After a few upgrades, it can rapidly cycle between lasers, rapid fire, bombs, and missiles, and each setting also has an alt-fire. Large energy processing plants drop from space, crash onto the surface and become home base, so the player must destroy tanks, helicopters, mech suits, and any other forces that mean to repel the invaders.Īlthough it sports a generic-sounding title that doesn’t paint much of a mental picture, the naming of X-Morph actually reflects its content accurately - while metallic and robotic in nature, the aliens are highly malleable and have quite a few tricks up their sleeves.įor example, the player-controlled drone has multiple forms, the shape of its body depending on what weapon it’s using at the time. In X-Morph: Defense, the story starts with a twist by having the player take on the role of an enemy drone defending invaders in the process of taking over Earth. In addition to common Tower Defense concepts - players construct towers along predetermined enemy paths with the aim of stopping them from reaching their base - the ‘active’ portion usually adds an avatar to control in real time for the purpose of supporting defenses that need help, or for taking the fight to the enemy proactively. This game from Exor Studios is an Active Tower Defense title. Even better? When an unknown turns out to be great.Ĭase in point: I hadn’t heard a thing about X-Morph: Defense before I got an offer to review it, and if it wasn’t for a couple of intriguing screenshots I probably would’ve deleted the message and moved on. In contrast, it’s an absolute delight when something pops up with zero fanfare preceding it. With email, social media, and advertising everywhere, sometimes it feels like we hear about games for years before they come out. WTF How is one commander in charge of the entire planet? LOW Fast-forwarding through a cutscene and letting the enemy get the jump on me.
HIGH Fantastic blending of Tower Defense and Shmup genres.
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