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PixelJunk Monsters is a realtime strategy game developed by Q-Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released in 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and the PSP. This game features single-player and two player cooperative modes.

PixelJunk Monsters received generally extremely positive reviews from the gaming press; it was praised for its simple but effective gameplay, as well as for its interesting and challenging defense system. An expansion pack was released with 15 fifteen additional levels.

This game takes place in a fantasy medieval universe; it is inspired by the tower defense system, consequently your mission consists of defending your base against hordes of evil monsters by building towers that have several attributes to resist to your opponents.

You will play throughout 21 different (36 with the expansion pack) stages with three types of difficulty for single-player and offline multiplayer cooperative modes; in addition to this it also offers you an online support leaderboards for both 1 player and 2 players cooperative. There are also 3 special stages that unlock unique abilities for your character.

You have to stop numerous waves of monsters by placing your defense towers around the path that lead to your base. You have to stop them before they achieve to reach the end of this path. To complete this task your towers will dispose of rapid fire, short distance, air defense, slowing abilities, etc.

When you successfully destroyed enemies you will get coins and even sometimes gems that you can use later to build new towers or upgrade them. There are also small tweaks to gameplay; for instance, the ice tower is unlocked at the beginning of every level and the tesla tower is less expensive to purchase.

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