By Jim Rossignol on August 19th, 2011 at 11:55 am.
A few weeks back I had a chance to play Paradox’s fantasy tower defence game (set in the Majesty world, for some reason) which is called Defenders Of Ardania. It was slick and solid! But also hard. The baddies totally thrashed me. I mean I was playing one of the later levels, but anyway. I suspect that it might be fairly popular when it arrives on the 27th of next month, due to the prettiness, and also the general commercial popularity of tower defence games.
Gamescom trailer below!
19/08/2011 at 12:00 Srekel says:
Oh, is this like Defense Grid but in a fantasy setting? *Goes to watch trailer*
Yep, seems so. Nice :)
19/08/2011 at 12:02 abhishek says:
How many tower defense games is too many tower defense games?
19/08/2011 at 12:08 darthmajor says:
This many.
19/08/2011 at 12:15 Ridnarhtim says:
But how many GOOD tower defense games are too many?
19/08/2011 at 12:37 nofing says:
I really like tower defense games and I’d buy some more, but it’s kinda sad, that most of em are way worse than the custom maps in Warcraft 3.
19/08/2011 at 13:12 Ross Angus says:
If only there was some way of defending oneself from the constant onslaught of Tower Defence games. Erecting some sort of barricade, for example. If only someone would produce a simulation of this, so we could practice.
19/08/2011 at 14:47 Paool says:
@nofing I always liked the original Starcraft Missle turret defense games. Can’t tell ya how many hours I blew on those
19/08/2011 at 15:26 Trousers says:
Agreed, almost none of the ones released the last few years hold a candle to wc3/sc1 TD games. Defense Grid is still the only one that I would say is as fun as Elf TD and some of the other old ones
I would probably buy 5 TD games a year if they were fun to play
19/08/2011 at 15:42 Urthman says:
Fortunately, Blizzard is making sure nothing like that happens with Diablo 3.
Wouldn’t want to people inventing 2 whole new awesome game genres by allowing them to make mods.
Has there been any new game genres as successful as Tower Defense and DOTA created since those two?
19/08/2011 at 17:05 Koozer says:
All I can think of is Last Stand for DoW II – I think it was partly inspired by all the ‘fend off waves of enemies with just your hero’ maps in DoW. I wish it was better though…
20/08/2011 at 02:00 Thants says:
Nothing like that would’ve happened with Diablo 3 anyway, it’s not that kind of game. Diablo 2 mods were much more limited than Starcraft or Warcarft 3.
20/08/2011 at 20:06 magnus says:
There’s never enough.
19/08/2011 at 12:04 Tei says:
Is this re-released? I remember reading about a similar game, but this one seems to have better graphics and real torret defense juice.
19/08/2011 at 12:04 Wilson says:
Ooh, looks pretty cool.
19/08/2011 at 12:07 Will Tomas says:
I wonder if Paradox’s Creative Marketing Commissar had anything to do with this?
19/08/2011 at 12:15 ran93r says:
Something else to add to the watch list.
Not the worlds biggest tower defence fan but it does look nice.
19/08/2011 at 12:35 eselinks says:
Something else to keep me busy thanks for informing us is the a real trailer or a teaser trailler.
http://www.newlyreleasedgamesreview.com
19/08/2011 at 12:46 Gothnak says:
I play a lot of tower defence, but most of them are crap tbh…
Defence Grid is awesome, Cursed Treasure is good, and this new one, Kingdom Rush is pretty good too:
http://armorgames.com/play/12141/kingdom-rush
19/08/2011 at 14:30 Wilson says:
Looks interesting, thanks for the recommendations. I’ve played and enjoyed Defense Grid, but haven’t looked out for free ones that much (because, as you say, many are poor).
19/08/2011 at 15:32 Trousers says:
Ty sir
19/08/2011 at 16:29 Tei says:
Harvest: Massive Encounter is another interesting TD game. Its worth checking the videos on youtube of the bases people built to defend against massive attacks. Is probably the only TD game that have abusable mechanics combined with the ability to defend from massive hordes, so the result is EPIC on massive scale.
19/08/2011 at 23:20 vecordae says:
Kingdom Rush is fun. Instead of the typical “tower wot freezes blokes” you can build a barracks. The barracks spawn a little group of mobs that hold up monsters by engaging them in hand-to-hand combat. The trick is that there’s only three of them, so you have to really think about where you put them. The whole spawn mobs of your own trick is nice and they even give you the ability to drop a couple of extra soldiers down every ten seconds or so.
22/08/2011 at 00:00 DrGonzo says:
The Creeper World games are great, they have a fairly lengthy demo, you fight back liquid from flooding your base an interesting take on TD.
19/08/2011 at 12:52 Nemon says:
I totally thought this was related to Defenders of The Crown. eGames (owners of Cinemaware) should take this to court or settle it with a round of Quake.
19/08/2011 at 13:58 Gnoupi says:
Oh Paradox. In this world of uninspired and angry Activisions and other Ubisofts, you are what makes the word “publisher” still worth something.
19/08/2011 at 16:31 johnpeat says:
How quickly they forget…
19/08/2011 at 15:11 uthere1 says:
funny how you people change your mind, a few months ago quite alot of people were commenting on how shitty the game looked (the game looks cool btw)
19/08/2011 at 16:07 bleeters says:
Yes yes yes, but does it feature a computer with a crisp English accent bemoaning his inability to eat strawberries?
19/08/2011 at 16:32 X says:
Sire, the rats are plotting to steal our cheese again and this time they won’t be content with Goudas, Pecorinos and Cheddars!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S9djWPfY0c
19/08/2011 at 17:05 shoptroll says:
Looks fun, but it doesn’t look like it’s adding anything new. Very pretty looking though!
20/08/2011 at 03:35 haihaiq says:
i love this game,i hope we can supply for our
shoping…..
http://bit.ly/n6SVQy