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Special Tactics – Action Game Review
Special Tactics is a Action/Entertainment/Strategy game from Beast Mode Games LLC, first launched in 23rd July 2015.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 165+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Special Tactics Stand Out
Special Tactics brings the most intense, tactical-action experience to iOS through killer gameplay, streamlined controls and carefully crafted maps. Select your custom loadout, plan out strategies and accomplish your objectives.
"If you're a fan of strategy games, this is one you definitely need to keep on your radar" – Peter Willington, PocketGamer.co.uk
"This game is really, really good…I'm having a BLAST" – TheGameHuntah
Special Tactics is very accessible but with immense, tactical depth:
- use Smoke Grenades to block line of sight
- choose a Bomb Site to raid or control
- set up Sniper points
- get up close with Shotguns and SMGs
- pick your Boosters carefully
- complete your objective
[Supports iPhone 4S, iPod Touch 5th Gen, iPad 2, iPad Mini 1 and up]
-=FEATURES=-
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Best In-Class Combat Mechanics and Damage Models
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Best In-Class Controls based around "Focus Points"
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Epic 1 vs 1 PvP (Special Tactics Online)
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Unlock Custom Weapons and Attachments
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Intense Survival Mode with Tons of Replay Value
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Real-time online matches (no waiting for opponent)
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Objective-based: Bomb defuse and Bomb plant
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5 main classes: Sniper, Shotgun, Assault, SMG, Shield
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4 Boosters: Range, Armor, Damage, Speed
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6 Equipment: Smoke, Frag, Flash, Fire/Incendiary, Throwing Axe, Sonar
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8 Carefully Designed Maps
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Collect trophies to rank up from Recruit->Masters
-=TECH=-
- 60 FPS and super low input latency for A6 chips and up
- Robust, non-cheating AI
- High performance Path Finding
- Full Game Center integration for Networking, Matchmaking, Achievements and Leaderboards
- Robust iCloud Sync for your purchases, stats and progress
- OpenAL spatial sounds (awesome with headphones)
- Native Retina resolution for all devices (including 6, 6+)
- Smooth 3D character animations
-=Beast Mode Games Studio=-
- small indie studio focused on killer engineering and design
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Special Tactics is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th January 2020
Recent improvements include:
Taking full advantage of iPhone's beautiful screens!
Download & Availability
Special Tactics is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Special Tactics on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
It is a pretty good app, the strategy and logic is amazing. You should take off the price though. There is one setback, there isn't a lot of people on the multiplayer.
Overall the game is awesome, but we can hardly find an online match. Maybe an advertisement for the game would help you bring more players.
This is one of the best games of 2015-2016. We bought the full game shortly after getting it and it was totally with it. We love the tactics and strategy and would totally recommend it to anyone.
This game is amazing! The only thing that could make it better is more players! We think it has amazing potential, 100% recommend and the best part is… ITS FREEE. So you might as well get it.
This game is probably one of the best mobile games we have played. Buying pro was defiantly worth the price. Some new game modes would be nice and there are few people on multiplayer, other than that, this is a great game.
This game is legit, it is so much fun and is addicting as hell. Its so worth the time spent on it. It passes time so fast.
We love this game so much. But we can't play it anymore. Any time we try to open the app we get stuck on the logging into Game Center screen. We don't know why it's doing this but please fix it.
Endlessly tries to log in, can't play, all other apps work just fine, iPhone 6s Plus.
99% Unplayable.This is the first, oh-so terrible review we've ever sought out.The reason is obviously pointed out.Bye.
This game is one of the best phone games we have ever played. It has a really good fast-paced strategy system, that lets you plan your moves, but also makes you think on your feet. You also get a lot of content for free, and even though we hardly ever spend money on games, we are considering getting the Pro pack because of the amount of effort the developer put into the game. We would definitely recommend this for anyone who enjoys strategy games.
There are very few games like this one and as an rts fan it makes us happy to see that even mobile gaming is catching on.
Good game once we get hang of it.
The game is a top down squad based strategy game and their are 5 types of units Shotgun, SMG, Assualt, Sniper and Shield (Pro pack only). Anyways the game has its interesting moments though we have two major complaints that need to be addressed in this review. 1. Chapter 8: Once you beat chapter 7 you will be taken to chapter 8 and oh boy this one will have you in a real hissy fit once 15 enemies are breathing down you're neck in a map with little room to maneuver. 2. Matchmaking: Since this game has a Painfully small player base it Will take multiple attempts to even get into a online match.
Very fun and difficult strategy game. Doesn't get boring and the background music keeps you on your toes.
Definitely a great turned based strategy game. If you're a fan of Advanced Wars or Counter-Strike this is def the game for you.
Just multiplayer can be hard to get into a match.
