Crop Circles 2 - Tower Defense Game

Crop Circles 2 is here. New version of tower defense game Crop Circle from Glow Monkey arrived. It contains some new weapons and features.

In Crop Circles 2 is 1 big difference from previous version. Aliens contains acid blood, and your weapons can be damaged after hit. You can also buy new types of weapons to stop attacking aliens. Now you can choose from these weapons:

• Jeep with Machine Gun is simple weapon with good rate, but very cheap. After upgrades it can be powerful.
• Tank has a good damage and average range, but it is not very fast weapon.
• Electric Shock has a good damage but small range.
• Rocket Launcher is weapon wit very good range, average speed and good damage.
• Flame Thrower can attack on mere enemies at once with fire. It has a splash damage, but very low range.
• Ragging Bull is special weapon. Farmers free bull and he will attack all enemies an his path, until he died.
• Landmines can be placed on path. It is good weapon at the end of the path, when aliens break all defense. After explosion they dismiss.
• Stealth Bomber kills all enemies on the map in case of emergency. But it is very expensive.

For standard weapons there is still possibility to upgrade they basic features: Damage, Range and Rate more times. There is new possibility to repair damaged weapons.

Crop Circles 2 has the same standard game engine like in previous version. In the background there is playing classical music. You can choose from more weapons and repair damaged weapons. Playability of this game is improved, but you must check and repair damaged weapons during the game. You can choose from 4 difficulties.

Crop Circles 2 is an average tower defense game. It has good idea to moving paths points to edit you map at the beginning of the game. It has also improved playability from previous version. I am giving this game 5.5 from 10 points.

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Crop Circles - Tower Defense Game

Crop Circles is simple tower defense game from Glow Monkey. You must protect farmers from attacking villages.

In Crop Circles has unique idea of editing maps. At start of the game you can move crop circles, joined together by paths, to create way for attacking aliens. You must protect your farmers from, because they want to eat their brains. Along path you can buy weapons to stop them:

• Jeep with Machine Gun is simple weapon with good rate, but very cheap. After upgrades it can be powerful.
• Tank has a good damage and average range, but it is not very fast weapon.
• Rocket Launcher is weapon wit very good range, average speed and good damage.
• Flame Thrower can attack on mere enemies at once with fire. It has a splash damage, but very low range.
• Landmines can be placed on path. It is good weapon at the end of the path, when aliens break all defense. After explosion they dismiss.
• Stealth Bomber kills all enemies on the map in case of emergency. But it is very expensive.

For standard weapons there is possibility to upgrade they basic features: Damage, Range and Rate more times. They can be also sold.

Crop Circles has standard game engine with annoying background music average graphics and clear controls. The game has an average playability. It is important to design crop circles to strategic positions ta the start of the game. Then there is no problem to play this game with minimum effort.

Crop Circles is an average tower defense game. It has good idea to moving paths points to edit you map at the beginning of the game. I am giving this game 5.0 from 10 points.

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Overlord II - Tower Defense Game

Overlord II Tower Defense is simple tower defense game from The Codemasters Software. It is advert for new game Overlord II of this company.

In Overlord II Tower Defense you have to protect your tower from attacking revolting villagers. To do that, you can buy 4 types of minions with 3 types of weapons:

• Brown Minion can fight with Club or Sword or Mace. It is the cheapest minion with low damage and average speed.
• Red Minion can attack with Ember, Fireball Blast or Firewall. It has average damage but it is slow.
• Blue Minion can fight with Water Puddle, Poison Splash or Ice Blast. It has low damage, but it slows enemies.
• Green Minion attacks with Claw Slash, Spin Slash or Atomic Bomb. It has a splash damage.

There is no standard system of upgrades, you can only buy better weapon for each minion. All minions can be sold.

Overlord II Tower Defense has standard game engine. I had a big problem to find how to upgrade your minions. There is no possibility of standard upgrade, you can only buy better weapon for selected minion. An average graphics and poor sound don't make this game so interesting. The game engine has also problem with speed, while there is more attacking villagers on the screen. The playability of the game is poor. It is good to prefer quantity over quality while buying minions.

Overlord II Tower Defense is poor tower defense game. It has no sauce. It needs a lot of improvements to make this game playable. I am giving this game 4.0 from 10 points. I hope that Overlord II game, is much more better.

