FieldRunners review

Ahh Fieldrunners. You all should have heard of this one. It's a tower defense game from Sub atomic. Yay.

There's not really much to this one. All tower defense games are pretty much the same, are they not? FieldRunners features the main game, a local score leaderboard, and not a whole lot else actually. So, how's the actual game and the controls?

After choosing to play the game, you are given a choice of which map to play - to start with you will only have to one to choose (The Grasslands), but as you play more and complete every level, you unlock another one. There's 5 maps altogether once you have unlocked all of them.

So, you choose the map you want, and choose your difficulty. You also have to choose a mode - "Classic", which apparently involves "Defending your territory using 4 towers over 100 rounds"; "Extended", which is exactly the same except with 6 towers over 100 rounds; and endless, which is exactly the same but with 6 towers over endless rounds. So now you know. Possibly.

I went for classic, as it sounded easiest. The controls for this game are bafflingly easy. You use the D-Pad to navigate the field, and the analogue stick to zoom in/out on it. When you have unlocked it, you can use the triangle button to fast forward time so you don't get too insanely bored of waiting for more annoying little ****s to turn up! You use the shoulder buttons to select one of the 4 different types of tower (a gun, something that looks like a water hose a rocket launcher, and a lightening bolt), and press X to place it - you can press X on it again to upgrade it twice further. Select button is used to pause time, allowing you to place turrets without dying. Got all that?

The game itself is quite fun, though is pretty much the same as every other tower defense game available. You stop the things from reaching the goal zone. That's about all there is too it. Sure, the graphics are relatively pretty, but still, this game doesn't offer a lot of anything new. But i don't think it really needs to.

Would i recommend it? Fully. It's good for killing time, as all tower defense games are. If you are a fan of tower defense games, and don't already own this Mini, hop onto the PSN store and grab it while it's hot!

One thing i did notice though - the game seems to enjoy crashing on the PS3. Not a full hard crash - just a couple of seconds at the end of random rounds. It's nothing major, but it is annoying.

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