Common Sense Media Review
By Chris Morris
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One of the best tower-defense games gets even better.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 12+?
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Fieldrunners 2
What's It About?
Players select a defensive unit from an armory and place it on the field to deter oncoming enemies from reaching their base. Those units can be upgraded and made more powerful using coins earned for battlefield kills -- or sold if they're judged ineffective. As players earn more coins for defeating levels and stars for bonus missions, they can purchase new weapons on subsequent levels.
Is It Any Good?
The original Fieldrunners was the cream of the crop among tower defense games. Simply put: Fieldrunners 2 is better. The game modes are plentiful. The graphics are incredible (especially if you have a Retina Display screen). But best of all, the game doesn't follow the cookie-cutter tower defense formula. Simply creating a choke point isn't enough, especially on high difficulty settings.
Enemies know how to space out. And they know how to dodge. It takes this from a tower defense game you play on fast forward most of the time to one that requires your constant attention -- not that you'd be able to rip your eyes off of it anyway.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Play board games like Stratego or chess to teach the importance of strategy.
Encourage kids to be fiscally responsible and thoughtful when budgeting money they receive as gifts, allowance, or from working. Sites like Tykoon are a great place to start.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : hypothesis-testing , strategy
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- Release date : July 19, 2012
- Genre : Strategy Games
- Publisher : Subatomic Studios, LLC
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.1 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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