Hive is a turn-based strategy game where you need to surround your opponent’s Queen Bee with units while keeping your queen from being surrounded. It’s a tile based game much like many others. Each type of unit you have can move in a specific way on the hexagonal-tile board.

Each player begins by placing pieces and their queen. Then you can move or add units to the board and attempt to surround the enemy’s queen. It offers single player, two player local and P2P network play. Hive also offers multiple levels of difficulty (beginner, easy, medium, hard) when playing against the computer.

While the graphics and sound in the game are fairly simple they work well for the game and it’s about the gameplay and challenge. The board is a simple hexagonal grid while the tiles all have representations of particular insects and arachnids on them. The music is just sort of background noise and neither adds no detracts to the game experience.

However, even on medium I beat the game without a problem. I don’t know that my strategy skills are all that powerful but it sure seems like the AI could use some boosting.

Overall Hive is a decent enough offering and if you’re looking for a multiplayer game for your iPhone and want something that requires strategy and thought this is certainly a game to look at. The game is like several other games I know of, but their names escape me at present.

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