#Defense grid 2 free

They all look like some variation of a bipedal tadpole, and I mostly told them apart by size or color. It did bother me, however, that the aliens themselves are boring. Up close, Defense Grid 2 also looks a little jagged, and it doesn't offer anti-aliasing and other options in the graphics settings, but it didn't bother me since I played it entirely from a far away, bird's-eye perspective.

#Defense grid 2 free

However, on PC, it makes more sense to have a free floating cursor that I can move from tower to tower quickly, while keeping the camera stationary. The camera, for instance, is tied to the cursor, which would makes a lot of sense if you we're playing with a controller, and you can if you want to. It's not a big problem, but Defense Grid 2 has a few of the limitations of a console game. It turns failures into opportunities to experiment with new strategies rather than opportunities to stop playing. Defense Grid 2 lets me go one wave back each time I press backspace. One of the biggest problems with any tower defense game is that you often don't know you've set up your towers the wrong way until it's too late, and since progress is made at the enemy's pace, it can take a long time to implement what you've learned. I can hear and see what every single one of them is doing-my temporal towers transmit blue radar blips that slow down the aliens while my cannon towers exhale plumes of smoke as they tear them to shreds. Every tower sounds and looks like it was worth building, and 20 towers sound as hectic as I want them to compared to 10. My gun towers are spinning constantly, fountains of fire and bullets. My laser towers are beaming glowing red death at Holo Walkers, burning them up like ants under a magnifying glass. Now I get to sit back, watch, and enjoy the massacre. I've made my calculations, the right choices, paid close attention in the early waves where the placement of every tower can make the difference between a gold medal and abject failure. These aliens think they're going to war, but they're really stepping into a giant blender. I boosted my back row of guns and upgraded them to the max level. I preconfigured my cannons with flak ammo that makes confetti out of big packs of Swarmers. I studied the types of aliens trying to steal my cores and the ideal way to route them. I just enjoy the payoff for all the hard work that came before. I don't even have to touch the mouse during the best parts of Defense Grid 2.

Multiplayer: Cooperative and competitive two player matches, online and local