The Game Boots: Strategy

METHUS' Tower Defence

A unique strategy game that will keep you hooked for a long time.

Turtle

It's quick, it's addicting, it's sorta gross but it's also sorta cute. Challenge yourself and beat everyone's time in this quick skill/simulator game.

Raiden X

A flash version of the classic game and it's paid perfect attention to the elements that made its namesake game such a hit.

Monster Slayers

Train your own army, decide which skills you're going to get and collect hats. Best of all, you get to challenge other gamers' armies by battling in multi-player option!

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Here's a great time management game that lets you control those darn street lights and has other elements to it.

ABOUT THE GAME
This is a game that has its challenges and some elements that sets it apart from other traffic control games. You use your mouse to click on the street lights to make them go "Green" (means cars on that lane go) or "Red" (cars on that lane stop). Obvious enough, the goal is to not let cars crash into each other (don't cause an accident), and, not to let drivers get mad at you for holding them in one late for too long! Not only that, you also have to take note of the time. Each level, there's a set amount of cars that have to pass through the intersection successfully and a time limit to do so. ^_^ I love how they made it more challenging than usual!

There are also some levels where you only control 1 traffic light, and you'll have absolutely no control over the cars on the other intersecting lane. You'll have to wait for the right time before letting the other cars on the street light lane pass.

Here are the screen shots:

Game Boots Rating: 5 out of 5

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Happy Gaming!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Age of Defense 3 - Review (3 out of 5)

Posted by Anne

I'm really impressed with the quality of games coming from Belugerin and here's another installment of their hit Age of Defense strategy titles. They gave this 3rd version a totally different twist.

ABOUT THE GAME
Usually, rather, past Age of Defense games only involves you clicking on which character to send out to the enemy, you have your own base to protect from enemy units, and at the same time you have to attack the enemy (by overwhelming the AI with sheer number of weak units or by quality units who cost more but have greater HP and stronger attacks). In the course of each level you gain experience, and once you have enough experience, you can upgrade your civilization - from stone-age to robot era, and each upgrade of civilization unlocks better units for you. So you also are in a race against the AI to get experience faster and upgrade civilizations faster.

In the new Age of Defense game, you will also (at the end of every level), choose how to spend "points" that you get after each level, either unlock an existing unit's skill, or using the points to get an entirely new unit. Not only that, you'll have to follow a, sort of, skill tree, so you can't just go on unlocking units, you have to unlock units in a certain order to get to what you want.

Here are the screenshots:

And that's only page 1

Left side, UNIT TREE (unlock grayed out units there) and Right side, SKILL TREE (unlock each unit's special skill

My technique has always been melee followed by long-ranged units. Another change in the system is that units can occupy the same space at the same time (unlike previous versions, they line up and wait for the unit in front of them to get killed before going forward).

OVERALL

Do I like the new system? Well, I like the previous Age of Defense better than this one. This one has a lot more going on, although I welcome the fact that they increased the levels, I just think that 100 levels (2 pages of 50 levels each) is too much. After playing the first 10 and winning easily, I just found it boring and there's no excitement even if I knew there were unlockables. So this one was a little disappointing for me, while I know a lot will probably disagree. I rate this version 2 because my point of view is comparing it with the other versions of this title, but if I would rate it against other online games with the same system, it would be a 3.

Game Boots Rating: 3 out of 5

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Good luck gaming!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Monster Slayers - Review and Guide (4 out of 5)

Posted by Anne

ABOUT THE GAME
This game was created by Nerdook and the version I played was what they designed for Armor Games although they also have the same game created for other game sites like Kongregate. It's an action/strategy game that lets you build an army of 5 customizable soldiers and go through missions to gain experience and items that will help you clear the game and improve your army to get it ready for multi-player. The cute character and background designs remind me of a PSP game. I'm sure you'll know which one it is once you start playing the game.

GAME COMMANDS/CONTROLS

You'll only need your mouse in this game and to control you're army during a mission you'll just need to click 4 commands on screen:

Fall Back! - Lets you regroup your army (doesn't attack)

Defend! - Units will Attack while maintaining position and take half damage but inflict half damage as well

Attack! - All units will attack (of course...)

Quick March! - All units march forward. Units will automatically stop if they're too close to an obstacle (which is most of the time an enemy)

CREATING A CHARACTER
You can add/create characters and choose whether they're melee or ranged. I suggest getting a mix of both ranged and melee and different abilities too.

Here's the list of the different character types and you can see it on the game if you go to view your army and click on "career guide". Mouseover and you'll see the description for each character.

You can also remove any character at any given time and create a new one from scratch if you want.

HATS
You can also have your characters wear hats that you collected from battle which have perks.

The trophies in this game are the hats. As you can see, I haven't completed them all. Most of the really good hats you can get from playing against armies in Multi-player.

Here's a sample of how to equip a hat on the army view. Just click on a character, and click on the arrow left or right to scroll through the hats that you have.

