02/03/2012 (3 of 3 found this helpful)

Two Bland Tastes That… Taste Good Together?

“Dungeon Defenders” is the first game produced by the Florida-based indie developer, Trendy Entertainment, combining two of the hottest sub-genres in repetition-centric gameplay: Tower Defense and Hack ‘n Slash. While it is common for the big publishers to throw their games onto any and every platform that will run them, most indie developers stick with the PC, with a port to the ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not a PC’ Xbox 360. In Trendy’s case, they’ve ported their inaugural effort, which was originally developed for PC, to both PS3 and Xbox 360, with indications of yet another port to the PlayStation Vita, and a modified version for iOS and Android devices. Is it possible for an indie developer to maintain so many different versions of a single game? Is it possible that two r...

Rating of
3.5/5 

01/02/2012 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

Tower Defense + RPG + Friends = A Good Time

What happens when you mix RPG, tower defense and local multiplayer action? Quite a bit of fun (and a fair bit of frustration - this is tower defense after all). I've never been a huge fan of the tower defense genre - mainly because many of these type of games seem insanely difficult for no other reasons than to make things insanely difficult (there are exceptions - Final Fantasy: My Life as a Darklord is quite enjoyable). However, add in a few friends, the ability to actually level your character, upgradable weapons and armor and, well, it turns out you can make things quite enjoyable.

Presentation
This is a PSN game, so graphically it's not going to be on par with L.A. Noire or anything. However, for what it is, I think it succeeds. Each of the four characters: Knight, Mage, Huntres...

Rating of
4/5