Comparative
Five great tower defense games for Android
By: Peter Warrior on: Feb 5, 2013 12:21:41 PM
Although tower defense games might be, on a videogaming scale, pretty new, they are perfectly fitted to grow and spread throughout a friendly ecosystem as Android is. Game mechanics are quite simple: you have to build towers and these towers you’ve built will destroy incoming enemies. Player has a passive role, because he or she isn’t able to shoot to the enemies, or even choose which enemies are attacked by his or her towers. Everything decays into an arms race when enemies are faster and take less time to cover the distance between their camp to your flag or heart or whatever you have to protect; but your towers have a better fire rate, then they have heavier armor and you have to upgrade your attack power. Game can be interrupted by casting a spell or throwing a nuke, but enemies have special abilities or immunities. Nobody knows how, but what it was expected to be a game about strategy and resources management has become a stressful struggle for survival, and a handful of indie games shaped a new sub-genre within arcade games: tower defense.
Lair Defense: Dungeon
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s Lair Defense: Dungeon. It wasn’t the first, it isn’t the most complete or the more complex. Indeed, it’s as easy to catch that we rather recommend it as the perfect rite of passage for those who want to introduce themselves to defense games. Being as easy to be learnt doesn’t mean you have enough of it quickly: at the inverse, Lair Defense offers you the chance of not only play for the dragon’s side but also tens of hours of gamepl
GRave Defense HD Free
OK, it’s fine, so thou hast raught the upper levels of Defense-ology and want more difficulty, more levels, more enemies, more towers, more upgrades, more mores and much more? You’ve made it easy. Grave Defense has it all, and allows itself to add zombies, mutants and a post apocalyptic scenery to the game. You know, world has crumbled away and you have to be there to safeguard the leftovers. Game is quite complex yet linear, paths are winding and, overall, if we have to explain what defen
AREL WARS™
What if instead of just defending ourselves we could try to conquest the enemy’s towers? And if we add to the mix something beyond upgrades and we season it with some RPG elements? If we all turn crazy and there was a plot? Moreover, be forewarned about Arel Wars’s addictiveness. It may seem to start too step by step, but don’t worry. Once all its range of options is fanned you’ll be able to add one more term to defense games unknown till now: replayability. If you still have forces to p
Anomaly Warzone Earth HD
Lastly, let’s turn everything upside-down and let’s give defense games their latest twist. I imagine you will wonder why no one had thought of it sooner, but here it goes: why don’t we attack? Not just defend and defend and defend and, when we can, attack a little and then defend, defend, defend, no; I’m talking about a merciless fight, attack your enemies without a retreat plan. Are you joining? This could be the non official synopsis for Anomaly Warzone Earth. However, it fortunately h
Tower Defense®
Bonus: We couldn't miss what it might be one of the best reinterpretations of the original Tower Defense game, in case you want to feel a TD game in all its splendor. Don't expect the unexpected, just a pure tower defense game filled with nice graphics and thrilling action. The other side of this kind of games, the freemium system to play for free but be able to purchase boosts and upgrades, is also available.
