It's unicorns, golems and wizards against skulls, vamps, trolls and gargoyles in Legendary Wars

As the power of iOS devices improves, previously popular genres such as castle defence and side scrollers slowly seem to lose their sparkle in the face of 3D graphics

Well, not so for debut developer Liv Games, which is preparing to launch Legendary Wars onto the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

Taking castle defence as its starting point, the developer says it's mixed in RTS and RPG elements; the latter in terms of mining gems to upgrade your castle and levelling up your characters, as well as taking direct control of them in battle to perform special moves and the like.

There will be seven races to buff, ranging from elves, unicorns, golems and wizards with over 20 monsters - skulls, zombies, wolves, vamps, trolls, gargoyles, dragons - and 10 bosses to overcome, as you battle your way through the five lands of Legendaria.

The main Campaign mode comes with 50 levels, and Liv Games promises it will constantly update the game with new characters and weapons, and eventually an online mode too.

Legendary Wars is due for release very soon. In the meantime, you can check out the website here and the trailer below.

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