{"id":13841,"date":"2015-09-01T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2015-08-14T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T12:00:20","slug":"pixels-defense-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/pixels-defense-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixels Defense (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PIXELS_BOX\"<\/a>The movie Pixels is about classic 80\u2019s video game characters attacking Earth, and now there is a game based on the film (available on Android and iOS, but reviewed on iPad here). You\u2019d think that a game that has Pac-Man, Centipede, Frogger, and Q*bert in it would be monumental, but it\u2019s just yet another tired Tower Defense clone. So it\u2019s not very eventful at all. Kind of like the movie.<\/p>\n

Each stage is in a city like New York or London, and you can set foot soldiers, launchers, and other military types to shoot down waves of pixel enemies before they reach the base. You can even set a \u2018ghost car\u2019 to mow down rows of enemies or bosses like Pac-Man. If too many baddies reach the base, you lose the level. Between waves you can use points earned from defeated enemies to build and upgrade more attackers. You can also choose two characters from the movie that you can freely move around on the screen to shoot down any stragglers, but it is hard to control them. You can even choose to play as Toru Iwatani, the creator of Pac-Man. I\u2019ve always wondered how he feels about having an actor play as him in a movie. Now I wonder how he feels about being in a video game, too!<\/p>\n

For a free-to-play game, you really don\u2019t have to deal with many of those typical annoyances. Even pop-up ads are scarce, but there are at least two buildings or signs that say \u201cDave & Busters\u201d on them in every level. Did you know that Dave & Busters actually got its start near where I live? Anyway, kind of like the movie, this tower defense game just isn\u2019t very fun. It gets pretty hard and just isn\u2019t that interesting. All the enemies, locations, and even the music are the same. But then, I don\u2019t really like too many tower defense games anyway. The only one I liked was one based on Regular Show, and it was more like a \u2018reverse tower defense\u2019 game.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"PIXELS_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since you\u2019re just shooting silly beams at pixels, it isn\u2019t really that violent. Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers will get frustrated at the difficulty. But if you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the movie, they\u2019ll be OK with the game, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The movie Pixels is about classic 80\u2019s video game characters attacking Earth, and now there is a game based on the film (available on Android and iOS, but reviewed on iPad here). You\u2019d think that a game that has Pac-Man, Centipede, Frogger, and Q*bert in it would be monumental, but it\u2019s just yet another tired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13843,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions\/13843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}