List of Summoning Combination

There are certain items you get after a mission and these can be used in making a summoning item which, by its name, can summon a guardian of some sort and assists units in battle by way of special perks like additional damage to melee units, or paralyzing enemies, etc for a limited time.

Here's how the summoning menu looks. Just click on the 2 ingredients you want to combine, in this case I clicked on Animal Hide and Demon Tooth. The summon can be used once and for a limited time.

Here's how it looks going into a mission with a summon (lower right). Just click on it to use it.

And here's how the Seraph summon looks like when in use. You can see that on the right side of screen there's a clump of green balls... Those are the items and gold left behind by enemies after you defeat them. You have to mouse-over them to get the money and the items.

Here's the list of summoning combination:

Animal Hide + Demon Tooth = Guardian (All units become invurnerable to missles)

Animal Hide + Oak Leaf = Seraph (All Units heal over time)

Animal Hide + Fire Stone = Deamon (All units gain flame attack)

Animal Hide + Cursed Bone = Reaper (All enemies lose HP over time)

Animal Hide + Blue Crystal = Blade (All melle units double damage)

Animal Hide + Monster Claw = Savage – All melee units gain lifedrain)

Demon Tooth + Oak Leaf = Treeant (All enemies move at half speed when entangled)

Demon Tooth + Fire Stone = Deamon (All units gain flame attack)

Demon Tooth + Cursed Bone = Serpent (Units gain dodge and poison attacks)

Demon Tooth + Blue Crystal = Fox (All units move twice as fast)

Demon Tooth + Monster Claw = Savage (All melee units gain lifedrain)

Oak Leaf + Fire Stone = Reaper (All enemies lose HP over time)

Oak Leaf + Cursed Bone = Serpent (Units gain dodge and poison attacks)

Oak Leaf + Blue Crystal = Seraph (All Units heal over time)

Oak Leaf + Monster Claw = Treeant (All enemies move at half speed when entangled)

Fire Stone + Cursed Bone = Blade (All melle units double damage)

Fire Stone + Blue Crystal = Frosty (All units gain frost attack)

Fire Stone + Monster Claw = Deamon (All units gain flame attack)

Cursed Bone + Blue Crystal = Frosty (All units gain frost attack)

Cursed Bone + Monster Claw = Savage (All melee units gain lifedrain)

Blue Crystal + Monster Claw = Fox (All units move twice as fast)

Here are some pictures of the other summons and the battle:

On the World Map, you can choose which mission you would like to do. Here's a monster mission or perhaps what can be called mini-boss fights. ^_^

Here's the monster...

Here's my summon...

Bye! Bye! Mr. Burning Ram!

End of Mission - Yey! New Summon ingredient found and 1 character leveled-up! Don't worry if some of your characters die in the middle of the fight, they still get the experience. Also, game is automatically saved after each mission.

OVERALL RATING
I love how simple yet very interesting the game is. Also the fact that you can build up your army and play against other people's army keeps you wanting to play some more. The hats are not easy to collect as it also relies on chance so if you want to collect them all, you have to play a lot and go to the multiplayer option because the strong hats can be won on the multi-player mode.

What I am just a little bit disappointed about is how you can complete the whole game really quickly. I wish there were more chapters. But still, a game worth your time!

When you click on "multi-player" it brings up a window where you can choose your opponent.

There's a cute surprise when you finish the game... ^_^

Game Boots Rating: 4 out of 5

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Happy Gaming!

Friday, January 28, 2011

Methus Tower Defense – Review (4 out of 5)

Posted by Anne

ABOUT THE GAME

Methus Tower Defense, created by Explored and hosted at Crazy Monkey, is a shooting tower defense game where, instead of creating towers along your enemies’ path like the usual TD (Tower Defense), you aim and shoot at the enemies before they get to you or whatever it is you’re protecting. In this game, you are a wizard and you get to choose the spell you want to use provided you have enough mana to cast them. You also collect the souls of the enemies you defeated which you can use to upgrade or buy spells and even covert some souls to mana if you run out of it.

Game Screen, instructions and controls.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE GAME

This is considered a strategy game and I like these types of games because there are a lot of spells to upgrade and choose from so there are a lot of ways you can beat this game, but of course, there’s always the best and easiest way. Also, the game offers a respectable degree of challenge and you’ll really want to finish the whole game and not stop halfway.

This upgrade screen appears each time you complete a level. You can also recharge your "magic barrier" or health bar.

WHAT I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT THE GAME

No/Minimal Replay Value
After completing the game, I’m not motivated enough to play it again. And that’s because you’ll have to start from the very beginning where you don’t have the spells you upgraded, and the enemies are, well, weaklings. You’ll have to go through those boring levels first before you get to the challenging ones and have the arsenal of spells you like.

No Game Speed Control
I would also like to have speed control so that it’s faster to get through the levels or waves with the weaker enemies without spending too much time on the game.

