{"id":78103,"date":"2019-01-25T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/real-time_strategy_hit_swords_and_soldiers_has_just_surprise-launched_on_nintendo_switch"},"modified":"2019-01-25T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T11:15:00","slug":"real-time-strategy-hit-swords-soldiers-has-just-surprise-launched-on-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/25\/real-time-strategy-hit-swords-soldiers-has-just-surprise-launched-on-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Time Strategy Hit Swords &amp; Soldiers Has Just Surprise-Launched On Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c83817f339dfd\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c83817f339dfd\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UHcW41fjQeY?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Completely out of the blue, publisher Two Tribes has revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/swords_and_soldiers\"><strong>Swords &amp; Soldiers<\/strong><\/a> is available on Nintendo Switch. That&#8217;s right &#8211; not &#8220;coming soon&#8221; or &#8220;planned to release on so-and-so&#8221; &#8211; you can go ahead and download it <em>right now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen this one before, the game has players preparing for war on side-scrolling battlefields. You need to build your forces before engaging in a tug-of-war for gold and energy, defeating your pesky foes along the way. Four different factions are available to play as &#8211; the Vikings, Aztecs, Chinese, and Chief Meat&#8217;s army &#8211; and each has its own differences for you to explore and utilise in battle.<\/p>\n<p>We called the game &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/2009\/05\/swords_and_soldiers\">an essential download<\/a>&#8221; when it arrived on WiiWare around a decade ago, and it was still just as enjoyable several years later on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/wiiu-eshop\/swords_and_soldiers\">Wii U<\/a>. The Switch version is said to be an &#8220;improved&#8221; edition of the game, too, including that fancy single-screen multiplayer feature shown off towards the end of the trailer. Here are some more details:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><br \/>&#8211; Hilariously playable 2D action-strategy<br \/>&#8211; Includes the <em>Super Saucy Sausage Fest<\/em> expansion as free DLC<br \/>&#8211; Tons of crazy units, including berserkers, giant boulders and ninja monkeys (yes, ninja monkeys!)<br \/>&#8211; 4 unique factions with their own singleplayer campaigns<br \/>&#8211; Go head-to-head with a friend on a single split-screen touch screen<br \/>&#8211; 29 tricky Achievements<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Sns Screen 1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f6e3ecc59a25\/sns-screen-1.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f6e3ecc59a25\/sns-screen-1.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Sns Screen 1\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Sns Screen 2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d42f851a35bc7\/sns-screen-2.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d42f851a35bc7\/sns-screen-2.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Sns Screen 2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Sns Screen 3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6bc7308ccc677\/sns-screen-3.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6bc7308ccc677\/sns-screen-3.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Sns Screen 3\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Sns Screen 4\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6460c42a5a071\/sns-screen-4.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6460c42a5a071\/sns-screen-4.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Sns Screen 4\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The game&#8217;s standard price is $7.49 \/ \u20ac7.49, but you can actually grab it for $4.94 \/ \u20ac4.94 for its &#8220;first few weeks&#8221; on sale. If that&#8217;s not enough, developer Ronimo Games has also revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/swords_and_soldiers_ii_shawarmageddon\"><strong>Swords &amp; Soldiers II Shawarmageddon<\/strong><\/a> will launch on Switch on 1st March. <em>Blimey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you a Swords &amp; Soldiers fan? Are you hastily loading up the Switch eShop to download it as we speak? Let us know in the comments.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UHcW41fjQeY?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Completely out of the blue, publisher Two Tribes has revealed that Swords &amp; Soldiers is available on Nintendo Switch. That&#8217;s right &#8211; not &#8220;coming soon&#8221; or &#8220;planned to release on so-and-so&#8221; &#8211; you can go ahead and download it right now. If you haven&#8217;t seen this one before, the game has players preparing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}