Want tanks? Light, rapid-firing units? Long-range bastards with huge sniper cannons? Decide, then arrange your route so that your particular convoy is at its most effective.
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Pretty much all of your units are combat-ready, for starters, and if you have enough of the game’s absurdly-named resource (something like Caraseum or Caesaereum or Cheesecakeum, but probably not that last one even if it does sound delicious) then you can buy new ones or upgrade old ones on the fly. This is where things get a bit more interesting.
In short, it’s typical tower defence, only you’re playing the runners rather than the towers. If you want them to head back to an earlier area, you’re going to have to turn them around using a couple of other roads. The only real rule is that your troops can’t go backwards. Between A and B is a big long maze of roads and roadblocks, lined with towers of different kinds, and at any time you can pause the game to change your convoy’s path. Your job is to get a convoy from A to B (or sometimes to destroy particular towers or complete other little objectives, but shut up and stop being pedantic because we’re assuming they’re all at B anyway). In case you didn’t play Anomaly: Warzone Earth, here’s how it works: you directly control the Commander, a little chap in a suit of spiffy powered armour. They even approach sequel development in different ways: while Anomaly goes the “usual” route of taking roughly the same game but trying to improve on what came before, the Sanctum devs went for making a very different beast with the same rough genetic structure.īut it’s Anomaly we’re talking about today. There’s Anomaly 2, a game which reverses the usual mechanics, as you control a squad making its way through a maze of towers, and Sanctum 2, a game which mixes up the building of towers and mazes with FPS blasting.
Alas any chance of fun provided by the four-player co-op is rendered null and void amid dull shooting mechanics, lacklustre presentation and relentlessly repetitive gameplay in a game which could have been mindless entertainment, but falls way short of the mark.It’s an interesting week for fans of slightly unusual tower defence games because we’ve got two slightly unusual tower defence sequels. Worth picking up as a curio for anyone keen to experience the origins of the platformer perhaps, but only just.Īnother nail into the coffin of the film tie-in sees Barney, Gunner, Caesar and Yin Yang (aka Sylvester Stallone and friends) doing exactly what they do in The Expendables movies, namely: shooting lots of enemies, making scenery explode and all the while spouting the kind of hackneyed dialogue that everyone thought went mercifully out with the 1980s. However, as a re-release of the NES version first released in 1987 the game is less junior, and more geriatric and so perhaps unavoidably rough around the edges and particularly short of content. Being a nimble ape his journey to the top of the tree means more vine swinging than barrel leaping, but in essence gameplay remains faithful to that of the original Donkey Kong. The tables are turned as Mario, presumably sick of having oil drums hurled at him, has taken the troublesome Donkey Kong captive, cue the eponymous Donkey Kong Jr.
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