Comments on: Defending Everything But Your Time

Defending Everything But Your Time

blahblahblah — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:53:56 -0800

Rails of War is a terrific flash game, where you equip a train with ever-increasing combinations of weapons and guide it through various missions. It is a representative of the growing number of Defense-style flash strategy games started by Tower Defense and friends, which we discussed before. Now you can try Age of War, where you try to destroy an opponents base through five distinct eras; Invasion Tactical Defense where you must manage a nuclear missile plant and its anti-aircraft defenses; the inevitable and previously mentioned zombie defense games; StarCraft FA5, where you are the Zerg defending your base; and the lovely and abstract Red. These is a particularly addictive class of games, so be warned...

By: betaray

betaray — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:04:27 -0800

I was just playing Age of War before loading this up. I can't get past the second stage on impossible. I'll have to check out the rest of these.

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:39:58 -0800

Also my ability to defend my grammar seems to have left me as the many errors in the FPP indicate. If any admin wants to fix any of these issues, so that I don't get too mocked by the Language Cabal, I would appreciate it.

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:56:27 -0800

This greatly appeals to my love of trains and stuff that blows up.

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:10:25 -0800

It also appeals to my love of secret train conspiracies. I will pretend that I am leaving Mulder in the middle of no where on a secret train car. Also: I need a faster computerlator.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:13:14 -0800

Hate to be a pail of wet sand, but hasn't the expiration date on Tower Defense games arrived yet? It's starting to become the next Asteroids/Tetris/Shanghai/Breakout/Marble Madness/Puzzloop/Puzzle Bobble.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:14:29 -0800

That is to say, a game that everyone copies, ad (infinit|nause)um.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:15:34 -0800

(Eh, ignore me. I shouldn't complain. Obviously there's still some life in the genre. My apologies.)

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:19:46 -0800

Here are some I came across recently: bloons tower defense 2 budapest defenders

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:31:27 -0800

Well, I'm not sure Rails of War can be really considered what most people think of as a tower game. Sure, you make purchases for greater defensive power. But it's on a train that moves, and you get to direct the firing of the train. Which is a lot more interactive than any tower games I've played so far. I mean, I guess it is technically a defense style game, but this game is far beyond what I expected. I expected somehow that a train had been shoehorned into the more specific tower defense area of the genera. Which is way too static for me. I find it pretty exciting. The graphics style reminds me a little of Microsoft's Close Combat games.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:34:42 -0800

also storm winds

By: AndrewStephens

AndrewStephens — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:23:21 -0800

Red is not really tower defense either, but that doesn't stop it from being awesome. 251 seconds!

By: poppo

poppo — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:47:51 -0800

IMO best of breed is Vector Tower Defense

By: Arbac

Arbac — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:06:24 -0800

Thanks .... just in time for finals.

By: onalark

onalark — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:34:08 -0800

I found The Last Stand to be very good. I also liked Army of Destruction, and if you haven't seen it, you should definitely try the Flash version of Portal.

By: ryoshu

ryoshu — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:23:40 -0800

Awesome. That was much better than I expected.

By: tylermoody

tylermoody — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:27:27 -0800

The best thing about this post is that the 'set it and forget it' amount of attention a towers game requires means that I can play all of these at the same time. *remembers playing TD in starcraft scm maps

By: feloniousmonk

feloniousmonk — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:31:34 -0800

I think onalark meant to link here for the Flash version of Portal.

By: yoyo_nyc

yoyo_nyc — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:06:54 -0800

Thermo storm

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:15:21 -0800

color wars has a "you got yer ikaruga gameplay mechanic in my geometry wars knockoff" thing going on.