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Anomaly Warzone Earth HD Review: Reverse Tower Defense Game Is Loads of Fun

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Tower defense games are a dime a dozen in the app store, which is why I was surprised to see a new tower defense game rising in popularity in the iPad app store.

It turns out, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD is not your average tower defense game. Instead, this app takes your traditional tower defense strategy and turns it around, putting you on offense.

Instead of stopping invaders, you are the Earth’s only hope and you need to guide your troops through a maze of streets full of alien towers intent on destroying you.

Anomaly HD Review

Anomaly Warzone Earth Battle Mode

Gameplay

The game play is pretty straightforward. You start by setting up your troops course through the streets which are teaming with various enemy towers.

You can choose your course based on the abilities of specific alien towers and to collect alien minerals to build cash and upgrade your troops.

When you are in the firefight, you can use special weapons like a smokescreen, decoy and more to trick the aliens. You will be tapping on the repair icon often if you play anything like I do.

Anomaly Warzone Earth Choose Your Route

Anomaly Warzone Earth Choose Your Route

There are a number of levels and skill levels to bring enjoyment to users of any skill level. Unlike many games which hit a wall early on, requiring you to re-play levels to unlock the game you paid for, Anamoly flows smoothly.

As you advance, you can upgrade your troops to take on harder to defeat aliens. Early levels only need set and forget routes, but as you take on harder challenges you will need to set up new strategies as you go. Accessing the route tool, upgrade store and special powerups is easy to do without getting in the way of gameplay.

Value

After playing the game on the medium difficulty setting for an hour last night I wasn’t tired of the mechanics or the strategy, which says a lot for a $4 iPad game. You can also purchase an iPhone version of Anomaly Warzone Earth for $2.

Recommendation

If you are a strategy gamer who loves tower defense games, but is sick of always being on defense, this is the game for you. Anomaly Warzone Earth HD is the most fun I’ve had for $4 in years and is easily worth the asking price.

Anomaly Warzone Earth Demo

Anomaly Warzone Earth HD Gallery

6 Comments

6 Comments

  1. Anonymous

    08/16/2011 at 3:18 pm

    well said

  2. Murphy

    08/16/2011 at 3:28 pm

    nice game…

    gadget device

  3. Anonymous

    02/03/2012 at 1:49 pm

    I just picked up Anomaly: Warzone Earth for Android as part of the current Humble Bundle, and I’m very pleasantly surprised. This is a fun game and a refreshing twist on the tower defense genre. I’m particularly impressed by the crisp graphics that do a great job of creating an effective mood. So far the voice work is also better than I would’ve expected for a mobile phone game.

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