You ever watch those movies that are extremely campy and battle of the dead themed. I am talking about Evil Dead and its counterparts. To be honest, I can’t remember all that much of them anymore. I guess it is time to watch them again. However, to my surprise, there is a game based on the sequel entitled Army of Darkness. Oh for the record, Bruce Campbell is the man. Anyways, Army of Darkness is a tower defense type game in some regards. I find it somewhat similar to DoTA Tower Defense variations. However, most of your “towers” are moving units. This is what reminds me of the DoTA TD variants. There are some non moving towers but I will distinguish them later. As usual, graphics play an important part. The graphics is more so similar to those sidescrolling platformers of the Super Nintendo and Genesis age. In my opinion that is a good thing. I rarely talk about the sounds of a game, but Army of Darkness is special. It takes some of the best quotes from the movie and implements them into the game. Pure awesome. Screw those that think otherwise. Otherwise, the rest are what you would expect of a game. You play as Ash. You can fight monsters as well as pick up coins and what I believe to be iron ingots from enemies. You have two standard attacks. You have your fist for close range which can be upgraded to a chainsaw and you have your double barreled shotgun. The game’s level up concept is solely based on the coins you get. The game is free. However, you can buy coins with real world money to get leveled up faster. This is one thing that I really like about this game. You don’t have to use real money to progress but the option is there. A lot of games like to “force” you to use your hard earned money. Leveling up ash increases attack power and health and such. As you go through levels, you unlock special attacks. These vary. However, they can also be leveled up with your gold that you pick up from dead monsters. Some of the special attacks are pretty sweet. And really, they all can be continually used throughout the later levels without to much of a difference in playability. They are different so you can go with your style. As you can only have a couple of special attacks at a time, you will develop your own strategy. Continuing through the levels will allow you to summon different monsters. You can only summon a handful of different monsters which you can choose at the beginning of each level. This is similar to the special attacks. You can upgrade these monsters as well so that they increase in power. You will need these guys and their increased power as the levels get harder. You build up your ingots while you are playing which allows you to buy these guys. They are summoned and help you fight the waves of enemies that come forth. They die, you summon more, and well you better keep on summoning. The final aspect of the game is building up the defenses of the castle. You are tasked with protecting the book. You can build up the armor of the cage protecting the book. You can get archers and catapults. You can even get a pit that when you knock back enemies near it they fall in. Most of these are upgradeable as well. Monsters vary enough as well to keep things interesting as well as figuring out strategies to kill monsters and especially when to kill certain monsters. Later on, it will become especially important to figure out when to knock certain types of enemies back into the pit so you can save some health. In the end, Army of Darkness has become the biggest surprise for me on the iPhone. I really didn’t expect that much from it. However, it offers a clear end goal initially and offers extremely fun gameplay. Right now, it is probably my favorite game for the iPhone. So guess what? Play This Game NOW! It is free so you have no excuse.