PixelJunk Monsters

This game can be found on the Playstation Network for download onto your PlayStation 3. If you have ever heard of a browser game called Desktop Defense and like it this will be right up your alley.

You are a character that can move all over the screen, when standing close to a tree, causing it to highlight, you can choose to build a tower to help defend the people huddled around your base. The enemies will come in waves, and you're towers will have to defeat wave after wave of monsters. If a monster is destroyed, or you survived a wave you'll receive money that you can use towards turning another tree into a tower.

In the demo you have three types of towers that you can make, an Arrow tower that will do medium damage to ground and air monsters, a cannon tower that will do massive damage to ground monsters, but its attack radius is small, and a anti air tower that will do massive damage to air monsters. You'll have to find a healthy mix of all three if you want to be successful in the demo.

The overall controls are pretty simple, you're only going to have to worry about moving around, you can use the analog stick to accomplish this, and you'll also have to use the X button to bring up your building options.

I almost forgot, another thing that will appear after your towers have killed a monster are blue gems collect those and you can unlock new types of towers, of course you can't do that in the demo, but if you had the full version you would have some interesting towers to add to you arsenal. The gems can be used to upgrade your towers as well.

Towers will upgrade themselves by killing enough monsters, they will also be upgraded if you spend money or gems on them, you can speed up their leveling up by standing near the tower, doing so will make your character dance and you'll notice a gauge on the tower will start leveling up. Towers that have leveled up will have a different colored flag, notifying that the tower is stronger.

The graphics, for a SD TV, aren't that amazing, and I'm not sure how it would look on a HD TV. The graphics aren't ugly, but they don't really stand out. The game is basically 2-D with a bit of a false feel of 3D because the trees can be displayed on top of things.

Overall I'd say that this game is a 7.8, but then again I'm sure it could be better with a better TV and the full version of the game.