Doomsday Defense Review
By quixjote on Feb 6, 2011 | In Uncategorized, Reviews | Send feedback »
Doomsday Defense (DD) is more than your average Tower Defense game. In addition to the waves of Player Vs Environment (PvE), DD also has some fun Player Vs Player (PvP) options. Although this game is free to play, it is currently only available through FaceBook.
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When you first load the game and agree that you are going to share your life with everyone else, you will get the choice of what race you wish to be. Each race has it's own benefits and abilities, like the Spirits Towers having higher chance of 3x damage.
How would I rate this game:
Ease of use: 3/5
Enjoyability: 4/5
Addictiveness: 4/5
Lifespan: 3/5
Performance: 4/5
Cost: 3/5
Graphics: 3/5
OVERALL: 6.8/10 - D
While this game is fun to play in own right, there are many things with the game that could still be improved. I do not feel that there is any one aspect of this game that would get a 100% A rating right now in it's current stage, as it feels like I am generally playing an incomplete beta version of the game.
Even though there is a "Tutorial" system in place and some quests to try to help you through the game, it is not as user friendly initially as it could have been. There was a general sense that in order to play this game you had to have played similar games before. The dual leveling ability for towers is at first, kinda confusing... then confusing again when you get your first few fails trying to upgrade the base towers and they fall back down to a +4 rating.
Even though there is a lot of potential to PvP in this game, at a certain point, it seems like the game would become very repetitious. With lack of customization of your own PvP map there seems only a finite number of possibilities for how you can defend your castle, or to invade other castles. There also does not appear to be any major form of award system for achieving higher levels or beating so many players.
The graphics remind me much of a late SNES game. Not bad, but not great. Definitely sprite material. Also with some of the way that graphics overlap within the game, chests that drop can be difficult to retrieve, until you come back to a certain screen and the chests move to a more accessible location. At least the chests do not just disappear.
While the game IS free to play, there are a few items that you can ONLY get with real money. Such as the enhanced Gem that provides almost 100% chance to upgrade base towers past +4. If you only spend $20 in the game though, it comes out to about $2.25 per base tower level enhancement. (Allowing you to get 1 tower to level 9, and one to 8).
Initially, as you are leveling your massive army, this game IS very addictive though. If you enjoy games like Travian and Desktop Defense, than at least for a while you would enjoy this game.
I am interested to see how this game progresses and if it receives any major content upgrades. I feel that this game could have a lot of potential, but it feels like it was released too early.
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