Babel Rising 3D (Win 8)

Tablet Tower Defense

Babel Rising 3D is a Win8 version of the original release for the XBLA/WP. It's a fairly straightforward tower defense game, which has you playing a God, trying to stop the humans from building a tower to the heavens. As you play, you'll unlock the 4 elements you can use (Earth, Fire, Water & Wind), with 3 powers for each of them. There are also "passive powers" and scrolls you can buy and enable, giving you a boost to various stats.

Overall, it's not a bad game, though there's really not much to it. 15 short campaign levels (you only need to complete the last 5 for the achievement) and a Survival mode comprises the entire game, with a few variations of the tower to play through. It can be played with either a touch screen or mouse and keyboard, and both work equally well. This version plays much better than the WP versions, mostly due to the detection working much better on the larger screen. If you're only going to play one version, this one is definitely the easiest and least frustrating.
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