Our App Of The Day – Hills of Glory: WWII
Fans of such tower defense games as Babel Rising will immediately get hooked on Hills of Glory’s gameplay. The game takes place during the trying times of World War II, with your player trapped in a makeshift bunker, with only a sniper rifle to rely on. Countless troops charge from all sides, either on foot or from vehicles, such as jeeps and tanks. You’ll start out by shooting incoming soldiers, but as you progress, you’ll unlock new abilities to fend off the invading forces. These include grenades, lasers and a helicopter that swoops overhead, firing its machine guns.
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Players will be delighted with how easy Hills of Glory is to play. Simply input commands via the touch screen, and ultimate chaos will be unleashed. Tap on the screen to snipe an enemy, draw a vertical line to shoot a burst of gunfire, hold a position to pull the pin on a grenade or draw two vertical swipes to call in the big helicopter guns. More weapons will become available over the course of each round, including some devastating napalm.
Hills of Glory: WWII features 15 story mission, along with a helpful tutorial mode, the option to customize soldiers with special skills and a Quick Play mode, with unending waves of soldiers. The game also features full support for both OpenFeint and GameCenter, so players can share their accomplishments, trophies and highest scores.
"We’re very pleased with Hills of Glory," stated Vincent Dondaine, COO of BulkyPix. "Its gameplay is not only addictive, but very easy to get into. So even if you’re not prone to playing tower defense games all the time, you’ll get into this one with no problem."
"This is our finest accomplishment to date," stated Joe Suchandsuch, Mando Productions. "It’s incredibly cool to command members of your army with just a few swipes on the screen, and the ability to compete against your friends via OpenFeint and GameCenter simply sweeten the deal."
With dynamic, furious gameplay, a number of available modes and excellent visuals, Hills of Glory is a tower defense game that shouldn’t be missed. The game will be available at a special introductory price when it arrives in the App Store beginning of June.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
