![]() IOS version was chosen Game Of The Year Runner-Up by TouchArcade, and was named the "Best Strategy" iOS game of the year in TouchGen 's Editor's Choice Awards. At the end of 2011 Apple has posted their annual iTunes and App Store rewind lists, where Anomaly: Warzone Earth has been entitled Game Of The Year Runner-Up. ![]() In June 2011, OS X version was awarded with Apple Design Award during Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. As of November 14, 2011, the iOS version is one of the highest rated iOS games of all time on Metacritic with a score of 94. Select Start Media awarded the game 7.9/10, praising the unique idea of "tower offence" and solid gameplay. GamesBeat gave the game a score of 80/100, saying, "While it's hard to control, Anomaly is still playable and enjoyable as long as you take the time to really master the interface first.". Reception Īnomaly: Warzone Earth received strong reviews from critics. A beta linux version was created but quickly scrapped as it was too buggy. The game was released on Xbox Live Arcade in April 2012. An Android version followed, initially as an exclusive release on the Amazon Appstore, on November 29, 2011, then as a general Android Market release on January 25, 2012. In addition, the iOS and Android versions do not feature the levels set in Tokyo.Īnomaly: Warzone Earth was released on PC and Mac on Apand was released on iOS on Augas separate apps for iPhone and iPad. The iOS and Android versions omit the Commander in lieu of the player directly placing power using the touch-based interface. In the Windows, Mac, Linux and XBLA versions, players directly control a soldier on foot (dubbed the Commander) whom they use to pick up and drop the power-ups for the convoy. In addition, players can purchase and equip a number of different units with varying offensive and defensive attributes to make up the convoy. Players do not directly control the vehicles in the convoy, rather they set paths for the convoy to follow along city streets, while also dropping power-ups such as decoys or smoke-screens to aid the survival of the convoy. Players control a convoy of vehicles investigating anomalies around sections of a downed alien spacecraft, which are protected by various types of defensive towers that have to be destroyed. The style of the gameplay has been described as "reverse tower defense", "tower attack", and "tower offense". Alas any chance of fun provided by the four-player co-op is rendered null and void amid dull shooting mechanics, lacklustre presentation and relentlessly repetitive gameplay in a game which could have been mindless entertainment, but falls way short of the mark.Convoy has blue health bars while tower is red Worth picking up as a curio for anyone keen to experience the origins of the platformer perhaps, but only just.Īnother nail into the coffin of the film tie-in sees Barney, Gunner, Caesar and Yin Yang (aka Sylvester Stallone and friends) doing exactly what they do in The Expendables movies, namely: shooting lots of enemies, making scenery explode and all the while spouting the kind of hackneyed dialogue that everyone thought went mercifully out with the 1980s. However, as a re-release of the NES version first released in 1987 the game is less junior, and more geriatric and so perhaps unavoidably rough around the edges and particularly short of content. ![]() Being a nimble ape his journey to the top of the tree means more vine swinging than barrel leaping, but in essence gameplay remains faithful to that of the original Donkey Kong. The tables are turned as Mario, presumably sick of having oil drums hurled at him, has taken the troublesome Donkey Kong captive, cue the eponymous Donkey Kong Jr.
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