Thursday, September 20, 2012

Review: Kingdom Rush for iPhone


Kingdom Rush for iPhone


 
Overview:
The immensely popular tower defense flash game is now available for iPhone!  The goal in Kingdom Rush for iPhone is simple: Defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards, and other baddies in a medieval fantasy setting.

Kingdom Rush iPhone
Enemies spawn and follow a path from their spawn to your kingdom.  As they travel down the road, the player is given the ability to create towers -- each with their own unique abilities -- to stop the enemy's efforts.

Pros:
Kingdom Rush features highly strategic gameplay.  Four basic towers, eight specialized towers, eighteen tower abilities, and over thirty tower customizations give the player plenty of options to create a very dynamic tower defense experience.

Game Center is fully integrated into Kingdom Rush, giving players the opportunity to earn plenty of achievements and vie for a position on the leader boards.  in a game like Kingdom Rush, achieving a high score and being competitive with others is half the fun.

Cons:
The app size is huge to achieve the gorgeous, fully illustrated levels.  Coming in at about 150MB, you will need a wifi connection in order to get Kingdom Rush up and running. 

Unlike the flash version, and iPad version for that matter, on the iPhone it can be hard to see the units and details of each map.  I found myself squinting and wanting to always zoom in in order to enjoy the experience.  The hectic nature of the later levels can also be frustrating on such a small screen.  This is not necessarily a fault of the game, rather the device, but it impacts this apps performance nonetheless.




Average User Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Blog Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Kingdom Rush for iPhone is easily one of the best tower defense games out there.  The production quality has always been phenomenal, and the ease of which it has been translated to the iPhone makes it the perfect app to play whenever you have those few spare moments between a class (or during!), waiting for an appointment, or simply wanting to have some great tower defense fun.

-Doug
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2 comments:

  1. BartlebeOctober 10, 2012 at 6:15 PM

    Kingdom Rush is a fine tower defense game...as far as tower defense games go. I haven't seen a great deal of innovation in tower defense games over the years i've played them.

    There is something about apps, and this is especially true of gaming apps, that feels very shallow to me. I have a hard time envisioning a situation in my life where i'd be thankful I had a collection of gaming apps. In my downtime between my daily activities my time is much better spent planning for my next class, reading something interesting to me or playing srs bsns games at home.

    I also realize that apps like this aren't really created for me. They're targeting the Farmville crowd of gamers and that's fine. I'm sure this app would be a fine pick for any of the myriad of casual gamers collecting apps these days.

    Can it stand out from the competition? Does it innovate enough to set itself apart from the other Defense games? I'm not so sure.

    No accounting for taste.

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