games website "Castle Storm" detailed review: mobile games above the PC is not enough

Tower Defence originated as a game called Desktop Tower Defence, and has since become popular among Internet cafes and home gamers with the popularity of the war3 map editor.

Subsequently, a large number of tower defense games like mushrooming into the player's vision, landing on different platforms, using different screen styles, but the core still can not escape a few tricks - a large number of enemies emerge, build attack towers for defense, defeat the enemy or be broken through by the enemy.

In the current situation of quantity and quality, how to pick out one or two suitable tower defense games among these many?

This "Castle Storm" is undoubtedly a good work, the picture is exquisite, the system and the game both strategic and operational, as well as the mode of confrontation, so once again recommend, suitable for the hot summer between good gay friends of the homosexual love confrontation.

Game introduction

Castlestorm is a polished 2D side-scrolling war game produced and published by ZenStudios, which can be played on a single console or online.

Medieval style tower defense strategy game CastleStorm is a 2D horizontal bow and arrow tower defense game that mixes real-time strategy, resource management, cold weapon combat, and colorful beautiful scenes.

In the game, players will deploy soldiers of different classes to defend the castle, and use the morning star, Apple grenades, guided eagles, and even flying goats to attack the enemy. If all else fails, we can summon powerful spells to keep our enemies away from the castle.

The painting style of the game is very strange, the depiction of physical effects is also very realistic, the use of different weapons to attack each other's castles or units, the enemy's buildings and individual soldiers will have different reactions, players must not only manage their own castles, but also learn how to capture others' castles.

Summary: The game probably tells such a story, a long time ago, the war between the Imperial army and the Vikings broke out, from then on, the people were devastated, the goddess of war witnessed this tragedy, leaving two drops of sad tears, tears fell to the ground, transformed into a red and blue two gems, each of the two leaders won one, from then on into peace.

Until one day, when the Vikings were ready to move, the air smelled of war...... After completing the game, the player will realize that this is just the beginning, just like the end of Gears of War 1.

Game screen

"Castle Storm" is a beautiful 2D scroll +3D character horizontal version of the tower defense game, seemingly a flat game battlefield but full of in-depth details of the game scene.

The sparkling water of the lake in the background, the lush greenery of the forest or the intense conflict of the war all make the overall game look lively rather than dead like other pure 2D horizontal games.

The overall graphics are American cartoon style, and in this era of high precision mapping modeling and stunning detail CG, it is rare to see a game with such a fresh and charming fairy tale color.

The game adopts the delicate hand-drawn animation style, the picture is clean and refreshing, the scene is colorful and bright, and the production team has created a real fantasy world for the players.

In the overall picture of the game, whether it is the degree of bright colors or the whole background and character design are very good, especially the brightness is just right, so that the whole game is like a painting in front of the eyes.

The details in the game are very good, the bow and javelin shooting at the enemy body or shield will stay for a period of time, different props will have different object effects feedback when killing the enemy and destroying the castle through the parabola throwing, rare game and cut scenes, although not beautiful, but at least to the player clearly elaborated the game story and game process.

Summary: The picture is bright and vivid, the style is delicate and the details are excellent. The combination of colors makes people look very comfortable and pleasant. The frame count is stable and smooth. And this article also supports native 3D special effects, praise!

Game music/sound effects

The game BGM is lighthearted and witty, and the brisk music perfectly sets off the theme of the game. Although it is a war themed game, the essence of this game is still easy and funny, which can also be seen from the game painting style.

But the BGM melody is monotonous and repetitive, which is a hard wound. The impact sound effect is still very good, in the castle to switch different shooting methods corresponding to different sound effects, there is the sound of sharp instruments into the meat, the sound of gold and stone with swords and shields, the roar of heavy objects thrown to the ground and the screams of the enemy, which is impressive.

It is estimated that due to funding reasons, there is no whole voice, only some "uh-huh" tone, in fact, there is no need to pursue this and the sound, directly all omitted is also very good.

Bottom line: Repetition of monotone BGM and speech is a serious drag.

Game operation

In each level, the player must mainly control the huge balbow mounted on the gate, adjust the parabolic aiming line, supplemented by the left and right vision of the moving screen, so that the player can grasp the situation of the entire battlefield.

Then the fire line to the enemy after pressing the A key, you can fire the crossbow to kill the enemy, each kill an enemy can get the corresponding gold, if you can accurately shoot the enemy head will have an additional bonus, and the amount of gold will affect the game after the player gets the evaluation.

Heroes in the game are characters that can be controlled by the player, and soldiers are automatic walking battles. Control the hero into the horizontal version of the ACT mode, all the way to hack and kill is very enjoyable, but the hero exists time game, otherwise it will give you a show of unarmed castle demolition!

Summary: The handle operation is very painful, ah, because the left analog rocker sensitivity is too high, it will cause the parabolic Angle of view when moving directly look at the moon......

Game style and system

"Castle Storm" combines the gameplay of tower defense games and Angry Birds, so the game system can be roughly divided into two parts: one is to summon a variety of soldiers and heroes of different professions, and use the castle's own defense weapons to resist soldiers who come to invade our castle; The second is to use the colorful attack weapons in the castle to completely destroy the enemy's castle stronghold.

The game has four modes of play, campaign, conflict, survival, hero survival, and three game difficulties. In the game's campaign mode, it will slowly unlock and upgrade more powerful attack weapons, soldiers, heroes, magic, etc., as recommended by the plot, and in the game, these elements should be switched from time to time, otherwise it is difficult to pass.

In addition, players can use the manpower and equipment acquired in the game, edit their own castle, and play against other players online or in cooperative games.

Summary: The game props soldier heroes are rich and interesting, but too many operable elements are easy to cause confusion.