We all know and love tower defense games, years and years they have entertained people. There since recently there is a tower defense game released for the Windows Mobile WVGA/VGA platform. If for some reason you don’t know what a tower defense game is, it consists of a playing field with or without obstacles where enemies try to reach your home base and do damage to it. The enemies can be fend of by placing towers on the map that has to kill them before they reach your base. One of the better games that have landed on the Windows Mobile platform for sure.
When you start the game, graduatly enemies start walking from one side of the map to the other trying to reach your base. Your building gets damaged every time an enemie enters it. When 20 enemies land in your base you have lost the battle and have failed has a supreme commander of your base’ defense. As said you have to place different types of towers in the playing field to make sure they don’t reach your base. In the case of this new Windows Mobile Tower Defense game from Color Stone Ltd you have a total of 6 different towers that you can plant down to defend your base. All towers have different aspects and do a different type of damage to the incoming enemies. Although it is not very clear what kind of damage the towers do, So when you first start playing you have to kind of mix abit and see what works best It’s abit of a shame because it can be quite tedious to find the right mix .
As you kill enemies with your mix of towers you gain more money, with this cash you can purchace new towers or upgrade excisting ones. The towers can be upgraded a total of 2 times and when you do they get a tad more bad ass graphics, think of bigger guns, more guns, bigger flame thrower and such things.
The game features 2 levels that you can play and they both bring different type of strategy to this windows mobile game. The game has 3 difficulties easy, normal and hard, the suggested difficulty is easy unless you are a tower defense veteran. In the options menu you can select music/sound effects and there is a possibility to view your high score. There is not a real option to save option for this Windows Mobile game but you can quit and resume your game later on. If you decide to start a new game you cannot resume the game you played before that.
This tower defense game is one of the best that you can find to play on WVGA Windows Mobile devices. If you have always enjoyed Tower Defense games you should definitely get it, as it is as it stands the best Tower Defense game you can get for your phone. There are little things that arent perfect about this game, like the missing save option and the unclear tower functions. These little things don’t bring the game down that much though and the rating agrees with this statement.
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