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Towers are placed on fixed emplacements on the map. Completing each map unlocks the next one and allows you to replay the previous one at harder difficulty levels or altering the game settings. There’s a campaign that guides you through each map as part of an overarching story, and you’re given more tower types and harder maps as time passes. As expected, there are no great innovations or new ideas here.

When Steam put it on sale at US$14.99 over the holidays, I immediately snapped it up even though I’m still busy with Fallout 3. I’ve always known that it was inevitable that someone would make one as a full-fledged standalone game with professional production values and now along comes Defense Grid: The Awakening. I’ve also heard good things about Desktop Tower Defense, but I found the prospect of having to design an entire maze all by myself to be intimidating. My favourite is probably Vector TD with its simple vector graphics. I’ve played quite a few of them on and off, even if I’m not terribly good at them.

It wasn’t until the advent of Flash games that tower defense really took off as a genre.

#VECTOR TD STRATEGY MODS#

As I recall, the first examples appeared as mods for Warcraft 3, but as I didn’t really like that game, I didn’t really check those out thoroughly. It’s not too surprising then that I was intrigued when people started making maps and mods specifically for this purpose. I’m not usually a fan of RTS games, but when I do play them, my favourite maps tend to be the ones in which you have to defend your base against wave after wave of enemy attackers.

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