While there have been some good top down tower defense offerings in the last year or two, I haven't seen very many 3D TD games that have piqued my interest. That changed as soon as I saw this game— right away I was getting Defense Grid / Sol Survivor vibes, both games I enjoyed thoroughly. A friend and I quickly purchased it and went through the entire campaign.

Does it live up to my expectations? I can easily say yes. The co-op campaign was a lot of fun. The game has full maze building mechanics with a mix of tower defense elements and RTS elements via a ship you control. The range of towers and abilities is fairly diverse and I certainly find myself adapting my build and overall strategy as I tried out different towers. This is further expanded by the upgrade system, which lets you and your co-op partner specialize. In our game this lead to me building tower arrangements and my co-op partner developing units and upgrading his ship. With a good number of maps, all of which vary both aesthetically and with their layouts, the overall game offers a lot of room for experimentation.

It does have it's problems though. It certainly lacks some of the lasting appeal that I found in Sol Survivor, even in co-op, the story was very bland (and the fact that the enemy who ruins the protagonist's life is an alien species called "Xenos" was not endearing to me at all giving the general political climate of past years, but I digress), and the final level was a tad anti-climatic. Aside from that the only other problems I had were just nitpicky such as difficulty tuning (I personally found the game to be a bit lacking in challenge) and perhaps some tuning on abilities and towers, but none of these issues were detractions from the enjoyment I got out of the game.

Overall this was an enjoyable TD that has filled the void where there has been a relative lack of 3D tower defense games coming out.

While there have been some good top down tower defense offerings in the last year or two, I haven't seen very many 3D TD games that have piqued my interest. That changed as soon as I saw this game— right away I was getting Defense Grid / Sol Survivor vibes, both games I enjoyed thoroughly. A friend and I quickly purchased it and went through the entire campaign. Does it live up to my expectations? I can easily say yes. The co-op campaign was a lot of fun. The game has full maze building mechanics with a mix of tower defense elements and RTS elements via a ship you control. The range of towers and abilities is fairly diverse and I certainly find myself adapting my build and overall strategy as I tried out different towers. This is further expanded by the upgrade system, which lets you and your co-op partner specialize. In our game this lead to me building tower arrangements and my co-op partner developing units and upgrading his ship. With a good number of maps, all of which vary both aesthetically and with their layouts, the overall game offers a lot of room for experimentation. It does have it's problems though. It certainly lacks some of the lasting appeal that I found in Sol Survivor, even in co-op, the story was very bland (and the fact that the enemy who ruins the protagonist's life is an alien species called "Xenos" was not endearing to me at all giving the general political climate of past years, but I digress), and the final level was a tad anti-climatic. Aside from that the only other problems I had were just nitpicky such as difficulty tuning (I personally found the game to be a bit lacking in challenge) and perhaps some tuning on abilities and towers, but none of these issues were detractions from the enjoyment I got out of the game. Overall this was an enjoyable TD that has filled the void where there has been a relative lack of 3D tower defense games coming out.