Master of Defense

By: Albert Lai

On: December 7th, 2006

It is so amazing how car manufacturers don’t seem to be able to synchronize
left and right turn signals. Is it that hard? Is on for one second and off for
one second too difficult? There’s always a moment when it seems that your
lights and the ones of the car in front of you are in sync, but it really isn’t
and there’s a split second when your brain tries to process that it’s
not in sync and things just go downhill from there.

But wait, there’s actually a reason for this post. I would be
regaling you with my marvelous finds of a quality RPG, but the only one I turned
up so far was Grave Spirit,
which is surprisingly mediocre and, actually, rather boring.

Instead, I shall tell you about Master of Defense, which is basically a prettier
version of the plethora of Warcraft 3 maps which involve building towers to
take out monsters that are so hell-bent on reaching the castle that they can’t
be bothered to demolish the very towers that are ripping them and their friends
apart. What can you say?

Master of Defense is a fairly
well-thought out tower defense game, involving nice graphics, a fairly addictive
way to manage and upgrade towers, and a difficulty curve that is just a bit
on the lenient side. But, on the other hand, Master of Defense is not shareware
– it costs, as we say here on the internet, 19.84 US DOLLARS!
Which is rather hard to justify, given that all it adds is three levels, one
more tower, survival mode, and online scoring.

Well, whatever causes you to
give up the fruits of your hard-earned labor for a product that may be inferior,
I suppose.

On the other hand, you could play what amounts to the same game, just with
prettier graphics and less special abilities with Tower
Defense, the free Flash alternative to Master of Defense that is, arguably,
just as good. In my defense though, I didn’t get it from Digg. I just
got it from a website that got it from Digg.

SUMMARY: Albert Lai cannot find quality games that are out of alpha. He also
cannot beat SCWU
to save his life.