TowerDefence – Ordinary Superhero

Bubble defence is a tower defence game. There are several of these available on the Market and this is one of the simplest looking, if no less addictive for it.

The basic concept is to build up defence towers along a path to try to defeat wave after wave of increasingly armoured bubbles which follow that path.

There are four different kinds of towers:

The Basic Tower – shoots a single shot

The Six Barrel Tower – shoots 6 equally spaced shots at once

The Flame Tower – melts ice balloons

The Transporter – transports balloons back to the beginning of the track

The variety of enemies isn’t huge but it’s an elegant solution. Shooting each enemy removes 1 “layer” of protection until you finally get down to the last layer and destro them

You earn money foe every hit but, unlike many of these games there’s no interest to be earned by saving your cash

These towers are used to defeat the 7 different kinds of enemy. Most of these are basi

There are 7 different path layouts and Five levels of difficulty.

Bubble defence is available as a free ad-supported version or as a full version for 1.99. One thing that annoyed me after buying the full version, and is something I’ve seen in several upgrades of that kind, is that your history of high scores isn’t imported to the full version. It might be a bit of extra work but it would be rewarding for those of us who’d played enough of the free version to cough up the cash.

Bubble Defense is a tower defense game. There are several of these available on the Market and this is one of the simplest looking, if no less addictive for it.

The basic concept is to build up defense towers along a path to try to defeat wave after wave of increasingly armoured bubbles which follow that path.

There are four different kinds of towers:

The Basic Tower – shoots a single shot
The Six Barrel Tower – shoots 6 equally spaced shots at once
The Flame Tower – melts ice balloons
The Transporter – transports balloons back to the beginning of the track

These towers are used to defeat the 7 different kinds of enemy. Most of these are basically the same, with different colours and speeds, all nested in one another. Shooting each enemy removes 1 “layer” of protection until you finally get down to the last layer and destroy them. The most difficult enemy shoots back though, so be careful

Some maps have more than one entrance for bubbles

You earn money for every hit but, unlike many similar games there’s no interest to be earned by saving your cash, so feel free to splash out.

There are 7 different path layouts and 5levels of difficulty, leaving quite a lot of variety and replay value.

Bubble defense is available as a free ad-supported version or as a full version for 99 cents. One thing that annoyed me after buying the full version, and is something I’ve seen in several upgrades of that kind, is that your history of high scores isn’t imported to the full version. It might be a bit of extra work but it would be rewarding for those of us who’d played enough of the free version to cough up the cash.

I’m a big fan of Tower Defence games. I’ve played quite a few over the years and I have to confess that Sentinel is one of the best I’ve played (buy Sentinel on iTunes.)

In a tower defence game you face waves of enemies, slowly increasing in difficulty while you build up your defences against each wave. There are usually waves with different characteristics (i.e. some can fly so are immune to ground based weapons) and weapons to match lots of characteristics. The idea is to build up a mixture of defences to defeat al enemies.

The premise here is that you are defending the Mars base from invading alien hordes.

One of the things which hits you immediately about Sentinel is the high quality visuals and sound effects. Of all of the games in this genre which I’ve played this is by far the best produced. It’s also one of the most addictive. There are 4 separate layouts to defend, in either assault (90 waves of attack) or endurance (unlimited waves.)

Since the release of Sentinel 2 (review coming soon), Sentinel has been reduced to 99c – well worth the money.

My only bugbear with the game is that it stops whatever you’re listening to when it starts but you can get around that using the double-click trick.

(7.5/10)