Fin writes: "Following Kingdom Rush and Kingdom Rush Frontiers, Kingdom Rush Origins offers up even more of that tower defence goodness on Xbox consoles."
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Kingdom Rush Origins is yet another entry into the vast but niche tower defense sub-genre of strategy games. Contrary to the name, Origins is actually the third entry to the Kingdom Rush series. I have not played the previous entries so I cannot compare it to its prequels (well, sequels in a timeline sense), but I do know a thing or two about tower defense after all. As this is an origin story, Origins will explain how the main villain of the last two entries, Vez’nan, became corrupt with power. Malicia, Queen of the Twilight Elves, takes the role of villainess for this story.
I have to say that I was somewhat surprised to read that the game is very good, then again, I had no high expectations for this title.
With tech companies dropping the Android OS onto anything that will hold a charge and heavy hitters like NVIDIA building dedicated gaming devices for it, the once red-headed stepchild of the mobile industry has flourished over the last few years, and Android gaming has gone along for the ride. The platform has in fact become a gold mine for some. Roll into this mix Android’s low threshold point of entry and a Wild West open market and you have a unique platform that to date has seen over 31 trillion downloads, about two trillion more than its only real competitor: Apple.
