Windows Phone Game Review: River Pirates

River Pirates for Windows Phone

The majority of the Windows Phones tower defense games take identify on dry land. River Pirates is the latest tower defense game for your Windows Phone that adds a fiddling water into the mix.

River Pirates has an invading horde of pirates sailing upwards river to assault your stronghold. Yous defend your keep past placing a multifariousness of defenses along the river'southward banks to prevent the pirates from navigating the river from ane side of the screen to the other.

River Pirates is a uncomplicated belfry defence game that has enough challenge to it to keep you interested. Graphics and animations are overnice simply also elementary. There's just not a lot of pop to the game only for some reason River Pirates kept pulling me dorsum in.

River Pirates principal menu is simple (and that may be a recurring descriptive term with this game). There are options to play the game, view your statistics, access a how to play carte du jour and view other games from the programmer.

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When yous get to start a game at that place are eight maps to choose from that accept various river patterns to them. Above your map pick is your gaming stats showing your game stats for that detail map. If you've finished a game using the map, the stats reflect your high score. If you have a game in progress, the stats reflect your current score.

Once you lot notice a map to your liking, just tap on "new game" and your in business. From the battleground you will see your electric current funds, the attack wave you are battling and the number of lives y'all have remaining across the upper left half of the screen. In the lower right corner is a push to fast forward the game play.

Pirate ships enter from the left and work their fashion beyond to the correct of the screen. Ships range from slow moving sail boats to speed boats to heavily armored barges. As you destroy the ships, you earn money that can exist used to buy your defenses.

To defend your land you have five defensive units. Y'all have a tank, a canon, a gun that shoots broth (slows down the ships), a rocket launcher and a flame thrower. Each unit varies in toll with the tank existence the cheapest and the rocket launcher being the almost expensive.

To place a unit, simply tap the screen where yous would like to identify the unit and a selection menu volition pop upward. Tap the unit y'all would like and can afford and yous are in business.

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Once in place you tin tap on the individual unit to pull up options to sell the unit or upgrade the unit. Each defensive unit of measurement can be upgraded three times to improve the range, fire rate, and destructive ability of the unit. Graphically, the unit will not change with the upgrades. Instead, the change is noted simply by a colored dot on the defensive unit of measurement. Green is level one, orange is level 2 and scarlet is level three.

Game play was simply yet challenging. Y'all use the broth guns to slow the ships down to requite your artillery more time to bombard the ships. Just if your goop gun misses a speed gunkhole and then you need to brand sure you have enough defenses down river to end the faster boats. You also need to maintain your defenses and upgrade them to continue pace with the more heavily armored ships.

All in all, I found River Pirates to be an enjoyable, challenging and addictive belfry defense game. While I would have liked better graphics and animations, what'due south in place works. River Pirates is a simple belfry defense game for your Windows Telephone merely it has an intangible quality to it that kept pulling me back into the game. If you are looking for a fun, simple yet challenging game for your Windows Phone to pass the time with River Pirates is worth a endeavor.

At that place are two versions of the River Pirates available. You have a free, advertisement-supported version of River Pirates that you lot can observe here at the Windows Phone Market. At that place is as well a $.99, ad-free version of River Pirates that y'all can observe here at the Marketplace.

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