Insect Wars is the bee's knees
by Eric Caoili 
{ Jul 9th 2007 at 7:30PM }
We shooed Insect Wars (Konchuu Wars) away when the game's beetle-filled screenshots first flew into our periphery, believing the bug to be an uninspired pest. "Go away," we said, "and bother us no more." In our defense, language barriers kept us from understanding what the Success Corp. title was trying to communicate with its antennae and movement patterns. Having studied its habits, we found that the game isn't a Mushiking clone as we'd originally assumed, but a tactical RPG where you command an army of customizable, mechanized insects. Our mouths were agape, monocles falling from our faces when the truth was revealed. Below is a sampling of Insect Wars' creepy crawlers:
- a rifle-mounted praying mantis with buzzsaws -- my god, buzzsaws! -- for arms
- a lightning bug that terrorizes foes with its beam cannon tail
- a heavily-armored, treaded snail (pictured above) which acts as a transport for other units while healing them
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
hvnlysoldr @ Jul 9th 2007 8:16PM
It's like taking Advanced Wars, adding customizations, and slapping insects on them. Rad.
Fatass of Kickassness @ Jul 9th 2007 8:42PM
I was expecting this to be lame... from what I've seen from the video, it actually looks like it might be pretty good.
Yan @ Jul 9th 2007 8:50PM
Advanced Insects! lol a play on advance wars xD
L @ Jul 10th 2007 8:40AM
Good Lord, man! NEVER bequeath your monocle to the offensity of the ground! Shame on you! I firmly place my top hat on in disgust! Harumph!
Vince @ Jul 9th 2007 10:24PM
this looks epic. can we expect a stateside release?
GlitchCog @ Jul 9th 2007 11:39PM
That does look fantastic... except for that card in the middle. I don't want a card game. Those suck hard.
Ladyfox @ Jul 10th 2007 12:03PM
You know I could have swore I've seen something similar to this already. Oh, here it is, it's called Zoids:
http://www.pheno.zoids.org.uk/empire/ez018saicurtis.htm
http://zoidsfan.jerrystoys.com/images/emz-18.jpg
v3n0me @ Jul 10th 2007 9:46PM
yeah, thats what i was thinking, it reminds me of Zoids
-v