![]() ![]() Everything is color coded and oriented toward the correct player, so when you tap on an item you'll see the "upgrade/sell" menu facing you. ![]() There's a set of controls on each edge of the screen, and a player can jump in (or leave) at any time by pushing the little fingerprint "scanner" on their edge. Also, you get a different set of defenses on the various levels. Later levels include floating asteroids that block where you can place your defenses (and where the aliens can travel), or multiple entry/exit points for the aliens. Campaign has you work through a series of five levels: the first simply has two gates, and you have to survive twenty waves of aliens. The game has two modes: campaign or endless. I hadn't realized there was a version for the iPad for free (some are complaining that the latest update isn't working), but now there's Galactic Alliance 2. It was a lot of fun, and I played several rounds of it with random strangers. ![]() It's a space-based tower defense game that handles up to four players simultaneously, working together to prevent various aliens from reaching Earth (or entering various gates). I played a version of Galactic Alliance by Vectorform a couple years ago at PAX on the Microsoft Surface Table. The blowing clouds and various environmental elements are impressive. There are scenes in the setting sun, and scenes in the rain at night. The graphics aren't quite at Infinity Blade levels - when you get close up you can start to see the polygons - but the overall tone and atmosphere are very cool. There aren't hard borders marked, either: when you fly too far, you just get more and more clouds blowing over the screen until it's whited-out, and then you're pushed back onto the map. The main part about the game I didn't like was that there didn't seem to be any real indication of where you should look for the trinkets - you just lazily fly over large swaths of land, criss-crossing in the hopes of having something pop up on the screen. As you collect trinkets and skill points, you can spend them to increase various abilities that will aid you in the battles. There are also challenge levels which have you zooming along a path, collecting energy and trinkets and avoiding obstacles - these are pretty fun to play, and you can replay these to beat your own score. ![]()
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