FieldRunners Game

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!