VERY enjoyable! even more fun with friends who dont lag. Build your character how you want it. Make your own playstyle and pick 4 towers and start killing some aliens! I must admit, i only play Sweet autumn for how she looks ;)

10/10

ENjoy ^-^

Sanctum 2: A Review

You might be wondering, why am I reviewing it now, why not 6 months ago, or even when it came out? The simple truth is this. Sanctum 2 has been out for a little more than a year now and in that time the game itself has gone though many changes. So much so that it is hardly the game it was whence it first arrived on the market. Sure it's always been a FPS/tower defence, but in such a different way than when it was first released that a whopping 3 whole days after it's release, the Devs released a patch that set in motion the game you see before you today.

Now, your time is precious, and I understand that, so for those looking for just the short answer to the question: "Should I buy this game?" That answer is, unequivocally, and without a doubt in my mind, wholeheartedly, seriously why haven't you just pushed the add to cart button and checked out already?!?!

For those of you who are of the more discerning...Steam...Steam-inites? Steam-ies? What suffix do we use to classify the people of our wonderful Steam Community? Hmm I wonder... In any case, for those of you wanting to be convinced, there are several reasons why this is the game for you, your mother, your brother's dog, and that pen-pal Geoffrey who you wrote to and exchanged letters with in primary school from Uzbeki-beki-stan-stan, that always said he was going to come visit, but never really had the means to do so; still it was nice to see someone from the other side of the planet and who had just as many gramatical and spelling errors in their writings as third grade you did back in the day. Yeah, remember Geoffrey? Well even though he wont be visiting "Amerika", he probably now plays this game and if you play this game too, the both of you have the option of text to speech chat! Ah yes, you heard me correctly, TEXT. TO. SPEECH. In an almost Stephen Hawking like manner (until you select your character that is), you can wow the masses with literal pronunciations of the written English language which is always good for a laugh, but terrible for poor old Geoffrey who's been desperately trying to learn how to pronounce words that he couldn't learn from his Speak&Spell.

"Ok, so what's so great about that", you ask as you feel so very smug in your smug chair, wearing your smug bathrobe, listening to smug jazz, sipping your imported smugness coffee/tea/caffinated beverage, and occasionally adjusting your monocle...smuggly. Listen here Smuggy, have you ever heard Stephen Hawking sing the theme to the A-Team? No, you haven't? WELL I HAVE. And this game has let me do that, it sounded much like I thought it would if Stephen Hawking were part of the A-Team. "Big deal", you say? Well a little known fact about Stephen Hawking is that he has relatives, that's right, relatives! And whether they're actually related or not there's a player here in our very own Steam Community who goes by the very similar name of Tiger Hawkins.
*(Flashback)*
Long ago, in a galaxy far far away... he very bravely (and without the use of right pinky) fought off hordes of Lumes (the game's monsters) in a Survival challenge set forth by the Developers in Sanctum 1 with the promise of everlasting fame, fortune, and imortalization within their games. Alone on the battle field his war raged on, until finally, he cleared the threshold of damage being able to be dealt and beat the Devs at their own game! (Actually he just survived the most waves out of anyone...ever) He was imortalized in both games just as the Devs had promised, and he lived happily ever after.
*(End Flashback)*

Feel like the game has been out far too long for you to bandwagon onto? Not a chance! With every new Steam sale, a horde of eager beavers, not unlike yourself, flood through the gates of Elysion One Core Guardian training grounds and look like a bunch of fools until someone with a little more knowhow plays a map with you and corrects the error of your ways. To which you feel a little butt-hurt about it and you go off and play single player for a while until you realize that "HOLY CRAP, THIS ISN'T LIKE OTHER FPS GAMES IN WHICH THE ONLINE COMMUNITY IS JUST FULL OF RUDE ASSHATS AND TROLLS, AND THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO HELP ME LEARN!!!!" (*cough* sorry, accidental capslock and whatnot)
Seriously, the co-op community in Sanctum 2 is very quick to come to the defense of someone who is 1.) New. 2.) Under Attack. or 3.) Being yelled by someone who they themselves aren't pulling their own weight.

