I love Cortex Command. It’s one of my favourite indies ever. The current build of this brain-defending, bunker-building, robot-deploying, side-scrolling tactical digging and shooting game means that it has a tonne of interesting scenarios you can set up and play, but currently the campaign (which I’d jumped into to take a look at) is a bit completely broken. Cortex Command has been out in “work in progress” beta form for about 47 years, but there’s been a bit of progress of late, and so I’m hoping we’ll see that campaign built upon soon. Nevertheless, for those of you who’ve not played this yet – and you really should have done by now – there’s a free (and sadly harshly limited) demo on the site.
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Cortex Command Is Still Unfinished, Amazing
By Jim Rossignol on October 18th, 2011.
Cortex Command
By Jim Rossignol on April 23rd, 2008.
Travesty! I’ve just realised that we’ve never linked to the utterly superb bunker-architecting side-scrolling four-player battle game Cortex Command. Luckily IndieGames.com feature page averted this catastrophe, and I can link you guys to the demo.
Cortex Command is a 2D base-building game in the vein of Worms, only with robots piloted by disembodied brains and giant bunked filled with electronic death. (Also the astoundingly detailed pixel-art and physics makes Worms look a bit like it was made during a sneezing accident.) It does require a bit of patience, however, so take your time and experiment. This one is highly recommended.
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