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The “tower defense” genre just got a whole lot harder. Behold geoDefense, easily the hardest, yet one of the coolest, tower defense games on the iPhone/iPod touch I have played, and we have two FREE CODES to give away (details below).

The super-cool explosions and “warps” are extremely cool, and stills don’t do them justice.

geoDefense is a somewhat unique take on the tower defense genre, and has some of the coolest vector-based visuals I have seen to date on the iPhone. You have a choice of 5 towers (Gatling, laser, missile, electric, and the super cool vortex). What might appear to be simplistic graphics, when viewed as stills are in reality some of the smoothest and most beautiful I’ve seen in a while. The screen “warps” with each explosion, and as faceless as the bad guys are, they each seem to have a personality of their own (and you’ll hate all of them).

geoDefense has a great sense of humor (if not a great grasp of spelling). The relentless taunts only make you want to try all the harder to beat the level.

The gameplay gets extremely fast and furious, and there is real strategy involved in most levels – tower placement is extremely important. You can’t “cheat” like in other TD games by pausing the game to place and upgrade your towers, so you need to keep a watchful eye on the countdown clock and time your upgrades carefully.

Conclusion

I’m ashamed to say that I have yet to defeat a level on the “medium” difficulty setting, but that didn’t stop me from staying up until 2:40 AM last night trying to beat the “Speed Round” level. To be honest I’m not even sure it IS possible to beat all these levels, but I love this game, as frustrating as it is. If you like Tower Defense games, or even if you’re just a gamer looking for a challenge, then geoDefense is a game you should be playing NOW.

Oh, the free copies

At the moment geoDefense is only 99¢, but we know our readers are some of the cheapest individuals out there, so we spoke to David at Critical Thought Games who was nice enough to give us two free game codes for geoDefense to give away to our faithful readers. If you’d like one, leave us a comment below. (US iTunes store only folks). We’ll pick two random readers at 11:59PM EST tomorrow night.