Can Not Continue Game after Completion
When I completed the game, I could no longer choose the “CONTINUE” option under the main menu. I thought that the “CONTINUE” option holds the latest game data that I have before finishing the last level, but it didn’t. I wanted to try the other spells and use it on the last level but it seems that I have to play the game again, from the start, if I want to do that. Ugh!

QUICK TIPS
Best spells for me:

FIREBALL – Hits multiple enemies within the radius of the spell range (range improves when upgraded).

RAISE DEAD – Maximum spell level 10 allows you to create upto 20 zombie minions to fight for you. For those struggling how to raise the dead and make zombies, choose this spell when you have souls in the field (don't collect the souls). You'll see on the screen the scope or range of the spell and all the souls within the range will be turned into zombies, upto the maximum limit depending on the level of your spell. The more you level up this spell, the wider the range is (more zombies in one click - provided you have a lot of souls clumped up in a spot) and more zombies for you.

SUMMON GOLEM – Fights enemies that get too close to you. You can only summon 1 Golem though.

WAVE OF DEATH – Hits all enemies on the screen. Best upgraded to 10 then use RAISE DEAD after casting this spell because there’s sure to be a buffet of souls to be converted to your own zombie minions.

Here you can see my Golem and Zombies (purple health bar) fighitng the enemies for me. You can let them take care of the melee enemies but make sure to watch out for long-ranged ones. The Zombies are slow and the Golem is even slower. You'll take on damage if you don't take care of the archers and spellcasters yourself.

OVERALL RATING FOR THE GAME

Even though I listed more “DISLIKE” than “LIKE”, I think it was still a game worthy of my time and effort. I love a challenge and completing a game that offers a respectable degree of difficulty makes my day.

Game Boots Rating: 4 Boots out of 5

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Happy Gaming!

Bug War 2 – Tips and Review (4 out of 5)

Posted by Anne

ABOUT THE GAME
Bug War 2 is a second release (duh!) for the Bug War title by Bubblebox.com. It’s one of those strategy games where you or your minions occupy a tower at the start of the game and you have to overrun enemies by occupying all of their towers.

There are 2 types of towers in the whole game, the Spawn tower which can produce bugs every second and there’s the Cannon tower that can fire cannon balls at incoming attacking bugs but can’t create bugs. Both towers can hold unlimited number of bugs. There are 13 levels in the game and after finishing a level you’ll get a rating of 1-5 stars depending on how well you do for that level. 5 stars is the maximum number of stars you can get in a game and it’s very important you get all 5 stars for every level if you want to complete the trophies. This game encourages replay by offering trophies and other races of bugs. At the start, you’ll see that there are 3 options for races of bugs: Agile, Fast or Strong – but you can only choose Agile type of bugs if you’re playing the game for the first time. Fast and Strong bugs can be unlocked after finishing the game using the Agile Race. Also, there are 12 trophies or achievements you can complete while playing the game which are all fairly easy to get.

HOW TO GET 5 STARS IN ALL LEVELS

The key to get all 5 stars in each level is speed and to some extent, not losing any spawn over to the enemies.

Here's when all levels are played and have 5 stars rating each plus all the trophies completed.

SPEED

To finish the game really quick, you should attack the enemy straight on. Don’t bother occupying the nearby towers if they’re not leading the shortest path to your enemy’s tower/s. Better if you capture another spawn tower at the start of the game for higher levels so that you can produce more bugs per second, but for lower levels, if the nearest tower is a Cannon tower, then go ahead and occupy it right away.

Here's finishing level 1 in 11 seconds and 1 spawn lost, still got 5 stars.

SPAWNS LOST

The lower levels are more forgiving in terms of losing spawns to the enemies. As long as you finish the level really fast, even if you lose a couple of spawns or towers, you’ll still get 5 stars. But for the higher levels, 10 and up, you’ll need to secure the spawns/towers you occupy by concentrating on putting bugs until you get to have 30 or so bugs in the tower, a comfortable number that you know can’t easily be overrun by the enemies.

OVERALL RATING FOR THE GAME

I love this type of strategy game because it does get you to think of strategies per level because some levels can prove to be challenging if you make a wrong move for the first few clicks. But I think the game is a little too easy and the trophies, aside from being easy to get, aren’t at all that rewarding (well, maybe it’s because they’re easy to complete so that’s why there’s no ‘feeling of satisfaction’). I like the art and the levels but after completing the whole game, I won’t bother to play the levels again unless it’s to complete the trophy set. I’ve played a lot of other games like this that really have more replay value. I wish there were more levels that are more challenging and more trophies or achievements to complete.

The end of credits - after you finish level 13 'aka' "The Final Level"

Game Boots Rating: 4 Boots out of 5

Happy Gaming!

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Monster Slayers - Review and Guide (4 out of 5)

Methus Tower Defense – Review (4 out of 5)

Bug War 2 – Tips and Review (4 out of 5)

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