian, Apr 4, 2012
Problem On my epic 4g at least when positioned in the bottom right corner each swipe to send ships changes my ship send percentage. This affects game play for me a lot
Guillermo, Apr 1, 2012
Great game for on the go! Speed/graphics are great. Definitely worth the money. BUG:% gets pressed on bottom right planets tap. Also, should optimize the app for tablets.
Shez, Mar 18, 2012
Awesome game but...... Keeps crashing on Sgs2 fix please and its a 5 star from me. (JUST FOUND OUT A TEMP FIX FOR ANYONE WHO HAS THE SAME PROBLEM, TURN THE SOUND OFF.)
Jordan, Mar 15, 2012
Awesome game! I love this game, I had it on all my apple devices I'm so happy that I can finally get it on my android. Runs great, plays hard. But during a game it won't go landscape like it can on apple devices. Update I think so
Paul, Mar 10, 2012
Awesome I have downloaded a lot of games but i always find myself coming back to this one. Great Game!!!
Goner, Mar 7, 2012
Addicted.. Played it o. IPhone forever and was happy to find it for android. Works great on galaxy nexus.
Cody, Feb 20, 2012
Great game, constant crashing Sgs2
Ven, Feb 18, 2012
Great game but avoid on Galaxy S2 Loved this on iOS and it plays well until it freezes and crashes. Didn't start crashing until refund period was already up :( Avoid if you have a Samsung Galaxy S 2.
William, Jan 30, 2012
Needs updating Its the same great game play as the iphone, but looks much worse. It looks like the resolution is the same as the original iphone res, before the update for the iphone 4's retina display. this probably is acceptable on most phones, just a bit blurry, but is really a major issue on a 10" tablet. I have also had trouble getting multi player to work. I assumed I was doing something wrong til I saw that someone else mentioned multi player issues. An update for high resolution graphics and nullity player and this becomes a 5 star.
interlard, Jan 26, 2012
Improved Other than the stretched screen on the Galaxy Nexus, this is vastly improved from the first version.
Marcoss, Jan 16, 2012
Bad ios version Strange screen resolution, and impossible to play multiplayer. I prefer GalaxIR. Galaxir allows bluetooth and online multiplayer. And a campaign mode!
StarGateWorld Inc., Jan 11, 2012
Please update I hope you port your other games on iOS to android. Phil you need to update the resolution for the Samsung galaxy nexus and HD displays. Please fix some bugs and I'd love the game again.
maiden, Dec 29, 2011
Old favorite Fun, Addictive multiplayer.
Tetra, Dec 26, 2011
Freezes. Favorite game, when it works. Wish I could rate higher, but a but too buggy. Freezes for no particular reason intermittently. Infuriating in the middle of a tense game.
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