The interface is way too cluttered.. The gameplay isn't interesting enough to deal with it.
One of the best games on the app store and it deserves more downloads. The puzzle/strategy of the game does not confine you to one solution unlike many other games of this genre. It does contain micro transactions but the stuff in it is actually worth your money and is not a consumable (cough, cough) candy crush. This is by far the best mobile game we have played and hope to see support for this game and future updates.
Great strategic game; however, the matching sequence is poor. (we.e newbie vs. Prestige players).
Tactical strategic multiplayer that's smart and customizable. Seriously, well done.
We can say how much we love this game but our only complaint is that to access a large part of what makes the game fun (we.e different guns, 2/3 of the single player, and a class) you have to pay $4.99 we understand that they need money and we're fine with that but it makes it unfair when in multiplayer those who don't want to spend money and can't get better guns because of it go against a guy with the best guns.
Awesome turn based strategy! Single player is meh. Multiplayer is good. A few tweaks and it would be 5-stars.
This game is one of the best apps we've ever downloaded to our phone. The graphics are pretty good for a phone game and the strategy is very fantastic. The only thing we think should be better is maybe lower the price of the pro pack 1 or maybe have a sale for the pack.
This game makes you think about what you want to do and how to do it there's no one strategy to beat all strategies. You can win just as easily as you can lose.
Fast past, strategic, tactical and easy to learn. Top three most enjoyable game apps we've had, and we almost didn't get it! We're not much of a game player (only had clash for 2 months) but we love strategy and tactical games. This is the perfect mix. Not a money or time sucker at all. First app review we've written we like it so much. Just keep adding new multiplayer maps! You guys made a great game, and that's saying something coming from us.
BA game very fun new content monthly.
Only app we can continue to play.
This is one of our favorites… We play it everyday and it hasn't bored us. However, if a player knows that he/she will loose they can exit out of the app and take no losses! We are a gold ranked player and would be in diamond by now if this wasn't a glitch, please patch it.
Fun, addicting and all out amazing love the campaign keep making more levels.
Great strategic game, a must own! It actually got us to put down clash of clans, best mobile multiplayer game out right now.
This game is a great strategy game that makes you think but is also really fun. GET THIS GAME.
One of the best strategy games we've played, it's just so realistic.
We like it a lot…would be cool if you could give your team different gear like armor or night vision goggles, etc.
It entertains you and that's the objective of this kind of games so 5 stars.
Best game we ever downloaded from the apple store. Thank u to the developers for this original game.
We thought this was a good game, you have to be tactical to win and watch everywhere it offered great gameplay for a mobile game.
Hands down the greatest game we've played on a smartphone to date. We hope to see more similar games from these developers. We were literally blown away by how good this game is.
As we said in the title this is a great game. But like most other free games there are things you need to buy to make it "better".
Whenever we're about to win someone just exits the game and they just "disconnect". They need to make it so they forfeit because it's happened to us 8 times in a row.
We're relieved that someone made this game, it's one of the only games like it on the App Store that is worth the download. We're very picky with what we try and this game exceeded our expectations. It's a very challenging online multiplayer experience with a slight learning curve (which is good), we want to see this game grow into something big.
This game is awesome. The campaign should be free and you should be able to customize the team. Like have all assault or give 1-5 star weapons/equipment for each member.
Pretty fun and addicting just wish single player was free.
We love the tension that builds through the turn by turn based combat. It's a bit of a shame how that campaign and bonuses that will help you with multiplayer cost money but we still enjoy the game and we're planning on buying it as we feel it's already free and add less so why not support them and the game you play.
This is a great game, but there are too many features that you have to pay for like different weapons and the shield class. If the extras costed less then we would rate the game five stars.
Great game overall but with one problem. The commando is supposed to be the "sniper killer" but the truth is that it is over powered. The range and damage make it impossible to even get close to the commando. You can literally fill your team with commandos and trap the enemy at their spawn. There has to be a nerf to the weapon because people without pro pack will never be to win against the commando.
Addicting fun game! The fact that you can purchase weapons is awesome and made us play more frequently. The only thing that needs to CHANGE is that people can "forfeit" right at the end and it makes it so you don't get full trophies or any gold. Please fix it.
We'll be playing in multiplayer, when whoops, "you've forfeited the match, +1 loss" oh ok. Now we have a 30 win 190 loss record.
Solid gameplay, but we shouldn't have to pay money to unlock 90% of features that should be included by default.
Like shi*. Too difficulty to be able for play offline.
This game has bad balance so when we play multiplayer we always lose we've lost 12 times and won 2 times.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 22
- Size: 209.34 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Beast Mode Games LLC
Last updated: 28th January 2020 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Beast Mode Games LLC