Want to be UBER L33T 360 NOSCOPE 420BLAZE-IT and go charging in head first, not a care in the world, complete disregard for your own safety for the sake of your own team mates? Go right ahead, so long as you have the right perks equiped. "Wait a minute, there's perks too?" Yes, there are. There are TONS of them, and you get to pick a few per map to help customize your own play style. Don't feel as though you need to be the guy mentioned above as you would rather spend your time building a map so that your towers do all the hard work? Sure, that's possible too! Find that you're at neither extreme and would like to join the rest of us under the Bell-curve? Great, see you there! *high five*

Character skins, DLC maps, guns, perks, DEATH, Sanctum two has it all! But wait, order now in the next immediate time frame and CoffeeStain studios will supersize your order by throwing in their trademark easter eggs! Ever wanted to occupy your character with some rad-arcade-gaming action while you wait for your online friends to decide whether to upgrade this tower over here, or that one over there? BOOM! Wish granted! There are game stations that you can find in game maps that will allow you to play games within the game! Game-ception! (Except that I really hate this trend of adding "ception" to anything that happens within itself. Yes the movie started it all, but the title when way over your heads. Inception, was what it was called because of the plot point of planting the seed of an idea, not because they needed to go 12 billion layers deep! Whatever, Game-ception!)

If that last point hasn't convinced you then there's not so much more I can do to convince you other than letting you know that this game has a super chill soundtrack, significant amounts of replay-ability, and you get to shoot things in the face/back/butt/weakspot, causes you to think and then punishes you for making bad decisions, and when you finally manage to beat it, you enable the Feats of Strength, and relearn every single mechanic the game has with expert precision, timing, and bragging rights per wave when the MVP status is awarded.
Buy the game.
Buy the DLC.
And maybe, just maybe, this wonderful game will reunite you with Geoffrey.

Fun to play, addicting and fresh; FP TD with the cheesiness to make it fun, but not overloaded on it. great game! didn't play the first one but this game sure made my day. Also cheep too!! 8)

i loved this game and i addicted it as much

- Make a Good Maze .
- Build a Good Towers And Overcharge them.
- You should pick up some good perks to beat the map > *it depends on maps*
- Shoot Enemies in the Red area to give more Damage to them .
- Sometimes Use Your long range Weapons to survive long enough with Some Maps
- Watch out flies if you Got hurt by them you run slowly.
- Buy DLC'S < They Are so Sweet.
- Here You Gooooo !!!!
- musics in some maps are another world :) just amazing
- If You Feel The game Too easy for you Then try to Enable 5 Feats Of Strength.
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i don't Like Much Playing Strategy and Tactic Games but With This One i Really enjoyed <3
10 / 10 from me ^^! .

Sanctum does look impressive, visually. The white laboratory theme from the first Sanctum is only a small portion of the sequel, with outside environments making up most of the campaign levels. Many of the enemies are carried over from the first game and look pretty much the same. The sound design is excellent, with great weapon sounds and music that sets the science-fiction atmosphere incredibly well. It isn't quite as much tower defense as fans of the first game would probably hope for, since more of the emphasis this time around is placed on the first-person shooting element. It also hides way too much information from the player, leading to a lot of guess-and-check strategies. The game remains a refreshing hybrid of genres, however, and many of the frustrations temporarily wash away as you lay witness to the last enemy in the last wave die, proving that your strategic planning and accurate shooting have paid off.

Funny and unusual for me game.I do not remember why I missed it last year, but now it has me fascinated.I advise all fans of co-op games.

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Really great game, fried my video card back in January. Welp, at least I got my card drops :|

R.I.P. Sapphire Radeon 4850 Vapor-X, 2009-2014.

Great Tower defence game, brings together most good TD concepts like a Hero who can move around and kill guys, walls to build mazes, points give power to towers, leading to upgrades etc etc. Oh yeaah and its first person, really good there too. AND AND AND it can run on computers that are potatoes!

only thing I can't really care for is the fact you have to level up to unlock stuff. I wish my friends could just join in as powerful as me. I'd rather collect all feats of strength than grind to max level.

Story: 9/10 (Solid, and fresh)
Gameplay: 10/10
Presentation: 10/10 (it's own sort of theme, +Originality points)
Soundtrack: 8/10 (not annoying not memorable)
Replayability: 10/10

Sanctum 2 is a very original uniqe blend of a First Person Shooter and a Tower Defense game.

