GROSS

The game is OK, I'd usually give it a thumbs up but the last money achievement needs you to spend hundreds of hours in 200 or so endless runs to get it, for context there's like 10 stages and some of them are unoptimal for grinding due to lack of space or divided spawn points. This leaves you with the town, city, desert, port and final stages. Let me be honest all of these stages are optimal because they follow the same criteria so it's like having only 1 stage for grind. The main gameplay issue I have with this game is the lack of focus on what genre it wants to be. -It sucks as a COD Zombies-esque game because the zombies are all going to a car to break it down. You can't do the tricks and strategies that make COD Zombies a good mode since you have a base that the zombies will break down, no looping zombies or any other complicated strategies. This issue would be solved if there was a "nomad" mode where the zombies' only goal was to kill you and you couldn't respawn. (There are probably major cons but since I'm not experienced I can't find them) -It sucks as a TD defense game since the zombies can "gunk" your towers with the sole solution being to shoot the towers. Have fun checking your whole track for gunk post wave 15 or so because it's what you'll be doing for the rest of the time. Another issue is the lack of money and collecting it. You'd collect the money automatically in a traditional tower defense but not in this game. You'll have to collect the money actively or de-gunk your ATMs because there are tiny leprecaun zombies and tax drones collecting your meager earnings. Another point is the lack of money, especially early game. You just can't set up a base to defend the van because early game you have no money and late game the zombie health increase rate makes it unviable for your earning rate. Another major con is the shield zombies and helmets. Shield zombies block all damage from the front and due to how the zombies go in a line the other shields amplify this defense. You have to get a specific upgrade to change how your turrets shoot just to somewhat counter 3 shield zombies being 5 cm apart. The counter to this would be the snipers since the shields have slits but alas, the second armor type which all bullet sponges can get counter this: Helmets. Helmets in this game is the worst choice I've seen. They make the meat shields that you'd try to crit either uncritable or hard to crit and IMMUNE TO SNIPERS. OH MY GOD, WHAT DO YOU MEAN SNIPERS, THE WEAPON THAT'S SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH BULLET SPONGES CAN'T SHOOT THEM LATEGAME?????? Unless I'm wrong which is totally possible because BULLET SPONGE is the only difficulty in this game snipers get blocked. While we're on the topic: bullet sponging of this game. It seems like you stop getting more zombies post wave 20 and the only change becomes increasing health for zombies... Dear reader this game has me scratching my head on how I'm supposed to deal with this issue even after 30 hours. The game doesn't get harder as the endless mode continues, it just becomes grindier. I know endless modes are supposed to have health increase but it's not the only thing that's supposed to happen. Give me more zombies! I don't get more money because the zombie number doesn't increase, only the health does! It becomes impossible to win above a certain stage (probably 30-40) just because you can't deal enough damage to kill the big enemies. Imagine Bloons gave you stage 80 for every stage in infinity mode just with more health until you couldn't pop the BAD anymore. -It sucks as a mix of these two genres because it has the baggages of both with no way to deal with them. I believe these 2 genres can be mixed in a way that works, this game just isn't it. For my final assessment, is this game worth the full price? ♥♥♥♥ no it's not, get it with a huge discount only, like minimum -80% or something. DO NOT GET IT FOR A 100% UNLESS YOU WANT TO SPEND +100 HOURS GRINDING THE SAME MAP.