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By Chris Morris
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Well-done strategy game about defending your base.
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Tower Defense: Lost Earth
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Is It Any Good?
The fact that the name of Tower Defense: Lost Earth has people talking more than the game is a worrisome sign, but it's one the developer brought on itself by trademarking the genre. That mini-controversy aside, this is actually a very solid addition to the category. The game is welcoming to newcomers and has a wide variety of weapons to choose from. And it offers enough modes that even genre veterans will be sufficiently challenged that they'll have fun.
The resource management portion of the game is well done and the challenge mode is particularly fun. The story in the campaign mode is disposable, though. And despite it all, there's a feeling of having been here before. Also, the fact that the developer charges $4 more for the universal app ($4.99 for the version that works on iPad and iPhone vs. 99 cents for this iPhone/iPod Touch only version) seems excessively greedy.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
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- Release date : June 14, 2011
- Genre : Action Games
- Publisher : Com2uS Inc.
- Version : 1.0.1
- Minimum software requirements : 3.1
- Last updated : August 25, 2016
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