Before each round you take time to construct/upgrade defensive towers, paths and then protect your energy cores from the hordes of different enemies until the round is over.
Along with the large selection of defensive towers that can be placed, you also have a nice selection of load outs and character perks to choose from.

Desite also being a indie game this really does shine with it gameplay, artstyle and excellent asking price of $15.

The game is best played with friends and Steam offers a very reasonable price on the 4-pack, which is a good idea for anyone wanting to play with friends.

Sanctum 2 is just amazing, even better then the original. Combining First Person Shooters and Tower Defence into one was an amazing idea, but giving it a bigger storyline and more in-depth characters just made it so much better. The DLC's for Sanctum 2 just add to an already amazing story. With it's up to 4 player co-op, perk system and vast array of weapons, it really made me want to just keep playing it. The only things that drags it down are the limited amount of towers, only three tiers for towers and the lack of upgradeable weapons. Strongly suggested for people who greatly enjoyed the original.

A fun CO-OP game!
This is a tower defence game and its amazing! the graphics are just mindblowing!
In this game you can create a class like the Call of Duty games!
I recommend this game for people who enjoy a little bit of strategy/fps and a tower defence game!

7/10 not bad.

+ Very well-implemented blend of FPS and Tower Defense
+ Good variety of towers that felt well-balanced and purposeful
+ Plethora of unlockables that go hand-in-hand with a simple experience/leveling system
+ Larger variety of weapons than what I was expecting, though you can't change your primary until much later in the game
+ Audio and visual quality were both satisfactory
+ Very well optimized game
+ Multiplayer co-op was very well done, and adds more replay value to the game

- Some levels can be inordinately difficult, even with other players
- In all levels, allocated resources are SLIM; often this adds to the challenge, but more often it will make you pull your hair out (Looking at you, CANOPY)

This game is ridiulously entertaining in co-op. Even though the last 2 DLC-campaigns were a little easy, there are still some really tough maps and you will have countless hours of fun :^)

This is really nice FPS defending game.
-FPS
-Perfect World

This is my best defending game for now

Gameplay - The game is full of surprises that will keep your attention till the last alien. The Game seems to lean more towards the First-Person shooter at the beginning of a round, then gets progressively more strategic as the waves come and go as you are able to build more towers. The combination of the two genres is almost flawless as the vast array of towers are almost identical to the character's weapon. The characters are unique yet can all be paramount to the group's success, as the player's weapons have massive firepower. In the later game, team-mates can really help.

Music - The soundtrack is amazing. There have been times where I haven't started a wave, just so I could listen to the music. The waves also have their own music, so hearing the soundtrack as I blasted lumes with rockets filled me with adrenaline.

Performance & Graphics - The Game mostly quite well on an entry-level card and looks amazing, however a few config tweaks can push it to run very smoothly and look beautiful. The art style and environment is unique as the game is set on an alien planet full of forests, Loek III, which has become inhabited by humans. The lumes are unique aliens in that they are not bug-like or technologically advanced, but are strong and will do anything to destroy the player's precious core. The lumes are varied depending on their role and rank, which makes it easy to identify the difference between a walker and a walker warrior.

The game is supported on PC, Mac and now Linux. Controller support is available, though I would suggest using Keyboard and mouse.

If you see this game on sale, I would suggest picking it up with the Season pass. You will not be disappointed.

You have some friends? You like shooters and tower defense games? you like achievements? get it! :)

Sanctum 2 remains a refreshing hybrid of two genres, tower defense and FPS. The result is a unique game experience. Its like a chilled out steely dan song, seemingly shallow, but accessible, at first but dig deep into it and you find all sorts intricacies, grooves, earworms and love.

Game : 7.5/10
Graphic : 8.0/10

They changed quite a bit from the first one. On the first one you had the choice of upgrading your weapons or towers. Sanctum 2 has a level-up/perk system which allows you to choose between playing more offensively or defensively allowing you to mix and match to your desired playstyle. FPS + Tower Defense = <3 And they still have those giant aliens that have big orange balls as a head.

10/10 I can put mines on my head and wear them like hats.

Fun game to play with your friends.