![]() Simon can place heal units and distract enemy towers. ![]() Now, you’ll know from your tower defense experiences that the vehicles should be toast as soon as they meet the first few towers, and that would be right, but you get to control the improbably-named Simon Lynx who runs around the vehicles carrying out various supporting duties. To do this you send a convoy of moving vehicles into each level. That’s right, Anomaly 2 is, much like its predecessor, a ‘tower offense’ game and it sees you attempting to reclaim an invaded Earth from a bunch of alien space pricks with a penchant for placing weaponised towers next to roads. Instead of protecting a route by placing defensive towers, now you are the attacker. The problem is that after a while all those sort of games meld into one big over-saturated mess and eventually everyone gets bored.ġ1 bit studios have at least attempted to revitalise the formula by changing the core mechanic behind the genre. The problem is that certain genres keep getting trotted out, and tower defense is a quick and easy one to do as it often requires no real AI, and a simple top-down view isn’t going to challenge your graphic designers. With big-budget games taking longer and longer to make, the indie scene is at its most thrivingest (shut up it’s a word now) because if you’re Sony or Microsoft you want some fucking games on your system, son! Indie games are quicker to make and there’s always the potential for a massive break-out hit such as Geometry Wars, Castle Crashers, or the monolith that is Minecraft.
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