Zombo Buster Advance

Zombo Buster Advance is a tower defence strategy game. You have 3 to 5 lanes to defend in 50 levels with over 10 different units. The enemies are mostly zombies. There are dozens of different enemies. You can upgrade abilities, gadgets and your units with different badges. There are badges to make your units stronger, shoot faster, make them cheaper, give a chance for a double shot and reduce the time to place them again. You can even upgrade these badges to make them have higher values.

What makes this tower defence game unique is how the lanes work. You can place units through spending energy, which will be produced automatically throughout the battle. Three different Units can be placed on one lane. These lanes work as elevator. You can swap them. So, if enemies attack in the first lane and your units are in the last one, you can swap all 3 units to the first lane. There is a timer so you can't swap every few seconds. The enemies also have different advantages. Sometimes there are stairs which they can go up or down, elevators, teleporters, healing stations and more.

As most of the enemies are zombies you will face dozens of different units with or without special abilities or armor. Some can make themselfes invinsible, some give other enemies armor, some can open a teleporter and call out for zombies.
Your Units are also pretty different and have unique abilties. The only thing i don't really like are the boss fights. They are pretty much the same every time. The boss even looks almost the same all the time, just with a different color and a different ability. But, it's mostly just a tank. Enemies attack you on all lanes, while you have to beat the boss. Thats it. I would have loved for the bosses to be different or introduce new mechanics / a special battle.

I almost beat the game. 2 bosses are left, which will take aprox. 1.5 hours i think. I did not encounter any bugs. The localiation (german) is very good and professional. Balance-wise its all pretty good except for armor. Armor will make you reliant on using ONE unit on every lane as a must have. This unit does not a lot of damage, but shoots pretty fast, which is the only thing that matters against armor. Since there are armored enemies on all lanes, you pretty much have to use him. Almost all other units can reduce armor, too. But one shot means reducing one armor, no matter how much damage they make. Since many units take 2-3-4 seconds to shoot and do a lot of damage, they are not as good as the ONE unit which shoots every 0.7 or 0.8 seconds.

All these things considered, battles can still be played in many different ways. I honestly did not expect this much from a 4€/USD game. I'm pretty much overwhelmed by content. There are some 10 or 20€ Games, which don't have that much content.
If you like tower defence games, you should give it a shot.

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The first game was great. Its a classic tower defense and you can upgrade characters skills individually in spite of having to grind a little for gold. This game, is not that. You never have enough money or gold to upgrade troops, gadgets, or skills. The gameplay is too slow and you either have to grind a bunch to beat the boss levels or use the power ups

Is this an amazing game, no. Is it a great game, no. It is however a competent game and that's no bad thing.
It's essentially a variation on the plants v zombies gameplay style and it does it's job well enough.
I can't say i was enthralled all the time while playing this as it gets a bit grindy towards the end especially if chasing all the achievements but by and large it's fun and low cost fun at that.
6/10