To get a feel for today's game before you download it, please check out several game play videos of Dino R-r-age Defense HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

Dino R-r-age Defense

In Brief

Dino R-r-age Defense is a tower defense game on the same lines (virtually a re-skinned copy) of the Royal Defense games we've been given previously, all that's different is the look of the environments and monsters, otherwise it's very similar to those other games, in both the mechanics and game play.

It was originally given away Oct 8th 2017 where it received a positive 83% from 24 votes. You can see the comments (only 4) HERE.

Introduction:

Enjoy the dynamic strategy game Dino R-r-age Defense and help the scientist save the time machine! Accept the challenge and destroy the legions of bloodthirsty monsters in the game Dino R-r-age Defense! Equip the vast territory with cannons and constantly upgrade them to get rid of cunning Fast-oh-saurs and merciless Spinesaurs from your way. Earn coins to upgrade cannons by increasing both damage and range of fire and collect stars to unlock next level. Do your best to withstand all the waves of enemies in the ravishing game Dino R-r-age Defense and find the way to return home!

Reference accessed HERE. 6th October 2017

The Game:

Review 1:

Dino R-r-age Defense is a Tower Defense-style game in which you must defend your base from the onslaught of thousands of dinosaurs. For this, it is necessary to mount several automatic defenses along the path that the monsters follow to their door. The more equipment you have in the scenario, the more protected you are.

Each phase of the game has several waves of attacks and, to protect yourself, you need to devise a defense plan while the dinosaurs are not coming. When they begin to appear, it is necessary to adapt this plan to the reality of the moment. You can even upgrade your defenses and make them stronger. With this, you more efficiency.

The game works basically the same as any other game of this style. To play, you must choose a point in the scenario to mount your automatic defenses. By clicking on any of the available points, some options are shown for you. It is necessary to choose the most appropriate one, taking into account the importance of this point and the amount of resources of its base.

If you can withstand all attacks, the next phase will be released. With each new level, stronger and faster dinosaurs will appear. The scenery will also be more difficult, so you have to be always on the lookout.

Edited reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by Leonardo Müller on 17/12/2014. Edited and added to by Whiterabbit-uk 2017.

Review 2:

In the PC tower defense game, Dino R-r-age Defense, players take on the task to defend the a research facility containing a time machine – from the ferocious waves of attacking predators, various dinosaurs. Desperate to make the machine work again, help our scientist recover the operations before the vicious predators obliterates them completely. Defend the base from their invading forces, and employ the use of different bonus attacks and strategic selection of defense towers to outlast the enemies.

At the onset, players are thrown into the frozen tundra, set as the battlegrounds to in which your heated battle of survival between the different dinosaurs take place. For the patrons of the tower defense games, the game simply plays a whole lot like other titles (especially coming from the same publisher) and should easily get you a new rendition of your faved strategy game. For newbies and the lot of unacquainted tower defense game players playing though, a brief tutorial phase is handed out over the first few levels of the game to get you accustomed with the basics of the game.

Like most Tower Defense games, navigation is pretty basic in the game as it employs simple point and click commands from your mouse. Players are provided with a row of helpful gauge icons at the top – such as the Bone icon, the Heart icon, and the DNA icon. Bones help players purchase a variety of turrets to put into play as well as to spend for upgrading them later on. There are also the DNA currency - used for passive upgrades of weapons or discounts to your purchases throughout the whole game for a specific turret. Alternatively, they are used to deploy units over specifically strategic locations in the level maps. There is also the “Heart” icon to show the current life of the player has for the specified level as well as the wave counter to guide you on the remainder of the battle.

Once the player begins the stage level, a pack of dinosaurs begin to come and enter the land. Players must strategically build crossbows and cannons on designated locations in the map in order to control the surge of attacking predators. Strategic placement around the map is crucial as some enemies might make it past the first few guns at the foreground.

Challenge in this game is well-rounded and interesting like most tower defense games. Players must stand against a wide variety of dinosaurs – all with varying skills and weaknesses. At the first level, players simply deal with the surging waves of these dinos, but then as you progress through the latter parts of the waves, they become tougher and a whole lot harder to kill. This introduces the need to fill the map with towers and upgrade them specifically targeting the different types of enemies.

Edited reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by Gameslands. Edited by Whiterabbit-uk 6th October 2017.

Other Reviews and Videos of Dino R-r-age Defense:

You can see Big Fish community reviews of Dino R-r-age Defense HERE and more information in the Big Fish forums HERE. There are several in-game videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE (game cheat), HERE, HERE and HERE.

Conclusion:

One of my favorite genres, but I did feel that this was just a re hash of those Royal Defense games; with exactly the same format, the same shop layout, the same awards, the same defensive towers, though re-skinned as well as other similar/same stuff. Still, it is well constructed and a decent enough game, which I'd score a 7.5 out of 10.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting Dino R-r-age Defense to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game is blocked by their security (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not) because Themida code has been known to hide malware, so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though they are actually free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. In the almost 11 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

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