If you like tower defense games and have friends to play with then you'll enjoy playing Sanctum. The goal is to prevent the enemy from reaching your power core and to do that you'll have to build towers or turrets to slow down their route to your core. There are different types of towers that you can build but some turrets can only attack air units and others can only attack ground units. Your character is also able to shoot at the enemies with a weapon of your choice. Every weapon and turret has a few upgrades. The higher difficulties can be pretty challenging because of how many hit points the enemies have. Every enemy creature has a weak spot which means they'll take more damage if they're hit in that spot so sometimes your turrets will not be very useful. This game is pretty fun but there isn't many players online for co-op so I'd recommend getting a friend to play with.

Sanctum features two of my most beloved videogame genres: tower defense and FPS. This mixture works so well it looks like they've been done a thousand times, but the fact is that Sanctum is an innovative game in is own way. It's easy to explain Sanctum. Imagine the generic tower defense game. You have some time to place the turrets, upgrade them or whatever to avoid waves of enemies reaching the core. Once you've placed the turrets the round starts and it becomes a generic FPS where you can shoot the incoming enemies with different weapons. You can also upgrade your weapons just like you do with the turrets. There are plenty of enemies with different stats and movements, different turrets and different weapons you have to choose in the starting menu. The game only lacks some structure, as you can only select the levels and play them separately. No story or any connection between each levels. The game also features some game mods including a fun multiplayer co-operative game. I've enjoyed this game way more than I can tell.

Sanctum allows the player to experience a first person view of a tower defense game. The towers are easily build able and upgradeable like in any other tower defense. There is a twist, however. You can choose your character and defeat monsters by making them go through your maze of towers. The weapons and gameplay style is unique and provides a very fun aspect of tower defense games.

This game is a lot of fun with more than one player. The difficulty scales very decent with the number of players and different game mods really help to measure it. It is quick and easy to get a game setup without a ton of menus. I've had hours of fun just messing around with friends and the voice chat. There are a lot of cool features such as map ping, which all allies can see, and a map that shows the position of everyone else. I suggest to pick this one up if you are looking to spend a good time with friends.

FPS + Tower Defense + win poses = One heck of a game. Sanctum is your basic Tower defense game where you stop *Aliens* from reaching the end. At your disposal are futuristic looking towers (there's even 1 called, i kid you not, The "Penetrator"... which penetrates enemies. What were you thinking about?) and a selection of familiar weapons (the Rifle, shotgun, rocket launcher, even a freeze cannon). to allow you to personally enter the fray. The enemies are varied, from the basic scouts (think zerg rushers) to the heavy shield variety. Thankfully, the weakpoints of all enemies are usually obvious enough for you to spot - they appear as bright yellow dots. Remember to look up for flyers! Now, while the graphics are not the best (game released in 2011), the game play is still fun, especially if you're into this genre of games. If you can get friends to help out, it gets a lot more easier, especially the harder difficulties. Othewise, it's still do-able solo. There's even a wiki to help you design your tower structure beforehand. Aim well, shoot carefully, and remember to dance when you win!