Following on from 2011’s Anomaly Warzone Earth, Anomoly Korea brings back the modern twist on the tower defense strategy game. With impressive graphics and a fiendish difficulty level it’s picked up a whole host of awards since its release late in 2012, including the Gold Award from Pocket Gamer.
While the game feels a bit slow and can be unforgiving at times, which can be a bit of a put off to begin with, when you get into the way the game works it will reward you for the effort. Without all of the critical acclaim and you awards you’d be forgiven for dismissing the game all to easily, and though it might not be the all out action of N.O.V.A. 3, it’s got a lot going for it in terms strategic fun.
If you didn’t play Anomaly Warzone Earth the concept of an inverted tower defense strategy game will come as a bit of a tough concept to get used to. However, when you start to adapt to the fact that you control different armoured vehicles and their best deployment against alien strongholds in Korea the game starts to come alive a little bit. Choosing the wrong vehicle or the wrong power at the wrong time is all you need to do to fail a mission, so you have to make smart decisions at every twist and turn of the game.
Getting to grips with speeding up the movement with the little fast forward button in the bottom right hand side of the screen will help you get more involved in the action quicker. However, the hard part is getting past the frustration of defeat, but in situations like this, the bets thing to do is to tank up some Horangis, get yourself set and smash them all up side their tower cannon rotating heads with trigger fingers on abilities.
In Anomaly Korea, developers Chillingo have created a good return to the genre busting strategy game that proved such a success. It’s a slick looking game with a simple style and punishing opposition, so if you’re looking for a route planning challenge, you’ll find it hard to beat it (unless you’re planning on going orienteering at Standard Bowers).
Anomaly Korea review: 3.9/5
Although, if only I can get the sound to work on it, I might be inclined to play it a little more (it would probably push it over the 4 star rating too)… Dggjghsnfffrustrating!
