“We’re not putting up with those leafers this year.”
Polish studio 11-bit’s Anomaly series of tower offense games was so popular that for a few years they were an Anomaly factory, steadily cranking out new editions of the game and little else. They’ve been broadening their horizons this year with announcements of the refugee survival sim This War of Mine and the multiplayer strategy game Spacecom, but before they move on they’ve got a good-bye letter to the games that launched them on their way — one where you fight on behalf of the “bad guys”.
The previous games in the Anomaly series imagine an alien invasion of Earth. These aliens have unimaginably advanced technology but — lucky for mankind — have never played a TD game, so they plop their base structures down in a labyrinth for your intrepid human special ops chaps to navigate. Playing as the creeps rather than the towers has always given the Anomaly games a distinct vein to tap in an over-mined genre: there’s multiple paths through the mazes, tactically interesting special abilities, and customisable unit composition. 11-bit’s titles have been the pinnacle of tower defense production values, with big Michael Bay effects and full voice acting.
Anomaly Defenders flips it all around. The humans are the invaders now, bringing the fight to the aliens’ world. The aliens have recruited you to fight a delaying action against your former comrades, giving them time to skeddadle and prevent your race from committing genocide in their lust for revenge. It’s the first “traditional” (if a seven-year-old game genre can have traditions) tower defense game in the series, and it’s got a hell of an interesting premise. You Benedict.
Anomaly Defenders is 11-bit’s final installment in this series, and it’s out on Android right this very minute; it’ll drop for iOS at midnight tonight. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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