Toy Soldiers

Pros: Looks great, New ideas for the genre really pay off, Playing against a friend is alot of fun, Great sound track.
Cons: Short campaign when played on the easier difficulties.

Gameplay 8
Graphics 8
Sound 8
Overall 8(Our Rating System)

In all honesty, I dived into Toy Soldiers with a mind of predicted boredom. So many times have I played a tower defence game and instantly disliked it, for there ever so common style of play. I have to say that Toy Soldiers really did take me by surprise.

Your main objective is to protect your toy box from incoming enemy soldiers, you must stop the enemy with your own base that you begin to conjure up using whatever money you have. Money can buy a whole array of weaponry for your base ranging from heavy machine guns to awesome gigantic missile launchers. Once you have managed to toughen you base up to shape, the battle begins!

Waves of enemies will charge at your toy box whilst destroying your base along the way, your soldiers will so kindly gun down the enemy for you if you so wish but may not be as effective as the likes of say, yourself.

This is what Toy Soldiers introduces to the genre of tower defence games. The player can now actually shoot down the enemies using all kinds of weaponry as well as take control of the vehicles within the game. Innovation is the key to this title, it makes the game far superior to all other tower defence games, I have not seen any other defence game where you can control units yourself.

Toy Soldiers includes the option to upgrade your weaponry at a cost, once upgrading the weapon will do higher damage and last longer in battles etc. You will find that upgrading your arms will become essential out in the field, so you better get killing in order to be able to afford such features.

Of course this game doesn't seem to take itself so seriouslyNot only is the new game play element of Toy Soldiers there to make you feel more involved with the fight ahead, it also adds to the amounts of enjoyment this game has to offer. There is always a nice graphical presentation to Toy Soldiers, the environments look pretty nice as you sit within a boxed battlefield in someone's front room and all the character models look well rendered and made to look like actual toy soldiers typically.

Of course this game doesn't seem to take itself so seriously and with a game with toys soldiers in, how could it? You will notice the enemy soldiers fall to bits or show a comical dying animation which never fails to spark a giggle out of you.

In addition, Toy Soldiers includes a versus mode for players to conquer there friends in either split screen or online, this online mode is actually a lot of fun to play. You have to send waves of soldiers to the opposing base whilst of course making and upgrading your own base, its not much of a difference from the campaign mode of Toy Soldiers but it's the fact that you are laughing with your friends that makes this mode enjoyable.

This game has a superb soundtrack throughout, especially when you stumble across boss battles, some real epic music for your ears to witness.

For a tower defence game Toy Soldiers proves that there is still potential within the genre by adding new mechanics to the subject. Toy Soldiers maybe a short game but I thoroughly loved every second of it and hope to see a sequel fly into the scope in the future.

Reviewed by Nathan Cochrane for Yet Another Review Site.