CGM Reviews – Warlords

Warlords as a premise back in the 80s, was the original, nonsensical tower defense game. Only in this case, instead of defending your towers from the hordes, it was defending your single castle interior from fireballs hurled by up to three other opponents. Mind you, this was back in the time when concepts like “castle” and “fireball” were represented by one big green block and one tiny red block. So it should come as no surprise that over the years, this old Atari classic has gotten facelifts and this latest attempt to do so—by no less than Atari itself—brings the action back with a few unnecessary twists that muddy the experience.