Toys, explosives and War!

So I just bought myself the full version of the Xbox Live Arcade game Toy Soldiers.
Worth every cent.

Simple little idea for a game, and brilliant execution/innovations that make the game so much fun. Basically it's a tower defense game. However the little innovation that I told you about is the ability to take control of a unit that you placed. For example you can build yourself a mortar gun and then while your anti-infantry guns are blazing, thrust yourself into the mortar and aim, fire and even guide the shells personally. It's really, really, really addictingly fun.
So much carnage but at the same time none at all. It's a sort of comedic spin on the horror that was WWI...In stead of limbs and blood flying, howling screams, there are these little funny animations as the literal toy soldiers break apart into pieces of clock work.
So much possibilites and a nice little 3rd person add-in.

Which is only enhanced by the addition of multiplayer! You can go online and play against some randoms in an epic of WWI battles. Now you can only have 2 player and before you get dissapointed, I think you need to realise that this game is in essence a tower defense game...Which focuses on defending...Not attacking. Which means it's damn good of them to have multiplayer in the first place. It's challenging for sure, but ever so much fun.

Even the menus which are all done in the old sort of grainy film style are entertaining and music is of the period, nice and relaxing. However what I think I like the best, is in the ending of a match a little message appears and it simply says something like "Grenadist, you expected victory and you achieved victory!" A nice little personal boost, also in the summary of the match they have amusing things writen like "Highest flying soldier: 141.7 feet." Beacuse we were all dying to know!
They even throw in bits of random WWI facts, so for those that are interested in history, well heres some things you might not know, or want to touch up on...For those that don't know their history that well, thank me when you pass your WWI history test/exam.

All in all, I highly recommend this game to one and all. Lots of missions, lots of replay value and lots of multiplayer fun to be had.
Get it now.