Attack Of The Creeps
December 3rd, 2007
Tower defense games are the shiznad these days around here. I played Attack Of The Creeps by Galago Games today after finding it on the Manifesto Games website. AOTC is quite different from The lost castle that I was blogging about last week in that you can't build new units to increase your resource production, AOTC is strictly about stopping critters, in a variety of maps, from crossing the map. AOTC starts out with some quick tutorial notes and then gets you going with an initial build phase followed by a realtime build and defense game - different from TLC which has seperate build and build/defend phases. Unfortunately, about 15 minutes into a fairly elaborate maze defense I discovered that the initial laggy cursor (how about a hardware cursor folks?) gets downright unusable as the screen fills with critters and defenses. I watched helplessly as the creeps finished me off while I was unable to really do a thing to defend - maybe an uber machine wouldn't have this problem so the game may still be for you. Another problem with the game is that the tutorial scheme will, mid-level, drop a translucent window over top of your playfield to remind you that you can upgrade towers - a handy reminder but not nearly as handy as actually being able to see the playfield... Without these failings AOTC might have got my cash as they have a very friendly $9.99 price tag - check out the game at
Galago Games.
Happy Gamin',
L
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