As potentially misleading titles go, Dictator Defense is right up there with Steven Seagal’s 1997 eco-action film, Fire Down Below. Alas, Digital Chocolate’s latest isn’t the Hague war crimes trial simulator you may have been hankering for.
Rather, what we have is a rather neat mobile tower defence game. You set out your units in a defensive position in preparation for the relentless downwards march of enemy troops.
Once you’ve cleared a number of waves (the object being to protect your rear wall) you’ll come against the level’s dictator, an amusing parody of a popular militaristic figure. Let’s just say that the first one, Big George, wears a cowboy hat and a familiar, slightly gormless face. Zing.The units you deploy take the form of passive blockades, banks (to earn you more money) and offensive units such as soldiers and flame-throwers. You also have access to a smart bomb of sorts - a Rambo-aping hero who sweeps over the field in his chopper - once per level.