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Dinohunters - Tower Defense Game

Dinohunters is simple tower defense game from Kuma Games. It is attempt to make tower defense game with dino background idea.

In Dinohunters you had teleported 20 dino's eggs from another world. Now you protect your vehicle from attacking enemies. They are varying from dinos to army vehicles to flying saucers. To protect yourself you can buy these weapons:

• Pitching Turret is the cheapest weapon, with low damage.
• Laser Turret is better tower with low damage, but good rate.
• Rocket Turret is weapon with good damage but low rate.
• Beer Hornets attacks and slows standard enemies, not planes and vehicles.
• Teleporter is special weapon. It teleports enemies to death trap. Unfortunately it functions only for limited time.
• Gravity Generator is very powerfull weapon and it slows enemies.

All weapons can be upgraded more times and sold. You can also earn experience points and you can use them for buying special spells:

• Temporal Anomaly can freeze and improves damage of weapon for limited time.
• Emergency Sponsors gives you 500 credits for buying better weapons.
• Pteranadon Strike call air attacks that will kill all enemies at the field.

For me was only usable second spell. More credits are usable in each time.

Dinohunters has standard game engine, with standard controls. It has a little bit problem with placing of new weapons near existing ones. It will always switch you to upgrade mode for older weapons. The graphics of the game is an average and sound effects are poor. Bigger problem is, that playability of this game is not very good.

Dinohunters is average tower defense game. It has no sauce. I didn't find good feature of this game. I am giving this game 5.0 from 10 points.

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Villagers Tower Defense - Tower Defense Game

Villagers Tower Defense is simple tower defense game from coolbuddy.com. You must protect your main building in the village from incoming enemies.

Villagers Tower Defense is standard tower defense game. You are playing on the city map. There you can build your towers to protect your main building. You can build these towers:

• Simple Tower is the cheapest weapon, with low damage and attacks all ground enemies.
• Moving Tower is medium damage tower with moving ability. You can move it by double click on it.
• Air Tower attacks all air enemies with medium damage.
• Kamikaze attacks all ground enemies in kamikaze style with great damage. But it also destroys itself during attack.
• Slowing Swamp mud is slowing attacking enemies.

All weapons can be upgraded more times and sold.

The game has standard game engine, with standard controls. It has some new features like kamikaze and moving towers. The game engine has average graphics and average sound effects. It also contains inline help. Playability of this game is average. It has a lot of levels. You can continue on the next map after finishing previous one.

Villagers Tower Defense is average tower defense game. It has some good features but playability of this game is average. I am giving this game 6.0 from 10 points.

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GemCraft Chapter Zero - Tower Defense Game

GemCraft Chapter Zero game next version of GemCraft Tower Defense Game. Creator of this game GameInABottle.com created one of the best online tower defense games I have ever played.

GemCraft Chapter Zero is very addictive game. You must play many maps in many modes to win this game. And I am sure you will be happy to do that. I spent with this game many days to finish it. Fortunately the game has very good support for saving games. You can save game locally in spots, or you can also save game to the string code and use it it on another computer. This is a good system while you are playing this game on more computers.

Basic idea of the game is similar to GemCraft Tower Defense Game. You must protect your wizard building from enemies. To do this you must build towers and on these towers you can buy gems of various colors and level. Each color has some improved feature. These gems you can also combine to create gamy with more upgraded features and more power. Main target of the game is to gain Gem of Ethernity. This is hidden in the last map and you must use 7 gems of grade 7 to gain it.

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As I said before the game has complex level system with many maps. You start at bottom of the maps screen and after finishing map in basic mode you can continue to the nearest maps above. The map is divided to 5 sections. To continue to the next section of the map you must finish last map in the Arcane Mode. Standard maps can be played in many modes:

• Normal Mode you must kill all monsters in the game.
• Sudden Death Mode you will lose game if some monster reach your wizard tower. Your wizard must to have level 8.
• Endurance Mode you must survive as long as it is possible. Your wizard must to have level 16.
• Heroic Mode is like Normal Mode with +20% of monsters, +40% of monster hit points and 2 additional waves. Your wizard must to have level 24.
• Swarm Mode is like Normal Mode with +60% of monsters. Your wizard must to have level 32.
• Time Mode you must kill all monsters before time runs out. Your wizard must to have level 40.
• Bleeding Edge Mode is like Normal Mode with +60% of monsters, +80% of monster hit points and 4 additional waves. Your wizard must to have level 48.
• Carapace Mode is like Normal Mode with +100% of monsters, improved monsters armor, reduced speed and 6 additional waves. Your wizard must to have level 56.
• Arcane Mode is like Normal Mode with +80% of monsters, +100% of monster hit points and 8 additional waves. After finishing last wave you must kill Arcane Guardian. Your wizard must to have level 64.
• Beyond Corruption Mode is like Normal Mode with +100% of monsters, +150% of monster hit points and 10 additional waves. You have at start 6 gems of grade 5. Your must finish the final map.

There are also secret maps in the game and they are visible only after fulfilling some conditions.

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While playing the map you can :

• Gem Bomb has more possibilities:
  • You can attack enemies straight with gems.
  • You can also use it on the small buildings and you can possibly find the lost amulet on the map.
  • You can bomb infested building except main monsters building.
  • You can also bomb blockers. They prevent you to build towers or traps in the game.
  • You can bomb wave progress bar to increase number of incoming monsters in the selected wave.
  • You can bomb 3 gems in the row with the same grade to change their colors on the gem bomb color.
• Mana Pool increases mana.
• Build Tower you can buy and place towers on the strategic positions in the map.
• Create Trap you can build traps on the monsters path.
• Create Gem, you can choose grade of the gem to create. They can be used for:
  • You can place them into towers.
  • You can place them in the traps.
  • You can use them like gem bombs.
  • You can combine them to create higher grade gems with improved features.
  • You can insert them in the shrines to do some special actions.
• Combine Gems create higher grade gems with combining existing ones. Gems also extends features from their ancestors.

To use these possibilities you must have enough mana. Mana you gain from killing enemies.

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After finishing map you earn experience points. When you earn enough points your wizard will be upgraded to the next level. And he also earn some skill points. They they can be used for buying some new or improve existing skills. Each skill has 10 levels. You can buy these general skills:

• Enhanced Pool more maximum mana in the pool at beginning of the map.
• Focus more mana in the pool at beginning of the map.
• Flexible Pool decreases mana spell costs.
• Tower Builder decreases towers build costs.
• Trap Player decreases traps build costs.
• Trap Specials more powerful features for the gems placed into the traps.
• Armor decreases banishment points for monsters reaching your wizard tower.
• Readiness decreases time of the gems deployment.
• Replenish increases mana score per kill.
• Forge decreases gem crating and combining costs.
• Violent Explosions increases gem bombs damage.
• Stunning Explosions increases possibility to shock monsters with gem bombs.
• Piercing Explosions increases number of monsters damaged by gem bombs.
• Dual Gem mastery increases damage for two components gems.
• Pure Gem mastery increases damage for the pure gems.
• Prismatic Gem mastery increases damage for 8 basic components gems.
• Resonance increases damage for all gems.
• Recharge increases firing speed for all gems.
• Turbulence increases maximum damage for all gems.

You can also buy these skills to improve specific color gems:

• Critical Hit Mastery improves yellow gems.
• Mana Gain Mastery improves orange gems.
• Bouncing Mastery improves lime gems.
• Shocking Mastery improves cyan gems.
• Slowing Mastery improves blue gems.
• Poison Mastery improves green gems.
• Armor Piercing Mastery improves purple gems.
• Splash Mastery improves red gems.

It is clever to improve such skills, they are usable for the next map. When you know which colors of the gems you can buy in the next map, you can improve these gems with help of skills. Your earned skill points you can reorganize before the each map and play mode.

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GemCraft Chapter Zero has a very nice graphics and good sound effects. The game engine is an excellent. It has many key shortcuts. Knowing them you can play game more effectively. It is very complex game with so many possibilities, but all controls in the game are clear. It has many maps, with 10 play modes and to finish this game took weeks or months. You can also earn and find lost amulets in the game.

GemCraft Chapter Zero is very complex and addictive tower defense game. It is but very well designed, and it has an excellent playability. I can only recommend this game to all players. I am giving this game 10 from 10 points.

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