Top five free Android gamesRobot DefenseYou don't get this tower defense game for free, but the demo is smashing anyway. Basically, the deal is that robots want to crush your human flesh and use your blood as some sort of newfangled robo-lubricant for their robotic joints. Your job is to protect your arse and the arses of those flesh-and-bone sacks closest to you. Regrettably, unlike lazy humans, robots will never give up. Their bodies may be destroyed, but there is always more metal. You must construct suitable defenses to ward them off. As they march in generally quite a straight line, this means making a corridor of massive weaponry. The problem is, while you're chuckling about how stupid these robots are, they're thinking of new ways to humble you. This might involve sending a flying robot, or lots of tanks, which we found had the desired effect of breaching our defenses and making us look like fleshy idiots. You get 20 lives and each time a metal maniac breaches your defenses, you lose a life. So, the goal is to ward off as many invaders as possible, and thus survive longer than your last go. To help, you get three different kinds of weapon--a gun tower, a rocket launcher and a slowy-downy ray. We, for one, welcome our invading robot horde overlords. CestosYou could be forgiven for looking at this article about Android games and come to the conclusion that we're obsessed with playing with balls. Cestos is the second ball-based game in this roundup, but with good reason. The first thing that strikes us is how incredibly awesome it is to have a mobile phone game that works online. That's right, Cestos is a multiplayer Android game--so you'll need a mobile Web connection to fire it up, but it finds opponents automatically. The second thing that's awesome about this game is it's got absolutely no tactics associated with it whatsoever. If you plan the move you're about to make, you over-think things. In fact, it's so fast you'll feel like the sort of person who stands in the milk aisle at Sainsbury's trying to decide if you want skimmed or semi-skimmed for 20 minutes and then another 15 trying to work out if you want organic or not. The best tactic with this game is to ping the little balls around the screen as aggressively as possible and hope none of yours fall down the holes. You see, a ball dropping down the hole is the end of the road for that particular ball, and if it's your last ball, the end of your game. The idea is, quite simply, to be the last player with a ball on the platform. To spice things up, when a ball comes to a stop, it drops a mine. As you can imagine, rolling over one of these pieces of explosive excreta will seriously alter your trajectory, potentially ending the game for you. The online play worked really well, with no noticeable lag, although the tension can become a little wearing after a while. Still, it's brilliant being able to beat real human beings and keep your balls safe and sound for as long as possible. This article first appeared as a blog post on CNET UK Crave. Tags: Smart Phone, Google Android, High Tech Computer Corp., mobile gaming, Abduction
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