Reign of Swords: Episode 2 won’t reinvent a genre, but it will leave you wondering why more games aren’t made with the same artful precision as this is. Brought to you by Punch Entertainment, Reign of Swords 2 is a rock-solid turn-based strategy (TBS) game for the iPhone, and will provide you with hours upon hours of stimulation (no, not that kind) and entertainment. The game is masterfully designed, and you can really tell the game’s makers knew what they were doing. I guess they had to after producing the wildly successful original Reign of Swords, right? Well, they sure showed their stuff on this one - and made it bigger, badder, and better than it’s predecessor.

Honestly, Reign of Swords didn’t wow me at first. The premise is what you would expect from a traditional TBS game such as Advanced Wars: you have an army, and you move each unit forward and then your opponent does the same. When your unit gets close enough to the enemy’s, you attack it; it attacks back on the next turn, and so on until you’re left with a battlefield of blood and the few battered i