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As I said earlier, the maps are pretty well detailed and are supposed to represent the area outside bases, twisting city streets, or swamp-like areas. Each level is a new map with new zombies to kill and new weapons to try out. The game takes place during a zombie apocalypse and is structured with campaigns and levels. I honestly wasn’t even aware of this distinction in the genre, but my limited experience allowed me to try out two totally different, well polished attempts at tower defense, and after many hours with each one, I definitely I like Fieldrunners’ approach better.īut let’s talk more about GRave Defense first. You’re not able to create elaborate mazes or even juggle the bad guys, the challenge lies in making sure you’re properly defending the huge variety of routes taken against you.

There are quite a few more entrances and exits, and monsters will take completely different routes from round to round. GRave Defense takes a different approach, the maps are already drawn out with details and obstacles, and there are a fixed number of points you can place weapons. There are usually one or two entrance points for the bad guys and then an equal number of exits, and you can lay out your defenses in whatever way you want as long as there is a complete path for them to travel on from entrance A to exit A. The maps are generally barren and set up as a grid, and your job is to maximize not only the length the bad guys must travel to reach your base, but also the firepower they’ll meet along the way. Both Fieldrunners and GRave Defense qualify, but they approach it in very different manners.įieldrunners allows you to build up a maze of weapons in whatever manner you like. I guess that would be considered the minimum to be called a tower defense game. Here’s my short reviews ofįirst of all, a definition of tower defense: defend some critical point against a horde of bad guys by placing unmoving weapons and support at strategic points. Market, and Fieldrunners is also available on a wide variety of devices

#FIELDRUNNERS HD ANDROID#

However, that is where the similarities end, and it is their differences that really define them.īoth titles are available right now for under $3 on the Android Both are easy to pick upĪnd play for 10 minutes, but are amazingly effective at grabbing you inįor over an hour. Two of those are tower defense games.įieldrunners HD and GRave Defense HD are great examples of twoĭistinct approaches at the tower defense genre. But since buying my Android phone, I’veīeen exposed to a lot of games I couldn’t imagine myself playing even aįew months ago. I’m pretty new to the tower defense genre, I missed out on the firstįew waves of games including the massively popular Desktop Towerĭefense, and first experienced it with Plants vs.

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