The amount of towers that you can build are denoted by your resources in the bottom left of the screen and where you place them are dictated by the pulsating paths through the city that the enemy will take to reach your precious harvester core. So far I have described to you the shooter element of X-Morph however I did promise you that there was also a tower element! Before each enemy wave begins you have as much time as you need to construct your gun towers. To help you find time to charge your weapon a handy shield appears at the front of your ship to deflect enemy fire as you giggle to yourself knowingly that they will soon be obliterated. As well as the primary rapid laser gun you also have a cannon that is charged up by holding a trigger button, unleashing a ball of energy that wipes out anything in its path. Which city to invade first?įlying around in your X-Morph fighter is a fluid affair and felt very responsive as I avoided bullet fire while hurtling around the cityscape. No diplomacy here, detering the locals involves some mean firepower and a lot of wrecked hopes and dreams for the targets on the ground as you dust them away. You are required to drive the locals away using your pretty awesome looking X-Morph fighter ship. Once it roots onto the Earth’s surface you naturally attract attention from the locals who are keen to find out what it is.
I couldn’t help but think that I was being spoken to by a slightly agitated Optimus Prime from Transformers.Īs the city level loads up, a helpful tutorial video gives you a brief overview of how to deploy towers however if you were too busy having a quick slurp of tea, you will be happy to know that you are guided throughout the first level and any subsequent levels where new power-ups and abilities are unlocked.īeing a tower defence game, your harvester core which consists of a large vertical shard like space ship, is the object that you want to defend as it slowly begins to terraform the surface. Through a robotic sequence of events, Earth gets chosen and the harvester cores are deployed. The opening visuals are pretty cool as your alien race decide upon which planet in the universe is best suited for their needs. Taking to the PS4 controller I was intrigued to see how this twin stick hybrid concoction would turn out! Another busy day at the office… Gameplay Available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, X-Morph Defense has been in development since 2013 and unlike many games that use the Unreal engine, EXOR have created their own called Schmetterling which when translated isn’t an alcoholic beverage for an elf but infact means “butterfly”. X-Morph Defense by Polish based EXOR studios, who are responsible for the title Zombie Driver, is a tower defence game crossed with a top down shooter where (plot twist) you get to destroy planet Earth.