Description
Voted "Best Tower Defense Game"
- Slide to Play, perfect 4 out of 4
“Star Defense deserves your download dollars."
- IGN Editor’s Choice Award, 9 out of 10
“Star-Studded... Gorgeous visuals and equally fine-tuned play”
- Pocket Gamer Gold Award, 9 out of 10
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What's new in 1.3:
- Players of Star Defense and Star Defense Prelude can now directly challenge each other and compete in online leaderboards on Nova Cratos
-Compatible with OS 2.2.1 and OS 3.0
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Star Defense
...The Universe is in Your Hands
Created exclusively for the iPhone & iPod Touch.
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Use multitouch to spin and zoom entire worlds in Star Defense, the highly-anticipated strategy title created exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. Maximize your recon and plan carefully – each planet has unique pathways to protect, weapons to deploy, and enemies to overcome.
Survival depends on your ability to respond to the S’rath invaders in real time and build a mixture of towers that counteract all known alien units and resistances.
Once you’ve mastered taking on the S’rath, put your skills to the test in Challenge Mode and compete against your friends over Twitter, Facebook, or email.
New 3.0 features allow you to send challenges directly to your friends via the Plus+ network.
PRODUCT FEATURES:
• POWERFUL ARSENAL – Build your defenses from 5 classes of towers, for a grand total of 15 different weapons, each with their own unique attributes, firing ranges and reload frequencies.
• MULTIPLE MODES OF GAMEPLAY – Defeat the S’rath in Campaign Mode or compete against your friends in Challenge Mode.
• ASYNCHRONOUS MULTIPLAYER ACTION – Battle your friends over the Plus+ network or via Twitter, Facebook, mail. Check out scores posted by other Star Defense players and take on their challenges by using the in-game Twitter challenge log or by searching for #StarDefense on Twitter.
• EXPLORE AND SECURE THE UNIVERSE – Defend 7 breathtaking worlds, each with its own distinct path layout, enemy types and immunities, and weapon choices.
• MULTIPLE LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY – Choose from Easy, Normal, or Hard difficulty settings for the challenge level that is right for you.
• EARN MEDALS AND COMMENDATIONS – Collect over 20 Medals and more than 30 Commendations by accomplishing specific feats on the field. Earn points in the Plus+ network for every achievement unlocked.
• UNLIMITED REPLAYABILITY – Go for the ultimate survival record and pit your skills against an infinite number of S’rath invaders.
• BREATHTAKING 3D GRAPHICS – Stunning graphics and 3D worlds – this is tower defense like you’ve never seen it before!
• PLUS+ ENABLED - Add friends, access online leaderboards, earn gamerpoints and Direct Challenge other Plus+ friends
What's New in Version 1.3.1
- Players of Star Defense and Star Defense Prelude can now directly challenge each other and compete in online leaderboards on Nova Cratos
-Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
-Compatible with OS 2.2.1 and OS 3.0
Customer Reviews
Same old TD, new skin.
Any previews of Star Defense were kind of exciting, I'll admit. Once I bought and played it, I had underestimated the detail of the planetoids on which you wage war. The textures and creep models are pretty impressive and some of the level design has a very Super Mario Galaxy creativity to it. Everything runs smoothly, a nice spacey scene revolves around your planet (even though its the planet that revolves in space, but its all relative), and the presentation and interface is all very neatly packaged and professional. However, the nuance of three dimensions did not last.
Once the "new game smell" wore off, I realized that all that three dimensions were doing, was hiding the fact that this was just a plain ol' tower defense. All the maps are pre-pathed ones (ones in which there's a road that creeps follow), towers are the same ol' towers, and creeps are just... well... I'll get to creeps in a minute. Granted, it all looks nice for a smooth iPhone game, but somewhere along the way the mechanics get all jumbled. First, towers.
As far as tower defense games go, towers stay pretty true. There's your machine gun, missile, slow etc. And while Star Defense doesn't fix what's not broken, they don't venture from the original slew. This isn't a flaw, it'd just be nice to see some variety, especially when the last tower is just a souped up version of the first.
Because you're on a sphere (or cube) there's no grid system. Placing towers requires a certain meticulous nature of making the most of a planet. While that may be ok to require of the player, there's no real way of telling when you're making a bad placement decision. It's not even that apparent to experienced players. This can get frustrating fast. On to creeps.
Creeps are... creepy looking. And that works. Each creep has a certain attribute as always (except for that first nooblet creep out the gate that doesn't pull any fast ones on you) whether it be speedy and weak, or slow and sturdy. And then there's the resistances, which should really be called immunities. This causes the player to always keep a variety of towers on his/her planet. If you go all flamethrower and they send you fire immune baddies, game over. However, we run in to balancing issues pretty quickly. While the last tower available is the strongest, and wipes the floor with most creeps, those that are immune to it will likely be the ones that slip past you. And since there's a tower cap, you have to decide how to pepper your planet efficiently. It gets a little annoying.
User interface, I'll touch briefly upon, is fine. One problem though. Unlike Fieldrunners, where you view a radial menu expanding from the tower you've selected, you get a box menu that always appears in the same place. This would be fine if your planet is always in the same place... but it's not. I've often sold a tower on accident just because my tower was right where the sell button appeared when I tapped it. Frustrating as all get out.
Overall, the game is repetitious. All planets are prepathed, there's just an aesthetic variance from one to another. There are added achievements but they aren't very special or hard to achieve, they just urge you to play the game for hours on end. Star Defense is like Pepsi; new look, same taste (whether that be sour or not). Ngmoco has done better.
Wow. This is simply incredible.
I've played MANY tower defense games on the iPhone (funnest among them - up until now - being Geodefense and Field Runners).
What ngMoco does with this app is literally (well, actually: digitally) create a whole new world of tower defense AWESOMENESS.
The graphics are simply incredible. I've seen NOTHING like them on any other iPhone game. The soundtrack is aurally delicious; just wait till you pipe this game's sounds through headphones- WOW! And, above all, the gameplay is executed marvelously. I'm seeing hour and hours (and hours) of StarDefense delight in my immediate and far future!
I showed this game to my buddy (who, by the way, does not generally care for tower defense games), and he was BLOWN AWAY! I almost had to fight him to get my iPhone back.
Anyway, this is day #1 with the app, and in case you can't tell, I am VERY pleased. The honeymoon's going to last a LONG TIME with this sweet app. I can't wait till our (mine and this sexy app's) 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration!
Thank you, ngMoco, for once again setting the standard on not just iPhone games, but on iPhone games DONE SO RIGHT!
Great game!
I've played dozens of tower defense games on the iPhone, this one is by far the best. 3d level design works great, though this game would get 5 stars if it didn't crash as often.
- Category: Games
- Updated Sep 04, 2009
- Current Version: 1.3.1
- 1.3.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 58.8 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish
- Seller: ngmoco, Inc.
- © 2009 ngmoco, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
