Castle Frenzy ($1.99)
Version 1.0.8
REVIEW – “Perhaps the best looking and most entertaining tower defense game I have ever played.”
For me tower defense games are fun but can get boring rather quickly as you simply sit and watch to see if what you placed as far as defenses was good enough. Not with this game you not only get to choose your defenses but you get to tell them when to come into play and your main weapon is your very own finger.
Before I even get started on gameplay I feel the first thing that needs to be mentioned are the graphics. They are amazing for an iphone, they are not only 3D but very artistic and colorfully done. I was impressed by how they seemed to get so much interactive detail into a game like this especially when I have seen other apps and games fail to do half as much.
Now onto gameplay. As I said before your main method of defense is your finger, what does this mean? Well when you start the game you have nothing but your castle which has no weapons at all…except you. Your first attackers will be mere goblins, to kill them and keep them from reaching your castle simply flick them into the air and watch them fall. If you prefer you can drag them up high and drop them but this is a bit more time consuming and harder to do when you’ve got half a dozen goblins on the screen heading for your castle.
You earn money for each troll you kill and at the end of each level you get to visit the shop where you can buy fortifications, a hydra to eat your enemies, magic to blast them or freeze them away, or even a statue to crush them. As the game progresses you get more and more options of how you can defend your castle, and each one is more amusing to watch than the last. You can even purchase upgrades just in case you feel like your hydra needs another head or two.
As the game moves forward you also get stronger enemies which take more effort to kill. One of my favorites are the goblins riding the wild boars. Simply lift the goblin off the boar and send him flying to his death. The boar will then turn around and run home killing all of the goblins that he meets. This is great for clearing large mobs on the screen. You will also get enemies that take a little more than a flick of the finger to kill and they do not need to be right at the castle gate to attack it. This makes the game get very interesting very quickly.
There are 10 campaigns in all but each one comes with multiple days that you have to survive so don’t think that this game is over and down with quickly. The final day of each campaign comes with an extra challenge for those who like to go above and beyond merely surviving.
Speaking of surviving, the game also comes with survival mode. This is not for the faint of heart as there is no learning curve here. You need to know how to kill all the enemies you encounter as there is no help or suggestions. Survival mode works just like campaign mode in that you fight in days and at the end of each day you get to shop. The only difference is that any health you lose to your castle stays gone, even if you purchase better forifications you will still not gain back the health that was lost. It is an interesting twist and considering you face off against some of the harder enemies without any sort of defences (until you are given the option to shop after day 1 anyway) it starts off somewhat tricky as well.
If you haven’t figured it out by now I love this game. I honestly was worried I would not get this review in on time because I continued to play it so much once I discovered it. The sounds, the characters, gameplay and graphics are all superb but then I was expecting as much from a big developer like gameloft. For the amount and quality of the game you are getting I think that $1.99 is a great price and well worth it.
-Stephanie S.
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Developer – Gameloft
URL:www.gameloft.com
DEVELOPER NOTES
Discover one of the most addictive castle defense games on the App Store: now with amazing 3D graphics!
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It’s fast.
It’s fun.
It’s highly addictive!
Looking for a game to let off steam?
Feed the dark elves to the hydra, make warlocks explode against the fortress, drop a giant troll on a goblin squad, smash elves to the ground, shake away skeletons, throw boars in the air, and use magical spells to petrify, freeze or burn threatening invaders!
Relentless hordes of mythical creatures are pouring out of the darkness and heading straight to your castle. With each wave, their numbers and strength grow as they get closer to breaking in!
Your fingertip will become the most powerful weapon of all as you draw a zigzag on the screen to throw lightning or a trace a V to trigger a tornado!
Challenge your friends online to beat your achievements on Gameloft LIVE!
- 10 TYPES OF INVADERS that interact differently with one another and require different strategies to defeat
- 18 STRATEGIC UPGRADES: Buy a fireball or hydra with money earned by killing invaders
- 23 ACHIEVEMENTS to keep you entertained for hours
- ONLINE COMMUNITY: Compare your achievements and chat with your friends on Gameloft LIVE!
- FULL 3D graphics in a beautiful medieval fantasy world for total immersion in the game
- A progressively harder CAMPAIGN mode and an infinite SURVIVAL mode with adjustable difficulty
- ACCESSIBLE to both right- and left-handed players
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