Siege Hero Review – A simple but addictive tower-toppling game

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By: Armor Games

Version #: 1.1.2

Date Released: 2011-08-15

Developer: Armor Games

Price: 0.99

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It’s a rare occurrence for an iPhone game to keep you steadily gripped and having fun over an extended period of time. Excluding frustratingly addictive MMOs such as Crime City, most iPhone games have an intense but ultimately short-lived charm to them.

Siege Hero, like the now-legendary Angry Birds (which seems to be the benchmark against which just about any iPhone game is set), manages to overcome this tendency. The premise is simply to throw a variety of weapons – rocks, bombs, hot tar – at destructible forts and kill the baddies standing around inside them.

Unlike Angry Birds, where you’d fire your birds across the screen, in Siege Hero you fire from a first-person perspective; firing into the screen, if you will. There’s no need for measuring angles or power, you simply tap at the spot where you want your missile to go. It’s simple stuff, but as the game progresses you’ll have to be increasingly precise in unloading your arsenal, as the structures get more stable and innocent damsels in distress appear on the scene.

There is a huge amount of levels in Siege Hero, set throughout different time periods. So just as you start getting bored of the Feudal Japan theme and samurais, you move on to Vikings, then Knights, then Native Americans and so forth. The developers are currently working on a ‘Pirate’ theme which is due to come out soon.

Extending its already limitless appeal, Siege Hero features leaderboards, achievements and a rating system for each level that avoids being too blatant a rip-off of Angry Birds by being in the form of a crown rather than a 3-star system.

Honestly though, Siege Hero appeals more to me than the iconic red ball-birds due to its satisfying simplicity. Watching a massive fort collapse in on itself due to a single precisely thrown rock is a thing of beauty, and this formula should keep many a casual iPhone gamer satisfied for a long, long time.