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Defend yourself! Here comes another tower defense game on Itunes. Comets and Craters pits you against an evil alien race who wants to destroy Earth. Naturally, human kind will use a strategic line of tower defenses to stop the invading alien horde.
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I really wasn’t ready for the end of summer right now. Then I got a hold of Monster Kill from Itunes. This great Halloween themed game will have you ready for pumpkin carving and costume parties in no time. Find out in this review why this simple wall defense game does so well.
Gang Street Wars is a truly unique gaming experience. It attempts to deliver a real time strategy experience combined with tower defense. The application delivers an experience unlike any other I played.
We’ve had a lot of themes in Tower Defense games but just when I thought I’d seen all the different ways you could set the game, along comes another one. With the “Kill All Bugs” from SonicBOOM (a team on the rise) we have B Movie Monsters attacking the city.
A while ago when the first Sentinel game came out I really didn’t hear that much about it. In fact, it wasn’t until I read a review about it on this site that I decided to pick it up. From that point on I was very hooked to some of the unique elements that Sentinel: Mars Defense (now just Sentinel 1 in my book) had to offer to the very crowded Tower Defense genre.
I have to admit that I was a late joiner to the Tower Defense party. I had never played one on the computer and didn’t even know about the gaming genre until I picked up Fieldrunners shortly after it came out. Since then I’ve been hooked. In fact I’ve had to finally just say that I’m not going to get another one… I’ve got almost as many of these games as I do zombie games – and that’s saying something.
Sweetwater Defense is a fixed path tower defense game where you are charged with defending your coastal towns from a diverse range of enemies hell bent on your demise.
I am a fan of Tower Defense games and Dungeon Defense by InMotion Software does not disappoint. At first I was thinking this was a Dungeons and Dragons kind of game until I fired this baby up.
I am not a fan of role playing games so I was very happy to see that this was a Tower Defense game instead. I was also very pleased to find out that this is different from the flood of TD games on the iTunes store.
The overall goal of the game is to prevent enemies from reaching the end of the path and draining all the energy from the Dungeon King, however this is where most TD games and this game take a different path.
There is no back-story at all, just a dungeon and a pathway and “X” markers where you place your evil skeleton guys.
After loading Dungeon Defense up you are presented with four options, start, resume, credits, and help. I choose the help file and found it to be extremely adequate at explaining how the game operates by showing a video of what each icon stands for and how to build up your skeleton army. After watching the help video I was ready to jump in and defend my Dungeon King.
The game starts with a dungeon with a pathway to the King. You will have 25 rounds where you must protect the King. There are green “x” markers for you to place you skeleton army guys. At the beginning of the game you are given 200 in gold to spend on your army, unfortunately the 200 gold is only enough for two skeleton swordsmen.
There are three different types of skeleton army guys you can create, swordsmen, an archer, and an axe man. After creating your skeleton’s you can upgrade them once you have gathered up enough gold coin from killing enemies. There are no towers in this game, only green X’s on the ground where you place your skeleton army.
The place that the skeleton is placed becomes its spawn point, when your skeleton is killed it will lay on the ground until time expires and then regenerate on the green “x”. If your skeleton survives the round it will still return to its spawn point and regain some much needed health while waiting for the next round of enemies.
Upgrading your skeletons is easy as a touch that brings up a small menu where you can upgrade, revive, or sell. Each unit can be upgraded 2 times and the final upgrade grants a special ability. The swordsmen gain a double damage attack, the archers shoot fire arrows that do splash damage and the axe men appear to go into a rage but not sure what that “rage” does?
Unlike most TD games the skeleton army guys do not change in appearance when upgraded, this is something I would hope the publisher’s change because in the heat of the battle, you cannot tell which skeletons need upgrades.
After getting into the game and the enemies start coming out of the woodwork the goal is apparent that you need to protect your King! The King 
is stationary however he can shoot once he is attacked. The King’s attack is not powerful at all and one should not rely on the King saving his own rear end!
The King also has two special upgrades; you can slow down the enemies or choose haste and speed up your skeleton army. Once the King is destroyed it is GAME OVER so make sure that you surround the King with some highly upgraded skeletons once you have the gold coin to do so.
The graphics in this game are pretty good overall. This is a top-down view game meaning you are looking down into the dungeon. The game does allow for you to pinch the screen to zoom in. The characters are pretty good looking as well, they have fluid movement, and when a skeleton is killed it will fall into a small crumpled pile of bones.
