Tower offence sequel Anomaly 2 assaults PS4 this week

Hello gamers! It’s Pawel Miechowski from 11 bit studios here. It took a bit longer than expected, but Anomaly 2 is ready to land on the next-gen beauty PlayStation 4!

First of all, you’ll get your hands on it on 17th September in the SCEE. This day the sequel to Anomaly Warzone Earth (released on PlayStation 3 in 2012) will be available for £11.49/€13.99/AU$20.95 in PlayStation Network.

So let’s refresh our minds. What is Anomaly 2? It’s exactly opposite to tower defence: it’s a tower offence game. Tower offense in Anomaly 2 means it’s a mixture of action and strategy. You control not the towers (aliens invading Earth) but the attackers which are human forces trying to save the planet.

 
In Anomaly 2 the story continues right after the invasion of Earth in 2018 that took place in the predecessor Anomaly Warzone Earth. Our planet is controlled by the aliens and humankind is almost extinct. Those who managed to survive are grouped in convoys. Your convoy is called Yukon and you are the Commander, being right in the battlefield and supporting troops in your convoy through four special abilities which you deploy during the missions.

The very first ability available to you is Repair which is basically an Area of Effect healing. Next we have Decoy – an ability that baits aliens’ towers to attack the decoy and not the troops. The third skill in your arsenal is EMP, which briefly stuns towers which will not activate again if not attacked. Last but not least is AIM, a skill that doubles the damage of your troops; it’s used to destroy the high priority targets.

Every mission is presented from a top-down view. Thanks to that you can see how as the Commander you morph your units. There are five different unit classes (and every class can be upgraded), each having two morphing modes which opens a lot of tactical opportunities to players. For example, Rocket Hammer, which has the highest damage of all units in the convoy and has a 360 degrees view, can be morphed into Sledge Hammer which has a higher range, but cannot attack units on its sides as it has a 30 degree forward firing arc.

Morphing of units is not the only cool addition! We’ve also created a multiplayer mode where opponents choose sides, either aliens or humans, and square off to see who’s the best kid on the block. Multiplayer is a mix of regular tower defence gameplay (where one of the players controls towers and upgrades them) and the tower offense familiar from the single player missions. MP mode offers a tech-tree to develop unique strategies. And keep in mind that MP mode’s pace is faster than in single-player! I guess this is the very first strategy game where tower offense meets tower defence.

 
In total there are 14 missions (and a prelude) in the single-player campaign. In the MP mode, there are various maps offering either quick or longer battles, from small maps to big ones with various winning conditions, but I guess total annihilation of the enemy is the coolest! Plus the graphic design is just beautiful; perfectly rendered world and improved visual engine working in 1080 HD resolution.

Music once again has been created by Piotr Musial, who made the soundtrack for Anomaly Warzone Earth too. If you’re a game music fan, we have shared all of our OSTs with the public. They can be downloaded HERE.

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