

The first things to master are the types of Units on offer, how to move them, how to buy them, and how to fight with them. Your task is to survive these waves of attacking Units and protect your base. Waves of enemies will approach your base, try to eliminate your Units and, upon attacking your base enough, leave you with a Game Over screen. The main game type encountered in the 1-player campaign is Defense. Thankfully, this is remedied by a very helpful and easy to follow Tutorial Mode that explains all the necessary basics from choosing units to upgrading and camera movement. If tower defence or strategy type games are not your thing, Cubemen 2 can seem overwhelming upon first loading it up. So all in all, with a budget price, Cubemen is worth the money if you need a dose of tower defense fix.Other formats available: Steam, App StoreĬubemen 2 is fast-paced 3D tower defence-strategy game in which players control an army of Cubemen, using them to battle against enemies in a range of modes, including Capture The Flag, Skirmish and Territory, in single player and online 6-player cross-platform games. Even though the look of the game is dull, the element of moving the guards (Cubemen) around any number of times makes the game interesting. The developers at Three Sprockets have created a fine tower defense hybrid title.


The good thing about this simplicity is that it needs minimal resources on the system and therefore runs without any glitches. The shadowing looks okay and there are a few colors here and there which looks okay going with the simplicity of the game but this does mean that it is going to get no appreciation for its graphics. Even a little texture to this grey area would have done the trick but as it is, it looks very dull. For example the floating cubes against pure dark grey background look incomplete. In fact at a few places it looks simple to a level of fault. Cubemen has 20 different levels specifically designed for this mode, so, these levels along with the single player modes, are enough to keep you busy while playing the game.Īs one might except with all cube game play, the graphics of the game are too simple. Here you practically play two games until someone's base is destroyed.

The main attraction of the game is the Skirmish mode where you are up against the AI or another player. There is no shortage of design varieties and you will always find something interesting or strategic to use, like the elevated portions add to your defense value. As mentioned above, the game interface is completely designed and composed on cubes with bridges, floating cube platforms and elevated portions. The single player mode has 6 levels and is like any other tower defense game. As the game progresses the enemies continue to push your Cubemen further until they are destroyed. Pick anyone of your Cubemen and place them wherever you any number of times. Though your Cubemen can't be upgraded, it is not necessary that you keep them at the same location where you placed them initially. You have to deploy your Cubemen at strategic locations which decide the result of the game. It is a strategy based game where you have to protect your base from the approaching hoard of enemies. Starting from the towers to your men, all are cube shaped making the Cubemen title name appropriate. This combination has been ingrained into our heads and in Three Sprockets new tile Cubemen too we can see the same color combinations of men standing against each other.Ĭubemen is a tower defense/RTS hybrid game which takes its title seriously and has the whole game designed on cub shapes. In video games, you might have noticed or not, but most multiplayer games come out with red and blue teams. margarine? These are some matchups which have been there since time immemorial and defy any reason or logic for their being against each other. white color? Or why it is already butter vs. Have you ever wondered why Chess boards have vessels in black vs.
CUBEMEN GAMEPLAY PC
Pros: Simplistic approach, tower defense game with a interestingly different approach of cube based game designĬons: Graphics are dull with empty spaces showing up as dull grayĭetailed review of PC tower defense game Cubemen
