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Anomaly: Warzone Earth Review
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Posted by Donster on: 2011-04-09 12:50:41 172
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Strategic clicking.
By Levi Buchanan, IGN
An otherworldly dome eclipses the minarets that once made up the skyline of Baghdad. Beneath that strange energy field, dubbed the Anomaly, something stirs in the wake of an alien ship crash. Unverified reports say the invaders have set up defenses surrounding the wreckage, but unconfirmed theories don't cut it anymore. A team must be sent into the dome to investigate and see just who has taken up residence on the former site of Babylon. You are going to lead that team.
However, Anomaly is not an ass-kicking, kill-'em-all alien shooter. Instead, it's a smart riff on the tower defense formula. Instead of setting up lines of defenses for incoming crawlers, you are the forces that must survive the gauntlet. The aliens have many different weapons with myriad strengths and weakness, so survival depends on your ability to outflank (and out-think) these extra-terrestrial cutthroats.
Read on...
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