geoDefense Swarm
by Critical Thought Games LLC
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Description
The Thinking Man's Tower Defense Returns!
Introducing geoDefense Swarm, the sequel to the critically acclaimed geoDefense.
TIME Magazine: Best of Everything 2009 Award Winner!!!!!!
kotaku: Sixteen Games That Make iPhone Gaming Worthwile list!
appadvice: "geoDefense Swarm is a stunning visual masterpiece!"
GamePro: 5/5 Stars "Can Swarm live up to the family name? You bet it can...Buy this game today."
panapticon: "100/100 — Quite simply a perfect iPhone game!"
IGN.com - 8.2 "Impressive"
AppChatter.com - "geoDefense Swarm is a must own game..."
AustraliaiPhone.com - "geoDefense is one of the best tower defense games, and Swarm is even better, maybe the best in the App Store!"
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.
NEW FEATURES
- Classic 'Open Field' Tower Defense Gameplay
- 30 Levels, Each With its Own Unique Challenges
- One 'Endless' Level in Each Difficulty Group - the Creeps Keep Comin'!
- geoDefense Swarm is OpenFeint Enabled - Featuring Online Leaderboards
- New Tower, new Creep, new Challenges!
What's New in Version 1.1
- Fix: Fixed bug where time sometimes went backwards or skipped (due to time syncing) and lead to hitches/crashing.
- Fix: Fixed a bug that would cause saved games to not load properly sometimes.
- Fix: When you put your phone to sleep, the game now pauses properly.
- Improvement: Upgraded to the latest and greatest OpenFeint. Better leaderboard display, ability to logon out, and more.
- Fix: You can no longer drag a connection line from a tower in the build bar.
- Improvement: Thump Towers now only "thump" when a creep is near enough, so it's easier to tell what they are doing.
- Improvement: Thump Towers impact causes a small flash on creeps so you can tell they are being damaged.
- Fix: Thump Tower range indicator reflects the actual range of their effect.
- Improvement: Thump Towers level will, on occasion, stun a creep momentarily. The higher the Thump Tower level, the more often this happens.
- Fix: Fixed bug where very large game scores would "roll over" and become negative (happened with really good players on endless levels)
- Improvement: High Scores are displayed with commas for easier reading. Any new high scores are also submitted to OpenFeint this way.
- Improvement: Increased the time before the first wave to 30 seconds so you get a tad bit more time to think about you first move.
- Improvement: Better Icon
Customer Reviews
I would love to give it five stars, but...
This game is awesome people, do not take my rating in context with the gameplay. However, the app is yet another that I will have to reinstall again later because of the open feint feature. Once one accidentally selects open feint, all of one's privacy is suddenly snached away. Moreover, there is nothing one can do about this. One is pissed. One does not want his app connecting to the Internet and sharing one's gaming information. One suggests that the app is fixed where one can disable open feint. NOW. Seriouly though, I am very displeased. Please change this soon.
Like Tower Defense? LOVE this!
There could not be a more worthy app than this for my first review. This will have you at it for HOURS trying to figure out the right combo of towers.
The selection and costs of the towers in each stage, the upgrade costs, and the tile types, are masterfully designed to warrant it's difficulty level.
The only pet peeves I have are that there's no guide to what the towers do (and the thump tower before the last update was particularly confusing), and the damage output is not listed anywhere (although the range is). With practice though, these become second-nature.
All in all, an excellent game that will keep me entertained for some time to come. Definitely worth the cost. I never played the original GeoDefense, but I'm about to go buy it right now. If this game is any indication of what Critical Thought Games have in store, I know It will be money well spent!
WAY TOO Difficult
I'm lowering my rating.
This game is awesome in every respect. Almost the perfect game.
But it's too difficult. WAY too difficult.
I even bought the original Geo Defense game for $2 to check it out. It's a lot more fun and a lot less frustrating.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I'VE TRIED TO GET PAST EVEN MEDIUM 1 AND 2 LEVELS ? AAARRRG
So Addicting and yet so frustrating.
PLEASE make the game easier by making either an option (Game Difficulty: Frustrating or Fun)
By the way, for Medium levels, Hardcore Mode is on and can't be turned off.
Just make the game fun like Geo Defense and I'll re-rate this to 10 stars.
- Category: Games
- Updated Oct 07, 2009
- Current Version: 1.1
- 1.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 7.7 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Critical Thought Games LLC
- © 2009 Critical Thought Games LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
