Anomaly Defenders is the final game in the Anomaly series and it sticks to its tower defense roots. Anomaly Defenders comes from 11 bit studios out of Warsaw, Poland. They are the guys behind all the other Anomaly games and they have done an amazing job with the series. For the first time, the user will be playing as the Aliens while humans are launching their counterattack against the alien home-world. It’s the best scenario playing as the alien race and defending the planet from the human scum of Earth.
Anomaly Defenders gameplay is straight up tower defense and for the last game in the series this game has some really good polish. The game revolves around putting towers down on a maze that is already pre-built with different levels of towers with different attacks. All of the towers are upgradable and there is 8 great towers, some of the betters towers than others and the game has balancing issues when using them against the attacking forces.
The campaign has 24 missions and each of them have different mazes for the humans to attack and they also have environmental damage like meteor showers that can damage the users towers as the enemy is attacking. During the course of each mission the user will occur technology points that can unlock items in the tech tree such as; Functions which is where the user can upgrade the repair function which branches out to other things that can boost the performance of the users tower. There is Towers where all of the towers can be upgraded by different level and each of them shows the details of each tower.
The whole match revolves around the humans attacking the aliens so that they can get to their Hive and if they destroy it the game is over and the user will have to rethink their strategy on how to better defend against the battle of waves. In order to upgrade the units the user will need to harvest resources with the harvester which can be upgraded to house more carusaurum which is the main resource in the game. There is also energy that can be used during each match to repair, explode, or shield towers.
Anomaly Defenders has really basic controls and they can be all configured in the settings most of the time the user will be using the mouse and the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the camera at a faster rate. The graphics for Anomaly Defenders will run very easily on most systems and the art direction looks beautiful very nice change in the color pallet with dark and bright levels. Some of the levels have some of the better art design that i have seen in the series the level of polish really shows in this version of the game with all the attention to detail to items in the level such as the objects on the ground and the towers themselves.
During the course of playing the campaign the game ran at a solid 60 frames a second with the settings maxed out and HD 1080P is nice when the game doesn’t have the hiccups like other games does on PC. I feel that Anomaly Defenders has moderate replay ability with their being 24 levels and so many different ways to defend against the humans. There’s no multiplayer in Anomaly Defenders like there was in previous versions of the game and I’m glad that it’s just single player due to the higher level of polish being in this version of the game.
Final Verdict:
Anomaly Defenders is an amazing tower defense game with a lot of polish and is a lot of fun to play. The game has some minor balancing issues when dealing with battling the human race but other than that this game is beautiful and is a blast to play if you’re a fan of the genre and or the series.
Overall Score: 8.7 / 10
RGN Rating: Silver Game
Developer: 11 bit studios
Publisher: 11 bit launchpad
Available On: Windows PC | Mac OS X | Linux
Played On: Windows PC
Review Copy Info: A digital copy of this game was provided to RealGamerNewz for the purpose of this Review.