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Geo Defense Swarm
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Geo-Defense Swarm is an open field tower-defense game that is difficult in a way that it makes you want to keep coming back for more. You do not want to let this game beat you, and you will not want to stop playing it until you have conquered it. It will continue to draw you in and keep your attention while you overcome whatever obstacles it throws at you. Geo-Defense Swarm accomplishes this with its highly addictive gameplay and balanced difficulty; it’s not easy, nor is it impossibly hard.
In Geo-Defense Swarm, you must protect your base from “creeps”, some sort of creature that will try to enter your base and take your health down to zero. You must strategically place towers that will automatically attack and kill the creeps as they pass by. There are a number of different towers to choose from – blasters, lasers, missiles, and more – so you can decide where to place the towers to get the most out of them. Creeps progressively get stronger and faster with each wave which require more firepower to destroy. You need money in order to upgrade or add more towers, which you can gain by killing more creeps. There are three difficulty levels (easy, medium, and hard) with ten levels each; thirty levels which all require different strategies in order to be beaten.
This game demands attention, the ability to be a quick thinker and that you be capable of planning ahead. There are two different difficulty modes – hardcore mode and novice mode. Hardcore mode provides no benefits, while novice mode will give you extra money and make the creeps weaker, but that does not guarantee easy wins. The difficulty is still fair in that you will always see some level of success, and you lose if you are not able to build a proper strategy over time. It may take a few attempts, but you will definitely feel immense accomplishment when you have finally beaten a level. If you lose, chances are you will know why you lost, and that is what keeps you coming back until you have won. Levels take time to beat, but you are given a pause and resume feature so you can pick up where you left off at any point. There’s also an online ranking system, so you can compete for high scores against everyone else.
Geo-Defense Swarm reminds me of the classic arcade games – they’re so fun, yet so brutally difficult, and yet very possible to master. If this game was made in the arcades, it would have eaten thousands of quarters, drew large crowds, and long lines of people waiting to play it. I highly recommend Geo-Defense Swarm to anyone looking for an exciting, challenging, but very satisfying tower-defense game for their iPod.
- Jason Lange
In Geo-Defense Swarm, you must protect your base from “creeps”, some sort of creature that will try to enter your base and take your health down to zero. You must strategically place towers that will automatically attack and kill the creeps as they pass by. There are a number of different towers to choose from – blasters, lasers, missiles, and more – so you can decide where to place the towers to get the most out of them. Creeps progressively get stronger and faster with each wave which require more firepower to destroy. You need money in order to upgrade or add more towers, which you can gain by killing more creeps. There are three difficulty levels (easy, medium, and hard) with ten levels each; thirty levels which all require different strategies in order to be beaten.
This game demands attention, the ability to be a quick thinker and that you be capable of planning ahead. There are two different difficulty modes – hardcore mode and novice mode. Hardcore mode provides no benefits, while novice mode will give you extra money and make the creeps weaker, but that does not guarantee easy wins. The difficulty is still fair in that you will always see some level of success, and you lose if you are not able to build a proper strategy over time. It may take a few attempts, but you will definitely feel immense accomplishment when you have finally beaten a level. If you lose, chances are you will know why you lost, and that is what keeps you coming back until you have won. Levels take time to beat, but you are given a pause and resume feature so you can pick up where you left off at any point. There’s also an online ranking system, so you can compete for high scores against everyone else.
Geo-Defense Swarm reminds me of the classic arcade games – they’re so fun, yet so brutally difficult, and yet very possible to master. If this game was made in the arcades, it would have eaten thousands of quarters, drew large crowds, and long lines of people waiting to play it. I highly recommend Geo-Defense Swarm to anyone looking for an exciting, challenging, but very satisfying tower-defense game for their iPod.
- Jason Lange
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