I recently came across this ‘Tower Defense Game’ called FieldRunners from
Subatomic Studios, in the Chrome Web store. Very immersive graphics in a
multi-scenario action coupled with a simple tower-defense objective sure makes
for an addictive fun gaming experience!
This was my brief brush with gaming after many, many years and was enjoyable on
that count as well. I had last dabbled with Travian, the Massively multiplayer
online (MMO) browser-based Strategy game, couple of years back. That was a
different time, genre and experience. More about that later.
I played the trial-version of FieldRunners which offers all 7-game modes (upto
100 levels) in the Grasslands map. However, when checked last, this appears to
have been scaled down to just 1-mode (50 levels) in the Grasslands map. The good
thing about the game is the variety of Tower-types and attack firepower, while
the graphics is amazing for a browser-based game. The only grouse is that the
enemies have been designed to be rather extraordinarily dumb – taking shortest
route irrespective of the strength of attack in the vicinity, while they offer
no resistance or counter-attack to the slaughter.
A good strategy for completing Grasslands map is something in the lines of the
screenshot below – make the runners cover the length and breadth of every
square, while getting the maximum time to mow them down. A dirty trick in dire situations is to keep changing the shortest path by removing and re-placing the basic machine-gun-towers, which would make the runners zip back and forth on the same path, while you get extra time to take them down!
