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January 2009 Windows Mobile Game of the Month – Towers Trap

Posted on 18. Jan, 2009 by admin in Pocket PC Games

EC30’s Windows Mobile Pocket PC game of the month for January 2009 is Towers Trap written by Game Zone Project.

Build a barricade using 7 types of defensive towers each with their own strengths against waves of ‘aliens’ (8 types of alien). Certain towers are only effective against some aliens, and one type of tower has no offensive properties but instead provides radar coverage for attacks by otherwise invisible aliens.

After buying this game for my HTC Touch HD, I played it non-stop when I didn’t have more important things to do. It really is very addictive, easy to learn, but difficult to master the required strategies. High scores can be published to the web.

The game itself works well on the WVGA screen of an HTC HD, and doesn’t require any hardware buttons, although one problem is that the phone/battery notification bar does flicker intermitently, perhaps something the developers can look at. Also on the Touch HD, the keyboard obscures the screen when entering your name/group for high score publish to the web. A workaround I found was to press the Touch HD Home button, then go to Running Programs and reselect Towers Trap. The keyboard is then no longer activated and you can press the Publish to Web button.

Overall, an excellent, simple yet addictive action strategy game.

Tags: Game of the Month, Strategy game, Touch HD games, Towers Trap