IGN writes: "After several solo visits to adorable Ninjatown we finally got to play its head-to-head multiplayer mode. Ninjatown is a Tower Defense-style game that plays like a breezy RTS. If you played PixelJunk Monsters on the PlayStation 3, this is pretty much the same thing with ninjas. Your task is to defend the titular town from waves of invading demons and evil ninjas. You have a limited amount of resources to build huts that spawn soldiers who will engage the attackers. Resource management is the name of the game, and you'll have to pick your build locations carefully.
Multiplayer matches play much like the single-player game, only you're competing to win each wave of enemies, or "round." Both players attend to the same map, separately on their own DS. The first to defeat a wave wins, and the loser has to give up a heart. You start with 10 hearts, and when they run out the match is over. To keep things interesting, the loser of a round takes half the winner's cookies, which are the resources you use to build ninja huts. We found a useful strategy is to spend your cookies upgrading your huts right before your victory. The winner receives a bonus attack such as a baby ninja that can be dropped into battle (it's too cute to ignore so your enemies will be distracted)."
Vgamerz writes: "As we know, licensed games are always a dodgy prospect. Alarm bells start to ring at the very mention of a ‘game-of-the-film,’ and we know they’re in immediate danger of rating high on the crapometer. For this egregious prejudice, I blame Superman 64 and its legacy of awful."
GR - "Tower defense has come a long way since its inception in Warcraft 3. Find out what the best of the tower defense genre has to offer."
Cue "but you didn't include my favorite!" comment: PixelJunk Monsters is the best TD game ever. Fact. :)
Wish Ninja Town would get ported to PC or something.
Edit: Cat, when reading this, I was thinking you'd say just that :P
It's good to see they remembered Defense Grid: The Awakening. It's the best tower defense game, when I start playing it, I just can't stop. I played many others, including Plants Vs Zombies and Ninjatown, but none gets close to Defense Grid.
StartGame: A volcano erupts near Ninjatown, which brings along Mr Demon and his hordes of devils, who are bent on the destruction of the town.