Revenge is a dish best served cold... but laser shooting cannon towers work just as
well.
Aliens have been invading from space since the 70’s.
No matter how much we fire back at them they keep coming.
Well a few more towers ought to hold them off for a bit..
This is Revenge of the Titans on PC.
Developed and published by Puppy Games, Revenge of the Titans is a tower defense game with
some real-time strategy elements woven into the game play.
You are in control of Earth’s defenses and along side you is General Red Eye here and
his scientist assistant, both sound like they took speech therapy from the same place as
the cast of the original Star Fox on SNES.
Anyway, Titans have come to Earth and you must stop them.
The revenge they are getting on is from one of Puppy Games’ earlier titles, Titan Attack
which was pretty much a remake of space invaders.
You start off with one tower, a blaster against the tiniest Titans.
After each mission you complete you get to choose an upgrade to help against the invasion.
Your buddies will make suggestions but you can pick whatever you want.
One of your first upgrades should be a refinery and this where the RTS comes into play.
These will be your source of income extracting from near by minerals and giving you some
cash to blow up more titans.
You can also micro manage your towers by manually reloading them in downtime and you have a
few bonuses you can put to use like bombs, shields and repairs.
At the end of every mission you’ll be awarded medals for accomplishing different things
like not loosing any towers or even on going ones like defeating a certain number of Titans.
As you progress you’ll fight bigger and badder titans and you’ll have to figure
out how best to manage your resources and strategy.
Once you’ve saved Earth, you’ll travel to other planets being invaded eventually
making it to the Titans home planet.
Revenge of the Titans can get pretty challenging.
Even tower defense veterans will find some things difficult.
Enemies won’t just follow one path, they’ll deliberately avoid barriers and go after your
refineries and eventually will be shooting their own weapons at you.
If you’re having trouble on a certain mission, you can replay it on an easier difficulty
sacrificing your gold medal which you would have obtained for completing it on the hardest
difficulty.
Other difficulties come from game-play mechanics which can be seen as some flaws to the game.
The advancement system is a little screwy.
Sometimes to get certain upgrades you’ll need a few others first, but these advancements
often you no bonus only unlocking certain weapons or upgrades.
So you either have to only take advancements that help you each mission but will make later
advancements difficult and actually some mission impossible all together...
or handicap yourself every other mission or so.
Also if you mismanage your resources, you might snowball yourself into a bad spot and
be hurtin’ for some cash in the later levels.
But enough focusing on the bad, there’s a lot of good to be had with Revenge of the
Titans.
The retro 8-bit look is really good.
It’s a nice throw back to it’s Space Invader roots.
Controls are nice and fluid with your choice of mouse clicking or keyboard shortcuts for
quick deployment of structures.
There are three different modes you can play.
Campaign gives you the story with the General and scientist telling you about new enemies
and incoming dangers.
Endless is pretty much the same mode minus the story and plus about 200 missions.
Survival lets you choose a few settings and generates a random map with one endless wave
of creeps with respawning resource nodes.
Revenge of the Titans can be played on PC, Mac and Linux.
$10 will get in command of a fun stylized little tower defense game and you can send
those Titans back to space in a million pieces.