Military victories are the most common way to win, but this is often because the Queen has to put herself in harm’s way to defend or attack players nearing one of the other victory conditions.Īs you can imagine there’s a lot going on in a match at any given time, but Killer Queen Black manages to keep players feeling like they’re in control even when chaos reigns all around them. Enemy players will always be waiting for her to make a mistake, and if she messes up three times it doesn’t matter how well the rest of her team is doing. Her versatility comes at a price though constant vigilance. She can also dive bomb enemies from above, making her far more lethal than any of the other units. Unlike workers the Queen can’t be upgraded, but she starts out able to fly, dash, and attack right from the start of a match. Workers and soldiers can (and will) be killed frequently with little penalty, but the player controlling the Queen has to be more careful. It’s important to keep an eye not only on your own team’s progress, but how far the other team has gotten in achieving their goals. Alternatively, riding a slow-moving snail from the center of the map to your side of the screen will result in a Snail victory. Economic victories can be won by retrieving berries from around the map and bringing them back to the base. A Military victory involves killing the other team’s Queen three times in a match.

Players can choose just one of these goals to work towards, or can devote different players to attempting all three simultaneously. Games are played between two squads of four players on either a blue team or a gold team, and the goal is to win a best-of-five tournament by achieving one of three possible victory conditions: Military, Economic, and Snail.

Both versions are played on a single screen, and it usually takes longer to describe how to play than it does to just jump into a match and figure it out for yourself. Both the original release and Black share similar rules, with only a few changes made for the home game. Killer Queen is one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master titles which thrived in the early days of the arcade.

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