If there’s one movie series I adore more than Back to the Future , Indiana Jones , and Star Wars combined, it’s the Lord of the Rings . You don’t need me to tell you why Peter Jackson’s immense films, based on the works of JRR Tolkien, make one masterpiece – it’s common knowledge. And, with merchandise ranging from jewellery , to coins , cards , and stamps , its surprising to hear that an official Lord of the Rings themed iDevice game hasn’t yet graced the App Store
Overview Fieldrunners is a tower defense game designed for the iPhone that had been redesigned for the iPad, to learn all about it see our review of the iPhone version . Note all images are clickable for the iPad size. Features Let’s jump into the features.
Subatomic Studios contacted us today to discuss their plans to update a game that hasn’t even been released. Fieldrunners for iPad will launch with the iPad App Store April 3rd, and as soon as it does Subatomic Studios will begin tweaking the game with the device actually in their hands. There may be a quick update with anything they learn from actually holding the device, but they have much bigger plans down the road. Fieldrunners for iPad features all five of the maps in the iPhone version with amazingly deluxe high resolution graphics, and truly redesigned animations all for $7.99. More is coming though with brand new features that are only possible on the iPad, and are truly game changing that any other tower defense game can’t even fathom. This will bring the entire genre to a whole new level with a new core feature set. Not much could be discussed at this point, but it will be a much more social experience. Our assumption is being able to play Fieldrunners with a friend on the same iPad in ways we can’t even think of, though it couldn’t be confirmed nor denied. The new features claim to “double the fun” if that’s any indication. Subatomic Studios also said that they plan to support free and paid DLC for the iPad as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch. New additions will be free for the coming months especially this new core feature set. New maps will be coming as well, and any paid dlc content will be part of an update that provides free content as well. I was also able to find out more about Fieldrunners for iPad. The game screenshots show half of a map, but it was confirmed you can easily play seeing the whole map at once and see all of the animations as well. Speaking of animations there is a whole new engine providing different death animations of each Fieldrunner. They will collapse differently, be blasted off randomly, and even have some x-ray look on electrocution from the Tesla Towers. We were provided with five high resolution screenshots of Fieldrunners for iPad to truly see the difference and what Subatomic Studios has been working on. When I saw these my mouth simply dropped open from the stark difference between the iPad and iPhone versions. Please click to see them full iPad size. Enjoy: Related Posts Fieldrunners for iPad Will Be Part of The iPad App Store Grand Opening – Plus Screenshots Want To Play Hungry Hungry Hippos On You iPad? You Can With The Next Closest Thing Dopey Dopey Dodos Gameloft Hitting the iPad Hard With Eight Launch Titles – Plus A Bunch of Screenshots Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition For iPad Approved For April 3rd Launch Plants Vs Zombies HD Part of the iPad App Store Grand Opening