Gene wars follows a similar layout to that of starcraft, and many others such as warcraft etc, which involves base building and creating a settlement and then having to launch an attack on your enemy. The game is set in the distant future, where four races have been warring for centuries. These four races are the humans (earthlings), the Saurians, the Bohemians and the Schnozzoids.
However, these four races have come under scrutiny by a force known as the Etherals. The Etherals act as space police, regulating behaviour across the galaxy.
When they find many parts of the galaxy stripped away and planets left barren, it strikes upon those it deems guilty. It captures and imprisons all four races. However, after only a short period of being imprisoned the four races are released on a sort of good behaviour term having to restore that which they have destroyed. However, using the technology given to them by the Etherals to carry out their tasks as imposed on them by the Etherals, they soon find that they have restored one of the planets to its original state. In turn the four races continue their battle in secret using Etheral biotechnology to create weapons of destruction, however at the same time trying to hide them from the Etherals.
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similar to its counterparts, it offers a unique twist to the characters it has to offer. Using the biotechnology mentioned, you create beasts of war to aid your cause to help eliminate the other races, but at the same time trying not to alert the peace-loving etherals.
Players get to use what are called Specialists. There are four specialists you can command: the Engineer, who builds your structures; the Geneticist, who studies new life forms so you may reproduce them, and also heals anything that lives; the Botanist gathers rare seeds and plants and the Ranger, who tends your animals, and can instruct them fight, eat or mate.
You will have hours of fun creating your settlement and training and producing animals to fight along your side so that you can crush the other side. The Graphics strongly support the game play and the sci-fi sound effects make the game that much more enjoyable and interesting for game play.
