Field Combat
Field Combat is a 1985 video game in which the player fights as a single commanding officer in a generic futuristic battlefield. The Family Computer version of Field Combat was later released for the Wii's…
Field Combat is a shooter developed by Tose, released 9 July 1985 on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii and Family Computer.
What Field Combat is
Field Combat is a shooter game developed by Tose and released in 1985. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii, Family Computer and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The object of the game is to make it all the way to the end of the battlefield using the Genesis; a warship that can fire off missiles. While the player controls the blue forces, the player must defeat the Red forces without dying in the process by either avoiding or shooting helicopters, infantrymen, and tanks. An interesting characteristic of the game is that it is possible to ask for reinforcements from an army, which the player possesses, by pressing both the A and B buttons at the same time. Whenever the player runs out of units to aid him in battle, he can use his special weapon to "absorb" the enemies and add them to his army. The game used Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries as…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Field Combat launched on 9 July 1985, within three weeks of Ghosts 'n Goblins, Nodes of Yesod and Rush'n Attack.
Released around the same time: Ghosts 'n Goblins, Nodes of Yesod, Rush'n Attack.
Official trailer
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