Overall I would say the game is pretty fun, the fact that it is a different take on TD games makes it interesting to play and adds some different types of strategy. I think that there are some upgrades that need to be done and from the look of the game’s description on the iTunes store the upgrades are on the way. The publisher has listed that they have submitted two additional levels to Apple for approval and that they are planning on adding a scoring system.
The Good
Different take on tower defense games
Good graphics
Fun characters that are different from most tower defense gamesThe Bad
Only one level right now more planed for future upgrades.
No scoring, but that is coming in a future upgrade
Skeletons do not show that they are upgraded.
Save your structures from the mass of alien creatures in Sentinel, a new tower defense game.
geoDefense is a recently released Tower Defense game with some great vector graphics and overall polish. Now there are quite a few TD games in the app store (24 to be exact), but geoDefense is one worth your time and money.
There was a time when it seemed like every time you turned the App Store on you’d see another Tower Defense game. In fact I started thinking that the next step would be to create a TD game that was about stopping TD games from reaching the store (I own the idea so don’t try and steal it!).
But you know what? I bought them all. I think it’s a great genre for the iDevice and I really like trying out different strategies during game play. But for a TD game to stay on my phone it has to have something a little extra going for it. And, thankfully, Creeps has a lot that helps it separate itself from the group. And, yes, it’s staying on my phone.
The basic idea of Creeps by Super Squawk Software is that “creeps” are coming out of the closet (I’ll resist any jokes here) and are trying to make their way to a sleeping boy in order to give him nightmares. To stop this from happening you go into TD mode, setting up various weapons and other devices to try and stop the Creeps as they move along the path towards the bed.
So here you have the first bit that helps Creeps stand out from the pack, a funny little storyline that we can all relate to (keeping the nightmares away). To help with this is a fun graphical, cartoony look. This makes the game as fun to look at as it does to play. The images are bright and very easy to distinguish.
The weapons (or towers) are also very different, and fun. Since you’re playing a kid in his bedroom, it makes perfect sense that you’d be using items you might find in the room. So now you have things like toy laser guns for firing and glue guns to help slow down the baddies. The game even has some great accelerometer based weapons that make this game really fun. The Tornado can pick up a creep and send it back to the start.
At present the game gives four towers, each with three upgrades, and four of the “super towers”. The game also only opens certain towers during each level. This is nice because it forces you to get acquainted with each tower. No longer do you just find the few that you like and go with that the whole time.
If you’re a fan of the Tower Defense genre you’re probably already thinking that the game sounds good, but let’s take a quick look at some of the other things that make the game really fun.
In Creeps you can actually target the bad guys that you want out of the way. In most games if your guns are trained on something and another enemy moves past them, you’re screwed. But in Creeps you can switch up and take out the speedy creeps. This allows you to use your “slow down” towers in different ways for strategy.
All over the map you’ll see rocks, trees and other items that are in the way. Here you’ll have a chance to blow them away (using the targeting that I mentioned above) and clear away space for better tower placement. In fact, more bonus points are awarded if you can clear away everything, but to get those points you have to be very quick with the targeting method.
With the latest update (there are more promised) there are 16 different maps, though they’re really just different paths in two locations. These pathways might seems a little short, but the update also made everything a little bit harder and thus helped with the game play.
The levels give you different looks, to go along with the different towers, and each has a different number of Creep “waves”. There are some that are even unlimited so you can take the time to really work out your favorite placement strategies. Though, I will admit that after a while the early unlimited stages are a bit too easy. I one time left a game in a charger overnight and let the waves just keep coming all night long, waking up and finding that nothing had even gotten over half way through. Oddly enough I didn’t have any bad dreams that night.
The sounds in The Creeps are very nice and work well for the game but you can also use your own music in game. Just for fun I had to play Radiohead’s “Creep” during a game.
Play in the game is very easy as the layout of the maps is easy to follow. The learning curve for starting the game is very slight and it’s really up to you as to whether you push yourself to be challenged.
When the game first came out I wrote it off a little as being too easy (that night with the unlimited zone to blame), but with the latest update I’ve found myself going back to the game and not only finding it harder, but a lot more enjoyable as well. I’m glad to see Super Squawk is planning on keeping things fresh with the game. It’s well worth the price, even if it’s just to help keep your nightmares away, and I’m glad that this is one TD game that made it to the party.
For those still on the fence about Creeps, there is a Lite version available that will give you the feel for this fun TD game. And, if you’ve never played a Tower Defense game, this may very well start your addiction.
$2.99
