Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Joining me tonight is our regular panelist, my PC Games and colleague, Fraser Brown.

Fraser, welcome to the show.

Hello.

And we also welcome, I think, for the second time to Three Moves Ahead, Mode 7's Ian Hardingham.

Hi, Bob and Fraser. Thanks for having me. Oh, our pleasure.

Today we're going to be talking about Frozen Cortex, which, and already begin to stumble over it

because easy description begins to fail me at this point. Once upon a time, Frozen Cortex was sort of a

future sci-fi robot football type game,

or at least that's how it seemed initially, and it was called Frozen End Zone.

But in a controversial decision, it was renamed Frozen Cortex, and its rules evolved to be quite a bit different than a traditional North American football,

and it's become just a very

tactical future blood sport, I would say. So we'll begin unpacking what Frozen Cortex is over the

course of this conversation. But, you know, before we, you know, before we dive in, I think I will

have Fraser tell us a little bit about how the game works and what he thought of it.

Okay, so if any of you listening have played Frozen Synaps, the kind of core concept, quite similar, where it's all about the planning phase.

So you've got two teams of five handsome robots,

all playing a sort of American football analog, and you create plays for them just by dragging

out waypoints across a map and around little obstacles, little walls that dot around the pitch.

And then you can kind of extend timers on them so they'll stand still for a little while or

maybe run after a certain point. And then you just kind of press play and see how it plays out.

But the trick is to anticipate what your opponent's going to do because you don't see them take their turns.

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