Face the darkness alone

Jun 28, 2009 16:41 GMT  ·  By

This is a tower defense map constructed on the Village tileset with a size of 64x96, of which 56x84 playable. This is a single player map where you have to defend against wave after wave of AI controlled creeps. It's a very nice map with lots of upgradable towers.

As soon as the map starts, you will be asked to choose the difficulty level out of four possibilities: easy, normal, hard and insane. The game has 12 rounds, each round with two or three creep levels, one boss level, and a bonus level that consists of Whisps (with a high evasion).

Your main task is to stop the creeps from reaching the Dark Portal by building and upgrading towers. The portal initially has 50 energy points, one point will be deducted for each normal unit that passes through, and five energy points for each enemy bosses. There are 13 different towers that you can build, each with specific attributes and abilities: - Towers: 4 Basic, 4 Advanced, 1 Long-range, 1 Support, 3 Chaos. - Attributes/Abilities: Normal (faster attack rate), Fire (splash damage), Ice (slow/freeze effect), Poison (poison effect), Lightning (long-range), Chaos (huge damage).

You will have at your disposal three types of resources: gold, lumber and food. Building towers will require gold and for strong towers some lumber, upgrading towers and unlocking abilities will require lumber, creating builders and repair units will require food and gold. Lumber is gained by preventing Whispes from being absorbed into the Portal at night time. Whisps will not reduce the Portal's energy as they pass through. Players will also gain one gold every 8 seconds and one lumber every 12 seconds. Tough to kill units and bosses will bring you more gold.

You will gain victory if you manage to survive the siege and eliminate the orc leader in the end. According to a human archmage, the portal will self-destruct within 12 days. You will be defeated if the portal's energy reaches 0. By this time, all the life of Azeroth will be drained and all the terrain changed. The terrain changes are a pretty good addition to the map, as the Portal's energy points will drop, you will see the map changing before your very eyes: rivers turned red, mountains of lava taking over.

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The loading screen for Return to the Dark Portal
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