Left, Right and Center: Enemies only. How do you get out? The folks at Frosty Pop may have the solution in Escape From The Red Planet, a tower defense game that’s just been released on Steam.
As the name suggests, the game puts us in the role of a character who wants to escape from Mars; The problem is that Mars is full of… Martians. And these Martians don’t stop laughing; It will therefore be necessary to defend your base, made up mainly of an antenna that sends out a distress signal and a supercomputer that will help you in your troubles.
And to defend yourself you must build fortifications and towers, but also systems to harvest the precious solar energy used for everything. Worse – or even more complex, as the case may be – the defense towers only have a limited supply of shots to fire. Once their ammo runs out, these towers will self-destruct and new ones will have to be built, meaning having the necessary resources to do so.
Another obstacle on our way: with only three slots to build towers and a multitude of enemies that will soon force the player to install several different types of weapons, it will be necessary to quickly sacrifice some towers to get the most pressing ones Parrying and targeting enemies in the air, for example, while the existing weapons can only attack Martians moving on the ground.
Oh, there’s the option to use your own laser gun, but its effectiveness is terribly limited, as is the number of shots before you have to wait for it to (slowly) recharge.
Unsurprisingly, things get harder the further the player advances through the levels on offer, and it’s not uncommon to narrowly eliminate the last enemy when we thought all was lost.
However, like other tower defense games, Escape From The Red Planet is a prisoner of the codes of its own genre: you have to constantly build structures or wait to destroy the monsters that arrive in different waves. And even where other titles offer different maps, the only thing that changes here are the enemies, which are usually more numerous and ferocious. Sometimes, for example, there are hardly any differences when it comes to generating solar energy.
Otherwise we only see our character and his turrets, the enemies usually only appear on the map that shows the level progress; When these Martians get too close to our base, they appear on the main screen. Otherwise they will be killed off screen unless we switch to first person view to use our personal weapon.
All of this makes Escape From The Red Planet a somewhat redundant title that lacks variety to really engage the player. But at less than $10, we can always argue that the game is worth the hard money asked.
Escape from the Red Planet
Developer and publisher: Frosty pop
Platform : Windows (Steam)
Game interface offered in French
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