It's a great coop game which blends RTS and FPS in a nice way.

I highly recommend playing this game with friends and not alone since that would be boring.

In MP there is usually a strategy and everyone tries to follow a plan the team made up.

Say; one person takes an RPG, the rest builds turrets & traps at certain location untill everyone has enough money to start buying other stuff. (More RPGs or sniper, flamethrowers etc)

Only downside is that on the hardest levels you know you are going to win but it will still take about 30 - 50 min till you actually do, since the enemy just keeps coming and can't be demoralized fast enough. (But your defences are 100 percent sure to hold)

Iron Grip: Warlord has many good sides and the only bad thing about it is that it's graphics are a bit aged and that it's community has decreased in size since the start.

On the other hand the feel and playability are still top notch and it plays perfectly fine with a small group of friends.

I keep coming back to this in the end. It's a darn shame no one plays this, but it's really a lot of fun because it gets both Tower Defense and FPS right. Well Tower Defense not so much as FPS, but there's a fine balance between both.

The shooting parts are very solid, and the Tower Defense part, while not requiring very deep strategy, offers a nice diversion to give the impression of a fierce, ongoing battle. I say "not very deep" because there aren't a lot of buildings to choose from, though you get to upgrade the turrets. You also get to choose from a list of various weapons, and though there aren't many choices, it's a very nice touch that gives a sense of progression. The levels are also well made and atmospheric, and the way roads are laid out make battles very intense.

So, yeah, it's a really nice game that you can just hop back into just to relieve some stress, because who doesn't like to romp through a horde of invading armies like a one-man army, with a machine gun in hand? That being said, you should be aware that hardly anyone plays this online anymore, so you're pretty much buying it for the singleplayer. There are bots too, but they're not intelligent and usually get in your way. I'd say it's worth it if you can get the game at a discount.

The story behind Iron Grip: Warlord is a rather bleak one to start with: the Confederation has attacked the country of Atelia, threatening to obliterate all culture and remnants of the population. The only force willing to stand up to the invaders is the Warlord Sahrab, who realizes that the only way that the Confederation can be defeated is by uniting the population behind his flag. However, Sahrab takes an unconventional tact when it comes to rallying the people – he orders his troops to perform guerrilla warfare against the enemy in different cities until their aerial ships bombard the surface to eliminate the resistance. As an Atelian soldier, you've got to hold the proverbial fort, building defenses and fending off attacks, wearing down the enemy until they finally resort to these terrible means. In this way, the atrocities committed by the Confederation would be apparent, and the population would rise up and join the fight until the last soldier was forced off Atelian soil.

If you have a group of friends to play this game with, you should pick it up. There are few to no internet games available, and singleplayer will feel monotonous fast. However, it's a real jewel if you can provide your own people, it's simple but incredibly fun.

Incredibly fun and fast paced shooter with inventive and unique strategy elements. Smooth and challenging gameplay. This is one of the better Battlefield style shooters that has come along in awhile.

I read other reviews and was hesitant to try this one. The price was so low, I gave it a shot and I'm pleased with that choice. It's a fun game for what it does. Nothing groundbreaking but still fun for what it's worth. Something I'll jump into for a half hour or so between other games or work. As for the multiplayer, I've read that it's empty, but when I loaded it last night and jumped in, it seemed to have some servers that were populated. Guess it's just the time and the day when they'll have people on them, like a few other games out there. All in all I'm glad I purchased it.

Iron Grip Walord is a mix of a tower defense game and a fps. While the graphics arent the greatest it offers a unique type of gameplay and is also co-op. Well worth the money, I had a bunch of fun with it, wished it was a bit longer but hey I rather wish it was longer then be dissapointed with my purchase.

Free games like Nexuiz, Alien Arena, Warsow, Tremulous and others have popped up after id Software released id Tech 3 engine under GPL. This game is based on id Tech 3 and this mix of strategy and FPS is nearest similar to the game "Tremulous". You can play online or just with bots. Bots there are not stupid and they comply at the 100% its task in approaching human behavior. OK, this game has fun, but I do not know whether this is due to small amount of maps or something hidden is missing, because this game did not take me much time and become repetitive despite the multiplayer.

This game is polished, I have not met bugs. Graphic is pretty within id Tech 3. And of course, the hardware demand are minimal compared to today standards.

So, if you like games like Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena, in short Quake based games, then take it!

Iron Grip: Warlord is a relatively unique co-op tower defense game set in a steampunk world of lever-action rifles and chainguns. It's a fascinating idea whose execution has been ineptly bungled by its developers.

The problem is that it is next to impossible to get a game going online, and, unfortunately, playing online is the only way to experience this game the way it was meant to be played. Playing single-player on any difficulty higher than easy is an exercise in frustration as your AI comrades are utterly incapable to playing adequately. But finding a game online is next to impossible. There are a handful of servers, many of which aren't even running the latest patch of the game.

