Bloons Tower Defense 2 Game

After the first Bloons Tower Defense turned out a little flat and boring I was hoping that the second would be a marked improvement. The second game offers some additional features that help entertain you for a little longer...but is there enough to class it as a successful sequel?

Well there is one additional tower in the 2nd game, the monkey boomerang tower and this does not offer anything in the way of real innovation. It provides the player with a little more offense to use in balloon bursting but I thought this game was rather rushed out...having expected 3-4 new tower defense mechanisms of real creativity. Instead we were given 2 other small features, road spikes and monkey glue making this game feel more like a patch than anything else.

The road spikes are a temporary defense weapon that you lay down anywhere along the track to pop balloons that escape the tower defenses. Each set has the ability to pop 10 balloons. This can come in quite handy as a backup when your main defense fails to take care of all the balloons. It can actually prove a life saver.

The monkey glue is also a temporary deployment and can slow 20 balloons down acting in a similar fashion to the ice tower. Both the road spikes and monkey glue can only last until the end of the round.

Bloons Tower Defense 2 also features difficulty options: easy, medium and hard. So there is more of a challenge to the 2nd addition. If you're competent at tower defense games you may want to move straight on to hard difficulty.

Even though there are several difficulty settings I can't help but also notice the clear lack of level variety. There are only 3 levels, each difficulty has one level tied to it which means you once again soon tire of the same landscapes and dull tracks. This coupled with the clear lack of diversity in towers means that you will be loosing interest in Bloons Tower Defense 2 almost as fast as you did the first game.

The hard difficulty setting means that you have to contend with balloons coming at you from 2 routes instead of 1, which does provide somewhat of a refreshed challenge...but falls well short of making up for the other obvious flaws in the game.

Game Verdict

Having recommended number 2 over the original, I would still advise you to spend more of your energy and time on the third in the series which far outweighs the first and second put together.

* Playability: 10/10
* Graphics: 5/10
* Originality: 5/10
* Game Detail: 4/10
* Addictiveness: 5/10
* Final Score: 58%

Bloons Tower Defense 2 Game is a free online creation of Ninjakiwi and can be played as part of a large collection of balloon popping games. Play games online for free at Games Lunatic.

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