Reviews for XENO TACTIC

[WaterCloset]

Complete and utter rip off.

I'd really like this submission if any of the concept was your own. I mean for crying out loud it's a complete copy of "Desktop Defence" with different, and not neccessarily better, graphics. You cannot have missed it- the level up system is identical, the prices are identical, and for crying out loud the highest gun levels are identical! You even kept the tower size as twice the size of the enemy!

The only differences I can see between the games are the graphics, which must be where 90% of your work went, and removal of some key features from the original- the 'cute' graphics style, the hotkeys, the massive field scale, the level-warning bar (that tells you several levels ahead what's coming next) and any shred of originality.

Don't claim someone else's work is your own. It's not good. Sure, you made it slightly prettier, but it's still their concept, their design, their balanced game engine and their sweat that went into it. If only there was some way to Rate on the basis of originality... I suppose 'style' will have to do.

Anyone who liked this game, google "Desktop Tower Defence". You'll see what I mean.

[Jatopian]

Mostly a copy of Desktop Tower Defence

For serious. The functionality of every tower corresponds to one of these. Your missions greatly resemble the difficulty levels.
I'm not going to post the link to Desktop Tower Defence because it's not on Newgrounds AFAIK & I don't want to be banned.

[Lukelesaber]

This game.....

Sucks balls.... I am sorry but the turrets don't even shoot things clearly in front of it... Ill give it 10 for sound and 9 for graphics but plus make give the turrets SOME actually smarts....

[Dracobest]

A copy of Desktop Tower Defense

As I played, I notice one thing: The lay-out from the 2nd stage and over, as well as the tower area of effect, upgrades, the monster's special abilities and more have proved to be identic to Desktop Tower Defense. A pure copy, and I don't see any reference to it. When I noticed that the basic tower upgraded to a sniper tower, it caught my attention to that. Then, when I looked at the fast tower upgrades, I thought of one thing: the last update will give a 400% upgrade to damage. And it did.

Desktop Tower Defense was released very long ago, and looking at the date of submittion of Xeno Tactic, I can tell Xeno Tactic has clearly been released after Desktop TD.

The 1 point I give is for the effort for making the graphics.

[JettComic]

Complete ripoff

The best part about this game is that it's a ripoff of Desktop Tower Defence almost down to the very last detail and then you have the gall to put "ANY DISTRIBUTION/DUPLICATION IS STRICTLY NOT ALLOWED" on your title screen.

Nevertheless, I'll attempt to do an objective review. Let's see, since the "style" and "interactivity" are both straight out of DTD and if it turned out you just decompiled the DTD flash and stole the code I wouldn't be surprised in the least. So those are automatic zeroes; sorry, I'm only giving you points for things you did yourself.

The graphics aren't terrible in and of themselves except that they're dark and kind of your boring typical sci-fi industrial slop and besides they make the game run incredibly slowly if a lot of monsters are on the screen at once.

Sound is ripped out of Starcraft but I won't give you a straight-out zero for that because everyone and their mother rips their sound effects from Starcraft. However, the quality is crappy, especially when there's a lot going on at once (you start getting that wonderful "shouting into a microphone" effect), so I'm afraid that's a low score too.

As for violence well there sure is some shootin' and some killin' goin' on but whatever, I never got this category anyway. Is flash not good unless there's gallons of gore in it? Anyway, I'll give you a middling score to be on the safe side since as I said, I just don't know.

I'll give you a 10 for humor because of that hilarious copyright message that I mentioned previously.

I wasn't sure what to give you for an overall score so I just multiplied all of your other scores together and made that the result.

My constructive criticism on how to improve the game would be to scrap it and start over, this time with your OWN tower types and your OWN AI behavior and your OWN somewhat original gameplay system. I mean, I know that a TD-type games have a lot of similarities, I'm just saying don't make it a straight ripoff of someone else's version like this one.