Game news It's one of the most beautiful video games of 2024! But Les Fourmis isn't just a joke… it's above all a very good mix of genres.
Published on 11/11/2024 at 12:45
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Ants is undoubtedly one of the interesting video games of the month of November. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bernard Werber. It manages to modernize and make accessible the real-time strategy (RTS) genre with impressive technique, without paying homage to the original material from which it draws inspiration. Our video test.
Engaging gameplay
It was 24 years after the first video game adaptation (also a strategy game at the time), that the book The Ants by Bernard Werber is readapted into a video game. The latter, developed by Tower Five and published by Microïds, takes up the events taking place in the first book. We play a scout ant, the 103,683rd, in a third-person perspective with a camera close to the heroine. This is not enough to involve a narrative with little impact, far from the standards of the original book, but is combined with an innovative gameplay proposition for the genre.
In fact, Tower Five wants to twist the codes of RTS by offering a formula where we move away from the classic top view of games of the genre. In Les Fourmis, it is the ant who is the mouse of our computer. During tactical and strategic missions, the player must constantly move to different locations. Building bases, giving orders to her legions or even activating military power: the heroine is also involved on the battlefield! And to control each antenna of our character, the exploration missions proposed by the title are ideal. We tell you more about all this in our video test, at the top of this article.
A very accessible game for the genre
Beyond the effective principle of transforming the ant into a mouse, the game opens the doors to real-time strategy in several ways. The single-player campaign, lasting around ten hours in a straight line, is peppered with tutorials of all kinds. They are always welcome and each time allow you to understand a new mechanic. Descriptions of features are always accessible, which allows for catch-up lessons at any time. Only the menus, of which the bare minimum has been delivered regarding the artistic direction, make the learning process a little dull.
Tower Five first developed Les Fourmis with an audience uninitiated to RTS and an audience primarily playing on consoles in mind. It must be said that real-time strategy had its heyday, and is still trying to have it today, on PC. The desire to export to consoles is felt well, with a pleasant handling of the controller.
Of course, it is also the technique of the title and its photorealistic graphics which contribute to making The Ants a very good game and a good end-of-year surprise with its release on November 7 on PC, Xbox Series and PS5. An analysis that we do in more detail in our video test.
