While there are all kinds of different “Tower Defense” games currently circulating on the iPad, there are very few which truly strike me as an original idea. Trenches: Generals is one of those that is familiar enough that you won’t have a real hard time picking up on it, while it is new and different enough that you will feel as though you didn’t waste your money picking it up. The basic premise is this: either as the British or the Germans in World War I you are to set up obstacles and deploy troops in such a way that you are able to reach the enemy’s stronghold while simultaneously making sure the enemy does not reach yours.
The fact that the game is based on World War I as opposed to other war games that seem to love to give the players the ability to take on the Nazis is only one of the many differences this particular game offers. The game, should you decide to play the campaign, guides you through several different missions with varying degrees of difficulty, all involving you steadily advancing your troops and making sure that you have enough troops in the front line that the opponent cannot advance theirs. As your forces move forward, you have different units that you can produce over the course of time, with one of the most important being those that can actually first add wood and then stone fortification of a trench, turning it from a simple shelter, into a forward operating base from which the new units you create will spring forth. Barbed wire, gunshots and even gas attacks give this particular tower defense title a kind of realism I could actually see upsetting some of the younger set, if they understand just what they are actually ordering their troops to slog through, but it is also these original obstacles that continue to make the game fun. At some point, as you advance through the campaigns, you will actually be able to order mortar and gas attacks from afar on the advancing enemy, giving even more uncomfortable but effective carnage.
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