Comments on: 'Sentinel 2: Earth Defense' - Does It Live Up to the Original?

By: ArranX

ArranX — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:40:38 +0000

Just seen Zaks comment. "Defender Chronicles (I have to play the same level multiple times to power up enough to win it?" Thats because your crap, dont blame it on the game. And dude, Sentinel has 4 levels. What a stupid comment.

By: ArranX

ArranX — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:26:55 +0000

I have to agree with stormchild, I got the original Sentinel for free and wasn't impressed at all. In my opinion they're awfully designed games, enemies are just thrown at you down 1 or 2 routes over 4 levels. and "barriers have few hit points" is that a joke. You must be absolutley crap. And even if you disagree, surely it deserves criticism for being so tiny. Overall the series doesn't come close to games like DC in depth, variety or replayability.

By: cookiemonster

cookiemonster — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:53:08 +0000

how did i miss this td game?! looks bomb, checking it out now...

By: samsonsu

samsonsu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:34:32 +0000

I found fully upgraded booster brings most improvement to ion towers. Damage power of level 0 ion towers will be boosted from 30 to 510 (then 570, 630, 880).

Boosters don't bring as much improvement to other towers. Only 15% or so in most cases.

Strange setup.

By: MTFox

MTFox — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:05:15 +0000

I never played a TD game before getting the iPhone, now have 11 on it of which I play 6 regularly. "Tower Madness" started it for me, so I still have a soft spot for it, but Sentinel 2 is the one for me at the moment. Love the new foes and weapons!

By: dom

dom — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:48:17 +0000

I also have an obsession with these games. The creeps is still king for me. Just the right amount of depth, awesome graphics, and great gameplay. Sentinel is great though and im throughly enjoying sentinel 2. it is a touch easy though and I find the sniper is what always wins the game.

By: Adams Immersive

Adams Immersive — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:25:21 +0000

TDs are a genre with huge room for creativity. Saying you only need one TD is like saying all platformers are the same!

And every TD I have on my phone (many!) meets my desire of having some unique twists and strategy elements. Some are FAR from anything else, others just take a fun genre and do something a little different.

Sentinel indeed meets that standard. It's NOT the same as others, it has unique game mechanics. Is it for everyone? No; just like no one platformer is everyone's favorite.

I wouldn't have thought TD could be so widely varied (or even fun at all) but now I know better!

By: Ujn Hunter

Ujn Hunter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:36:15 +0000

Wrong. The Empire Strikes Back is obviously the BEST Star Wars movie.

By: GGiant

GGiant — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:29:11 +0000

Tmac34.. Most devs and studios work independently (as they aren't going to tell the competition what they're up to) and it takes months to build a game. Usually they have no idea what the market is going to be like when they finally finish and get it approved. So a TD game you see now may have been in the works since last October, and if there's a rush of them it's not necessarily because the devs are all saying "me too!", but because they had a good idea for the genre back when there weren't so many games of that type out there, and it turned out a lot of others had that idea too. You don't have to buy what you don't want to of course, but look at it from their perspective too before you complain. Believe me, it's really depressing to be working on a game or app for all that time only to find out a bunch of other people had the same idea. Part of the problem here is the secrecy at Apple and the month-long turnaround time for approval too; you have no idea what else is in the works unless you actively try to talk to the competition. (There are plenty of shameless clones too, I have to admit, but I'm just talking about when a genre seems flooded.)

By: Tmac34

Tmac34 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:09:42 +0000

I gotta agree with Ataru's comment above me. I personally refuse to, and will not allow myself to, buy more than 3 iPhone games of the same genre. I have 1 tower defense: 7 Cities, and I am satisfied with it. One thing I hate about the app store is when a dev is original and introduces an iPhone genre with his game, about a week later 10 more very similar games will come out, the devs being copy-cats. Whatever, just ranting I guess....

By: Ataru

Ataru — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:03:22 +0000

I'm done with tower defense games.

Developers, can we PLEASE HAVE SOME ORIGINALITY NOW?

Thanks.

By: Zak

Zak — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:00:07 +0000

Another vote for how excellent Sentinel 2 is.

I was disappointed in both Start Defense (brings nothing new but inability to see the entire map, which is a negative not a plus) as well as Defender Chronicles (I have to play the same level multiple times to power up enough to win it? You gotta be kidding me), but Sentinel 2 was a great surprise.

I ended up deleting it from my iPhone, but only after I had beaten most of the levels on Hard and because I couldn't stop playing it (just 10 more rounds!), and it was wrecking my life.

By: Bobster

Bobster — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:32:07 +0000

Why didn't they do anything with the graphics?! It looks the same, and that's a bad thing to be honest.

By: bfos7215

bfos7215 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:53:36 +0000

Sentinel 1 was my favorite tower defense game. I know Star Defense is all of the rage right now. But, it looks like a fairly derivative game with a 3D that doesn't seem to change the game any more than if they gave you a flat map that you weren't allowed to zoom out of all of the way.

Sentinel was also a standard TD game. But, it introduced enough new elements to make it stand out from the rest, for me.

By: yacoub

yacoub — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:50:16 +0000

Great review.

One cquestion is how you can (re)play a 4-map TD game for "quite some time" compared to other TD offerings in the App store. For example, I have Sentinel but I got much more replay value out of Besiegement and 7 Cities than I did Sentinel.