While the new towers do perform slightly differently-for example, the crossbowmen tower have a falcon upgrade that will enhance accuracy for neighboring Waves after waves of enemies will attempt to break through your forces. You’ll also have access to witch doctors, crossbowmen, axe throwers, and new dwarven artillery.
Of the original’s barbarians and knights. For example, your barracks can either deploy assassins (heavily influenced by the Assassin’s Creed franchise) or templars (ditto) instead You can also upgrade the individual powers of the highest level towers, manage heroes, and deploy special powers like falling fireballs andĪll of these elements are essentially imported from the first game-the only difference being the highest level towers have different looksĪnd powers now. Like in the original Kingdom Rush, you’ll have access to four types of towers that you can upgrade, with each tower having two branches at the highest
Stage, wall climbing lizardmen, and a sleeping dragon-keeping the gameplay exciting even if the core tools are all-too-familiar. You’ll have to avoid sandworms in a desert Mentioned pirate stage allows you to hire pirates as well as command a waiting man-o-war to fire on your foes. Over the dozen or so core campaign missions, Armor Games does a good job of introducing some new ways to make its familiar formula fresh. (with requisite Pirates of the Caribbean jokes). The jokes and easter-eggs are equallyĪnachronistic, but they’re still a highlight-look for an Indiana Jones reference in one of the temple stages and an exceptionally fun pirate-themed stage The overall medieval theme and the rock-paper-scissors combat mechanic Armor Games perfected in the original game. The campaign appears a bit scattered at points too, introducing gimmicky enemies that are hard to kill (teleporting, laser-gun toting) and break from both The high fantasy enemies the first game utilized, but the “evil tribesman” plotline feels a bit tone-deaf and borderline offensive. The tribesman/cannibal enemies are perhaps not as well-worn as Story-something about evil tribesman invading-then you’ll deploy towers to kill them all. You’ll get mission briefs and updates on the Kingdom Rush Frontiers has a wide variety of locals and enemies.Īs in the original title, you’re commanding an army of cartoon soldiers as they seek to defend their lands. Still, if you liked the frenetic strategy, endearing artwork, and memorable personalities of the first game, you’ll enjoy
You can think of Frontiers as the Angry Birds: Seasons of the Kingdom Rush franchise: Kingdom Rush Frontiers, the sequel (spin off? successor?) to Kingdom Rush landed earlier this month and brought with it a number of improvements that help make it one of the best tower defense games on mobile.įans of Kingdom Rush will be very familiar with Frontiers’ gameplay. Enemies and the soldiers you hired to kill them were adorably caricatured, and you could easily whittle away hours at a time coming up with the best strategy for stopping your foes. Armor Games’ Kingdom Rush for iOS was a challenging, charming, and moderately deep real-time strategy experience.