When beginning a map, an overview of each area is given and all of the enemy's defenses can be seen. It may not seem like much of a difference but once the troops are in the trenches, it stands apart from the crowd. Instead of placing towers and wiping out approaching columns of enemies, the player is now the one invading. No, the value in Anomaly: Warzone Earth is how it flips the genre's overfamiliar structure. While the game tells a thin story of alien forces landing on Earth and annoying the populace, it's weak and has no bearing on play. It was with some hesitation that I sat down with Anomaly Warzone Earth, but I was happy to find that going from Tower Defense to Tower Offense got me interested again. The charm of placing guns and playing passively soon wore off, and it wore off hard. Unfortunately, that patch of earth proved to be a little too fertile-before I knew it, every third game was some sort of iteration on the formula. I'm always up for things that break new ground, and it was unlike anything else I had played at the time. When I first found out about Tower Defense way back when, I thought it was an interesting genre. WTF It's never explained why your forces can't slow or stop.

LOW Waiting one second too long to change course and getting mulched. HIGH Bringing maxed-out missile launchers to bear on the enemy. The Slow-moving Runaway Choo-choo Train of Deadly Death

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