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4.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: APOX is a real-time strategy game that uniquely includes gameplay concepts from first-person shooters. Like in a FPS, you can prone, crouch, switch active weapons, throw grenades, and loot corpses. Soldiers in APOX have limited ammo, but ammo sharing is done seamlessly. Soldiers can be placed in vehicles, and this essentially lets you create your own unit designs. APOX keeps everything that makes RTS great like making bases, controlling strategic sites, and managing your resources. The eight missions included are designed to show basic combat and explain the unique aspects to APOX's gameplay. From there, play in one of 100 scrimmage maps against AI-controlled bots. Play with your friends against bots in co-op mode or play against other people in versus mode.… Expand

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  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 4 out of 6
  1. Gamers.at
    Feb 7, 2011
    70
    Unfortunately the wasteland-look gets boring really fast and all the Units look pretty much the same. If you don't need something like a singleplayer but large multiplayer-sessions are your thing, APOX might be just right for you.
  2. Absolute Games
    Mar 29, 2011
    45
    Despite some interesting ideas and huge ambitions of its creators, APOX is just another low-budget RTS.
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  3. PC Gamer
    Apr 21, 2011
    45
    Finding good matches is not easy in APOX's sluggish community, however, and I cannot fathom why anyone should play this instead of the exponentially better games that it tries to emulate. [June 2011, p.77]
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  1. CarpGames
    3
    Very strange game, this. I'm all in favour of smaller developers, but I can't help but get the feeling the team behind APOX got so excited about having made the basis of a game that they forgot to polish it to the point where players could derive enjoyment from actually playing it... and just released it. The whole thing just seems a long way short of ready in that rather hard to quantify way that I shall simply describe as "nothing feels right". The ammo and fuel supply systems are quite nice, but the pace at which they work just feels to slow. The complicated unit micro smacks of a load of ideas that sound cool on paper being implemented verbatim from the spec then never tweaked and battered into anything cohesive. The unit balance appears to have had a helping hand from rand(); , and the AI is very heavy on the Artificial and rather low on the Intelligence (with the former being a cheap attempt to make up for the latter). In short, avoid like the plague unless you're so heavily into RTS games that your live won't be complete without playing it, or are stuck with a choice of APOX or staring at blank wall.… Expand
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  2. monty845
    2
    This game looked like it had a lot of potential, but really there was nothing new or novel about it. Your troops can't fight there way out of a wet paper bag without your constant micro management, generally combat is not very dynamic, and oh yeah, you need to be online to due the tutorials or skirmishes against the AI, which would be a lot more tolerable if you weren't constantly disconnecting from the servers.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. Nysmosu
    2
    Promising game (well… it was); lots of flaws that make this game a bit hard to secure a place on my system. First of all; the path-finding (no offence; but it's terrible), I feel more in control of a spiralling plane rather than my soldiers on this game. Another thing which annoys me about this game is the lack of updates that it’s getting. Why bother to enforce a game (and charge people good money for it) if there are never going to be any updates/fixes towards gameplay. I have noticed quite a few bugs myself alone that are quite bad and forces me to mess around for 5minutes.The game does not support crossfire very well (stutters and crashes) at the lightest of places; this is only a problem as people with ATI cards will know that CCC shouldn’t have to be played with all the time.“Perf”, c’mon guys. What’s perf? It’s supposed to rate people’s computers from 1 – 999 yet the most powerful of computers only get around 200-300 whereas my old Pentium 4 gets 781. Does that not look suspicions? Lack of options is also a big flaw in this game. All of the soldiers on this game can’t fight without you constantly clicking madly at the buttons which doesn’t help; they just seem to stand there and be like uhhhh….. I dunno. Promising game (well… it was); lots of flaws that make this game a bit hard to secure a place on my system. First of all; the path-finding (no offence; but it's terrible), I feel more in control of a spiralling plane rather than my soldiers on this game. Another thing which annoys me about this game is the lack of updates that it’s getting. Why bother to enforce a game (and charge people good money for it) if there are never going to be any updates/fixes towards gameplay. I have noticed quite a few bugs myself alone that are quite bad and forces me to mess around for 5minutes.This game was great when I started playing it; looked promising, I actually looked forward to joining the community and also being a part of it. You know, helping people out, having good matches and also having fun. Recently though I have noticed that when me and my friends come on to play; it’s actually only us online. Is this a server issue? A bug? Probably never know. The website for this game is also terrible; people have lost whatsoever faith in APOX and I don’t blame them at all. I have even seen people mention that there’s no point in posting on here; you’d probably get a quicker response from his Facebook… Does this not show you something is wrong? Not trying to be harsh here; but not only has this game’s reputation been destroyed. But also YOURS has; as a developer I know what’s right/wrong. You can’t just shove a DLC in without mentioning anything about it or replying to owners of the game! Why would they buy another game off you when clearly you don’t show it any attention. Imagine what people are going to think next time you release a game.I know what I’ll be thinking…… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes