Defenders of Ardania MD-02

The iOS version received "favorable" reviews, while the PC and Xbox 360 versions received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. For the iOS, Michael Halloran of 148Apps praised the game's visuals and level of detail, and expressed dissatisfaction only with the game's tutorial. Eric Ford of TouchArcade, another iOS reviewer, praised the visuals as "beautiful" and "gorgeous" and said that the game "is an excellent addition to the tower defense genre and is a must-try for any fan". Ford did, however, criticize the tutorial, expressing a desire for a tutorial mission rather than instructional screens. Mat Jones of The Average Gamer gave the game a highly negative review, saying that the game was not challenging and that concepts, such as the ability during one level to attack multiple bases and change which one player's units went towards, were never explained. Jones concluded his review by saying that "Defenders of Ardania isn't a quality product and you probably shouldn't spend money on it." • Illustration — Critics disliked that units from opposing factions passed each other without fighting. Reviews were universally less than positive on other systems. While critics praised the idea of the game, they found fault in the execution. Several critics disliked that the troops spawned by the player simply walk past the troops spawned by the opponent without the two groups fighting. The game's flow also attracted significant criticism, with Peter Eykemans of IGN saying "Even on double speed, the pace is painful. This makes a simple two-person battle turn into a lengthy saga of repeating the same actions over and over again." and Ray Carsillo of EGMNow complaining of "long drawn out matches on even the easiest difficulty settings as you try to force your way past a virtual stalemate". While the visuals did receive praise, critics felt that they also got in the way of allowing the player to tell what was going on in the game. Opinions about the narrator were mixed. Henry Winchester of PC Gamer UK praised the voiceover, calling it "a pleasingly booze-obsessed voiceover, delivered by what sounds like a Dalek doing an impression of Sean Connery". Carsillo was less kind, stating that "your narrator and chief advisor sounds like an awful Sean Connery impersonator and he may be the best of the voice actors you come across". Matt Hughes of GamesRadar+ strikes a more neutral tone, stating that "Pre and post-battle dialog is fully voiced by what are only technically 'actors,' but it definitely beats silent text, and does add a bit of flavor to the world." Multiplayer also received mixed reviews. Eykemans suggested that multiplayer exacerbates the length and flow issues already present in the single player game, while Hughes called multiplayer the game's "biggest asset", stating that "Playing against real humans definitely ramps up the intensity and reduces the cheap exploitation found in the campaign."