All this aside, the game itself is only mildly interesting. The setting is interesting but the gameplay is vapid and poorly balanced. The gameplay consists of waves of enemies that arrive in droves as they make their way to your HQ. Killing enemies gives you credits for upgrading your weapons and buying defensive emplacements but these emplacements are almost useless (especially in singleplayer) as they are quickly destroyed by enemy forces.

All in all, Iron Grip: Warlord had the shortest life on my harddrive of any game I've ever bought - lasting less than two days. Whatever promise this game had has been frittered away by a developer who has since moved on to other pastures, leaving players high and dry.

Avoid this game at all costs!

Given that the other comments described well enough the features of this game, I will talk more in detail of what I did not like about it, and there are mainly 3 things:

-the setting is too sad, a sort of steampunk-WW2 world, where your country has to sacrifice some cities in order to make its people fight together the enemy.

You are the one who has to make your own city be destroyed, by resisting the enemy attacks, and hence forcing the enemy to use air bombardments.

So you have to withstand the enemy waves, the way it works is essentially the same of a tower defence game: you have to kill bots;

- low replayability value, because this game will inevitably become boring, sooner or later, the reason being that you are just building turrets and buying weapons to kill enemy bots, and while this can be entertaining for a while, on the long term you will probably get tired of it.

There is a multiplayer too, that consists of the same 7 maps available to play with friends, but there are not many people online.

Anyway IMHO it's much better than the singleplayer.

-The developers don't update this game anymore: they are now working on some browsergames, and even though they announced a patch for Warlord more than a year and half ago, they didn't release it yet.

I hope this helps.

This game is like tower defense meet first person shooter. If You like bot these genres I think You will love "Iron Grip: Warlord" game!

This game uses ID Tech 3 engine (first came with Quake III: Arena). So graphics is not very good but not very bad. Maybe it may sound strange, but graphics and level design fits very good in to steampunk style game setting.

Game contains some story. I think it's weakest point of game because it introduced in long texts between missions. This is boring!

Also this game has coop multiplayer. I think it's fun thing. However there is bad think - that if You begin loose on multiplayer game, You almost always need to restart it because there is no way to win - game lacks same balance.

Iron Grip is a First Person Shooter that is managed like a Tower Defense game and gives you the option to quickly drop into a birds eye view of the action to purchase and place structures in your vicinity to help route enemy forces.

There are a total of seven maps but the story is the same. You and your team mates are fighting to keep your small town from being captured. You have a main outpost that must be defended. It can be rebuilt if it gets destroyed however every time it gets taken out it takes a huge chunk out of your will power. Lose so much will power and it is game over.

The invading enemy, instead of a main outpost, has a top commander. Every time you find and kill him it takes a huge chunk out of the enemy's will power.

Winning is a matter of depleting the other side's will power. You will always be the town defenders, even online in cooperation with other players.

Will power is accumulated with objects found throughout the map and enemy units killed. You can also use accumulated power to pull up a weapons shop window and instantly arm yourself with various priced weapons and upgrades.

The game is fast paced, a lot of fun, runs awesome on older systems but the thing I love most about it is that even though it was designed with online play as priority, you can still play offline, on all seven maps with intelligent AI and options for difficulty.

When you first load the game up it won't look like there's a whole lot of meat there but once you start playing you'll realize that the game is deep enough that it doesn't need to be buried in modes, mods and maps.

It's rather hard to say anything conclusive about Iron Grip: Warlord. It is primarily a shooter, with a dark and gritty steampunk setting. The graphics could be judged as outdated or amateurish, but they are consistent, the design suits the setting and they aren't too bad - what's more, it runs well, even on weaker systems. Some keywords have been thrown around, like Tower Defense and RTS. While certain elements are present - for example the main force of the bad guys is moving on pre-defined paths, and you can set up small structures (MG nests and such) on those paths - it remains first and foremost a shooter. Other than in tower defense, the attackers will always attack your structures along their way, making them resemble automatic turrets and the like from other shooters more than actual TD towers. Other than in tower defense, enemies that reach your stronghold don't disappear and reduce your life counter - they try to destroy your stronghold and stay, in case it is rebuilt. Plus, there is no fixed number of waves. Both sides have a morale counter, akin to those found in the Battlefield series, though as a bar, not numbers. It is also slowly raising while an officer is present (for the bad guys) or your stronghold is intact. One main objective is, thus, to find and kill the officer, whenever one appears. It has cooperative multiplayer, which is nice, but sadly rather empty. The demo provided shows how a typical level might look like, although enemy variety seems to increase with levels. All in all, it is a good blend of some elements of a host of other games in one shooter that can really invoke the atmosphere of a steampunk fight for survival against an oppressive force and overwhelming odds. For the asking price? A great game. Try it!