My partner would let me know when they had too many ground forces and I would swing by and bomb them into next Tuesday, and I would notify my partner if I needed help with very strong aircraft that needed to be shot down. Past building, if one player enjoys a weapon (I found myself infatuated with dropping bombs on pesky humans) and the other player enjoys a different weapon (my partner prefered the lasers) the co-op is very accommodating. This usually means one member of the team will be frantically building while the other is trying to fend off the unyielding human meat bags, but both players know that their roles are vital to survival. You have limited resources with which to build your defenses before a wave starts, but killing foes grants more harvestable resources so you are better prepared to build towers as the wave goes on. The co-op fits perfectly into every mission. This mix of building, shooting, and flying around enemies creates a feeling of beautiful chaos on each map, which is made even more enjoyable in every way in co-op. If youвЂ™re a more hands-on player you can take out foes personally or you can scramble to place towers and let your automated defenses do the heavy lifting - doing either or, or a blend of the two, is up to you. This balance of ship combat and towers is a beautiful blend that starts on the very first mission. The ship controls in twin-stick shooter fashion and starts with plasma cannons - an attack that damages both air and ground forces - as well as a chargeable beam attack that does massive damage in a straight line. The point system only affects leaderboard rankings and nothing in the game itself, so while itвЂ™s a nice feature, itвЂ™s also fairly unimportant if you donвЂ™t care about the scores.ДЄside from building towers for defense, the player also has the option of defending their base personally using the alien ship provided to them. In between waves you have time to build, but youвЂ™re given maximum points for finishing missions quickly, so lingering on building does not behove the player if the goal is getting the high score. There are different styles of towers depending on if you want long-range heavy-hitting artillery, close range flamethrowers, basic towers that are medium on range and damage or anti-aircraft all of this is your choice based on the foes youвЂ™ll face for that wave and how you plan to stop them.

The tower defense formula is pretty simple from the start build towers to take down the enemies that are sent at you in discreet waves. No matter which mode you choose, the basic gameplay is the same.Д®ach mission starts with players building towers to defend their home base - a giant alien pillar that is harvesting the EarthвЂ™s resources.

There are two game modes from which to choose initially, Survival and Campaign, and thereвЂ™s an additional campaign that can be added with the recently-released paid DLC, European Assault. Your primary antagonist, then, are the humans led by a general who is given permission to throw every one of EarthвЂ™s defenses at the new threat. X-Morph puts players into the role of evil aliens trying to take over the Earth and harvest resources from a variety of countries.

Even though it may not hold any new ideas of its own for either genre, X-Morph: Defense does tower defense and twin-stick shooting almost perfectly in every single way. Trying to pick a new game to play can be tricky, especially in the well-worn fields of tower defense and twin-stick shooters.

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