Reloading a gun is the stuff of action movies. But it’s a lot less dull than tower construction and renovation. You’ve placed the soldiers like you’d place towers. The soldiers just stand there, shooting a bunch of aliens who are doing the moving. But in this latest TD version, there’s no moving a soldier around. They’ve made about ten separate games of this stuff. You move a soldier around, shoot a bunch of aliens, repeat as necessary. The developers at Sigma Team have been doing these Alien Shooter games for fifteen years. There’s none of that in Alien Shooter TD.īut interactivity in Alien Shooter TD comes from its identity. Some tower defense games let you get in there to do your own shooting. There’s also a little of that in Alien Shooter TD. Other tower defense games give you a hero, or maybe some active powers to drop on the map. There’s a little of that in Alien Shooter TD. Some tower defense games make me click stuff to scoop it up. Beyond those two things, I’m a spectator. Eventually, I’ll pile up the resources to upgrade the tower, so that’s my secondary job. Interactivity is the toughest prerequisite for a tower defense game. I don’t think I’ve lasted more than five minutes on any of them, which is fine because my reaction afterwards was “I held out for almost five minutes and that’s all I get for it?”. You unlock open-ended survival maps if you want to dig in for an extended grind. Alien Shooter TD has the obligatory fast forward button and brief rounds. Most tower defense games get this right, because they know they’re for people who don’t have the attention span to play an actual RTS. So matches have to be relatively short and fast forwardable, especially if I might fail and have to start over. Once my towers are set up, I’m mostly done. These are comfort food games and, really, my involvement is minor. It’s a tower defense game, for Pete’s sake it only deserves so much time. It can’t take forever to play and I have to be able to speed it up. The four things I need in a tower defense game are pacing, interactivity, flexibility, and progression. So for the sake of argument, let’s say that I do play tower defense games. So if I played tower defense games, I would play Alien Shooter TD. Alien Shooter TD gets those four things right, plus a fifth thing. But when I do, they have to get four things right. Tower defense players just want to shoot stuff that runs at them to get shot. At least MOBA players, who want to play an RTS without actually playing an RTS, are going up against other players. They’re for people who want to turtle in an RTS, but they don’t want to actually play an RTS.
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