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- Price: Purchase $0.99 to buy
- Operating system: iPhone OS 2.x/3.x
- Date added: September 17, 2009
- Total Downloads: 671
- Downloads last week: 34
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on September 23, 2009
GeoDefense Swarm is an extremely challenging open-path tower-defense game. Swarm is the follow-up to GeoDefense, an already very challenging fixed-path tower-defense game that debuted earlier this year and quickly became a favorite of genre fans. Like its predecessor, GeoDefense Swarm stands out for a unique play-style that mixes frantic arcade action with bang-your-head-against-a-wall puzzle-solving. Aside from the new open-path format, GeoDefense Swarm has much in common with the original GeoDefense, from its psychedelic vector graphics to its drag-and-drop interface and the same selection of upgradeable towers (GeoDefense Swarm adds a sixth tower, the Thumper, which deals damage in a wide area). You're still destroying a set number of waves of geometric "creeps," all with differing health and speed, and GeoDefense Swarm occasionally mixes up the playfield with obstacles and squares that have special effects such as healing and speeding up creeps.
GeoDefense Swarm again features 30 levels separated across three difficulties--Easy, Medium, and Hard--and you can still choose Novice Mode if you want to play without posting high scores. Because of the more open-ended possibilities of the open-path format, the level design of GeoDefense Swarm doesn't feel quite as tight as the original, and you might find yourself having to experiment even more to find winning strategies for the game's constantly evolving maps and enemy configurations. Depending on your personal preferences, this can be a feature or a bug, but GeoDefense Swarm is definitely more difficult than GeoDefense. Newcomers to tower-defense games may find themselves struggling, and unfortunately the game doesn't make learning the rules easy, revealing only incremental tips at the start of each level and piecemeal hints after losing levels. Still, GeoDefense Swarm is a solid, impressive game, an excellent value, and an especially satisfying title for tower-defense power gamers.
Publisher's description
From Critical Thought Games :GeoDefense Swarm takes all the dizzying visuals, vexing challenges and addictive gameplay from the original, and changes the equation - instead of defeating creeps along a pre-defined path, geoDefense Swarm challenges you to use your creativity, building mazes for the creeps to navigate across obstacle-laden open levels.
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Version: GeoDefense Swarm 1.0.5
"Good open-ended play, but challenging"
Pros: This is a good iPhone implementation of a tower defense game--not overly complicated with saving money to invest in research for example. You can get straight to the game play.
Cons: Maybe I'm just a lousy gamer, but I would have appreciated more beginner levels. It's nice that you can play in non-challenging mode, but I found the learning curve steep.
Summary: This is a good variation on tower defense games, a good combination of real-time adrenaline and more thoughtful strategy.
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Version: GeoDefense Swarm 1.0.5
Pros: Hours and hours of fun
Cons: levels get hard - fast!
Summary: An excellent game, that provides hours and hours of fun - though levels can be very tough and frustrating.
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