iPhone Game Review: Frackin awesomerness – Fieldrunners – Tower Defense goes badass

Get it if: You like giggling while little guys get blown up
Don’t get it if: You have important things to do, like fly a plane.

I am a procrastinator, a darn good procrastinator at that. In fact if I dont procrastinate I get ill and fear that I may perish. The American Heart Association agrees based on a study I just made up.

One way to help alleviate the pain of getting too much productive things done is my iPhone and more specifically games on my iPhone. Recently my cohort in Ignite Phoenix collusion, JM, told me about Fieldrunners. I brushed it off as I always do when someone tells me about something I dont already know about to maintain the false comfort that I know everything.

I also brushed it off cause its not free and I had this thing about not paying for Apps. Once I finally caved in and bought the game I was immediately gratified with my purchase and proceeded to spend the next 2 hours curing myself of mucho productivity.

If you have played any tower defense games in the past then the concept is familiar to you. (If you have not then please go away, educate yourself, or continue reading along blindly.) The difference here is the quality of production. The graphics and music are really good stuff. Subatomic Studios has really gone into great detail to create unique characters that are reminicent of Team Fortress with some Ikari Warriors.

There are three maps (Grasslands, Crossroads, and Drylands) each with three game types (Classic, Extended, and Endless) and can all be played on Easy, Medium, or Hard. I have made my way to Drylands but am having some trouble getting through the Classic game. Its the frackin airplanes, just relentless I tell you.

Strategy is similar to other Tower Defense games, build mazes of killing machines and hit Play. There is a pretty active forum attached with the game and some of the dedication is borderline psychopath but to each their own. That said I would suggest taking a look there on occasion for some ideas of how to play as the openness of the playing field allows for limitless combinations and methods for you to totally fail bigtime.

Only negativeness would be the sense that its slightly repetitive, but thats pretty standard to this genre.

So please stop what you are doing and get Fieldrunners.

Edited: March 26th, 2009