A.I.R. Defense Review
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPod touch 4G
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Your goal is to protect your base from invading enemies, by way of building air units to take out the invading forces. Your have a variety of units to use to accomplish this task. You have planes and helicopters that can take out units with their limited amount of ammo before having to return to base to reload. You also get units that can lay down mines, fire a straight line of fire at enemies in the way, and ones that can reveal enemy position. The game comes with 5 campaign levels with a limited number of waves you have to survive, and then defeating these levels unlocks them for endless play in Survival mode.
The game does a mediocre job at describing what exactly units do, sometimes - the spy plane is introduced before you would need it, and so it's just kind of confusing when you start playing with it. On the iPhone/iPod touch version, it happened at least once where my menu where unit selection on a base was partially obscured by the menu buttons in the lower left corner. As well, the game has a lot of spelling errors strewn throughout.
AIR Defense is a visually unique twist on a couple of familiar iOS genres. While the game is sometimes rough around the edges, there's some compelling elements here for those who enjoy defense games.