After playing the first game, Defend the Highlands, I had to buy this immediately. This is one of games that enjoys being a game. The campaign is hilarious, the skirmish mode is really fun, and the characters are ridiculous (in a good way). I played this during the Early Access phase… which to their credit I did not realized until I began writing this review. The game is a solid play. I did not experience any technical issues. I did buy the game crazy cheap but the current $10 tag is appropriate. Compared to the first game this is way cleaned up. The battles, though still funny, are often very battle-like (i.e. your turnip shooter looks more like a machine gun than the last game which was clearly shooting turnips). I would actually enjoy seeing this developer make a Civil War, WWI, or WWI game. Or maybe a Defend the Highland from SPACE! Oh man that would be so awesome! Anyway it’s a fun little game that I would recommend if you want to mix up from your library a bit

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Story: Hilarious campaign. It is not a serious “change your life” kind of story. More or less its just about having a good time.

Replay Ability: The game has a skirmish mode which allows you to replay. I played the skirmish mode more than the story. I just wanted to keep trying different tactics. The enemy is funny enough that you’ll run into a few ‘wtf moments.’ Like when a bunch of Nuns are being shot by Abraham Lincon or Samurai getting hit in the head with whiskey bottles.

Graphics: The graphics are perfect for the game.

Sound: The voice acting is great. The music is awesome.

Achievements: The achievements were relevant to the game play and did not force you to use multiplayer.

A silly RTS game, defend the highlands from all sorts of stereotypical nationalities. But in World Tour you can take the fight to them. Make sure you have enough oats for porridge
https://youtu.be/Tq_pm42Qlhc

Pished me pants laughing and used that to upgrade my porridge cannon, the deadliest weapon in Scottish history besides mooning

Soundtrack (music + voice acting): amazingly Scottish & funny
Storyline: hilariously crazy (first mission is to invade France because they refuse to build a haggis factory by the Eiffel tower..
Gameplay: classic and smooth point & click RTS mechanics packed with comedy
Graphics: good, well furnished 3D characters and environment, explicit and smooth animations, just right for my laptop.
Early access: as stated in their description, the only thing missing is the multiplayer mode they are planning to implement when they get enough backing from us.

So, get yourself well prepared for venturing forth into this satirical story of world domination :
1/ Find a pair of tartan trousers and put them on with no underwear
2/ Cut off both leg parts up to the fly and make a hat and a shoulder plaid out of each
3/ Well done! you are now wearing a kilt and a full Scottish outfit
4/ Dye your hair with a can of IRN-BRU to add even more credibility
5/ "Cruachan!!!" (that used to be my clan's battle cry)

10/10

Pretty good mix RTS and tower defence with lot of humor.

If You enjoyed Defend the Highlands then you are guaranteed to enjoy this as well. It's pretty much the same game, but with some fantastic new weapons, and friends and foes, set in various countries around the world. It's great fun playing on levels that feature the Eiffel tower Sydney Harbour bridge and lots of other famous landmarks.

For anyone new to the games, it is Tower Defense meets Real Time Strategy, but done in a way that is just different enough to any other game of this type that you might have played. For people who are easily offended by nationality stereotyping and occassional offensive language then perhaps steer clear, but for anyone else who actually has a sense of humour and likes their humour just a bit on the 'wrong-side', they will find much to make them smile/laugh. There are a few times where I caught myself thinking "Did I just hear that right?".

IMPROVEMENTS

- I think overall the upgrade system is better, and you notice much more the positive effects of your upgrades.
- level design is good, with a great variety requiring you to evolve your strategy as the game progresses. I thought level design was good in the first game, but it seems to be even better this time around
- No bagpipes - well there are a few, but you no longer need to have your scotsmen play bagpipes to summon more Scotsmen. Now you attach your men to a large gear which spins a fan creating an updraft which Scotsmen can parachute down. The more Scotsmen you attach to the fan , the faster it goes, and the faster you get recruits. While the logic of this is crazy - it is a much better game mechanic, and means you have more scotsmen available for deploying on the battlefield (and you will need them).
- New weapons/gadgets are all fantastic. They really add to the gameplay and are quite diverse. It would spoil the game to go into detail about what these do, but they really do give you a lot to play with and try a number of different approaches. I still found the turnip gun & porridge cannons to be my primary weapons, but I had to experiment with strategies for using the new weapons to help me to get through the more difficult levels.
- Animation and model quality is better this time around. It was adequate in the first game (but still hilarious where you were laughing with it, not at it) , but you can see a real improvement in this game.

BAD STUFF

Nothing ! I love this game. However there were a few bugs noticed, and as this game is in early release at the time of reviewing, I will detail them for the benefit of the developer.

- Scotmen pathfinding - sometimes a scotsman will get stuck behind a barrier, usually if there are other scotsmen nearby, ie. in his path. This happened often enough to notice but not often enough to really ruin the gaming experience. Happens when in really close proximity to other scotsmen. Mostly seemed to happen against the sandbag barriers.

- Some levels have quite high terrain, and the camera can be difficult to control when you move over the high areas. Normally the camera stays zoomed out at the level that you have set with the mouse wheel, but on a high point the camera would suddenly zoom in too low, and so you would have to zoom out again. The result - as you pan from high to low and back again, and vice-versa - the camera starts behaving like a yo-yo. On some levels like Vesuvius I think it would have been helpful to let the camera actually zoom out a bit further, because it gets pretty close to the ground when you are hovering over your factory on this level.

Thats about it really. Most times I was too frantic trying to build up my defenses to notice anything. You end up playing the game zoomed out quite far, however there were still times when I had time to zoom in and watch the animations which are hilarious.

Took me 10 hours to get through the whole thing, and I think that is awesome value for a game of this price. Don't wait for it to go on sale, I highly recommended to anyone who enjoys tower defense/RTS games, and it should be a certain buy for any fans of the first game. Don't let early release put you off. This game - minus a few bug fixes - is completely playable from beginning to end.

A funny game for the first thirty minutes, but after that, it just got old.

Decent tower defence RTS game. Very funny with the types of units. Easy achievements too. Recommend for the price.

The game's idea is fun and the game mechanics are not completly bad but you see the inexperience in the development, for example in the management of the zoom in the playing field: should be easier and faster to allow for better control over the game action.
The graphic is poor, i don't enjoy it.

Defend the highlands World tour takes everything that was right about the original and improves upon it. it's a fun wee game indeed and as a Scotsman I think it's a blast :)
looking forward to see what else Kilted Camel has up his sleeves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmbo1D90fsY

good XD