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By Christy Matte
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Strategy and some weapons keep monsters from under your bed.
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Why Age 11+?
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The Creeps!
Parent and Kid Reviews
What's It About?
In THE CREEPS!, kids fight off ghosts, zombies, dinosaurs, and other creepy creatures trying to crawl under their bed. In this tower-defense game, kids strategize to determine which weapon or tool will stop the creeps before they reach the bed. They then release the tool -- like glue to slow the creature down or a blaster gun to kill them. Other tools that are unlocked at higher levels. Kids can connect to Game Center, but that's optional.
Is It Any Good?
The Creeps! is an excellent tower defense title. Early levels are easy enough for beginners, while more advanced levels start to present a greater challenge. It's addictive to try to earn all of the awards on each level and fun enough to replay levels at each difficulty. The game comes with 12 Survival/Endurance maps and 6 Door Buster Maps. Additional map sets can be downloaded for a fee. You can set up multiple player accounts in the game, so more than one family member can play and unlock their own content.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about nighttime fears. Have a drawing party; ask your kids to draw their own character for The Creeps! that might be based on their own worries about things that go bump in the night. Or get creative and make up stories about the ghosts and zombies and creatures being defeated by a brave kid hero.
Lots of new strategy games are based on classics that people have been playing for hundreds of years. Introduce your kids to strategy board games like chess, and see what they think.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : strategy
- Pricing structure : Free
- Release date : September 9, 2010
- Genre : Strategy Games
- Publisher : Super Squawk Software
- Version : 1.4.8
- Minimum software requirements : OS 3.0
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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