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  • Summary: Defender undergoes a 3D makeover, featuring fast-paced action, strategy, and an army of aliens. A remake of an arcade classic, Defender sends you on a mission to defend your solar system and save the human race from alien invasion. In addition to space combat action, the game showcases elements of strategy, multiple types of humans to protect and use, ground units for players to defend and position, and bases to build and expand. And now, you can upgrade your Defender ships with special weapons, shields, and other technologies.… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Nintendojo
    93
    Defender is all about defense, which may be a major turn-off for many gamers out there.
  2. IGN
    70
    If you've played the original Defender, Midway's modern update to the classic will find a deeper hook to your soul.
  3. TotalGames.net
    40
    Suffers from a lack of any true excitement, and you really won’t care whether you win or lose. The narrative is dull, it looks like an old PC game in places, the FMV is juddery, the story a no-brainer and the controls fiddly.

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  1. TripleZ
    6
    It's OK I guess.... yeah the controls are kinda odd. Fun for a while, really nice cutscenes.
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  2. EricL.
    5
    It's ok, nothing special. good graphics, wierd controls, hard not in a challenging kinda way
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