I believe that I spoke too soon when I reviewed Cannon Brawl, as I referred to it as a “towers of defense” game. In all honesty, Cannon Brawl is more of a “towers of offense” game, as you have to destroy the enemy base. Now, Defense Grid 2, that’s a towers of defense game.

Defense Grid 2, or DG2, is a game that takes place in some intergalactic war. Apparently, Earth has colonized other planets, but these aliens have a pesky habit of invading these bases. For some reason, these aliens don’t bomb the bases from above, but they invade on foot, or tentacles. Honestly, I don’t know what the aliens look like because they appear as tiny dots on the screen with health-bars, but you have to build tower of guns to defend against them.

It’s kind of like some deleted scene from James Cameron’s Aliens, as these towers can create killzones to cut the enemy forces down before they get to your base. You have to make the biggest guns that you can purchase to kill them all, and upgrade them as you kill off more enemies.

I got a chance to try it out, and it is very beautiful and cosmic looking game. I would recommend trying it out, especially if you are new to the whole “towers of defense” genre.

This game has single-player and multi-player modes, and it is available on Steam right now. You can read some more information about it here.