Your troops are hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, though, so to help you make your way safely to the end you also get four different types of special bonuses to deploy once the action gets underway, ranging from healing powers and decoy targets to powerful airstrikes and sneaky smoke screens.īefore that happens, the all-important planning takes place.

Unlike every other tower defence game - you’re the one attacking.īefore each level starts, you’re shown your starting position and where you need to go, given an objective by generic English Army Man (which varies between escorting ground and air units, blowing up specific turrets, and taking down large installations), and a handful of dollars to buy APCs, rocket launchers, tanks, plasma throwers (pardon?), and other goodies. We attack tonightĪs with all tower defence games, each of the 15 Campaign levels across the ravaged city features a convoy of units snaking their way down a set path in an attempt to bypass the tower-based defences and reach a target area (a base or special unit, normally). Just having pretty graphics alone doesn’t make a game worth its asking price, however, so it’s a good job Anomaly has the brains to back up its exquisitely crafted reverse-tower defence levels.

So why is it that Anomaly Warzone Earth’s burnt-out rendition of Baghdad in the near future looks so utterly gorgeous? Ransacked and crippled cities do not look beautiful, as anyone living in the UK this week will testify.

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