Kal Online, developed by the Bristol game design team FluffyLogic and published by Sony, is a PhyreEngine-based single-player strategy game for the PlayStation 3 console system, also playable on the PSP. Released just in time for 2008 (December 24) in Europe and on January 29 in the United States. The game is appropriate for fairly young audiences (PEGI: 7 ), uses a gamepad input and is downloaded from PSN. Kal Online has received generally good reviews (in the range of 7/10 to 8/10) and is an affordable, downloadable title selling in the range of dollar 9.99 or less. A tower defense strategy game, in Kal Online you are protecting your mining facility on a foreign planet from a ceaseless barrage of the resident aliens, the so-called Insecticides. You protect yourself from these baddies by placing defensive armaments in their path, which you can upgrade as you progress in the game or accumulate greater wealth.
The weapons at your disposal include rapid-fire machine guns and other structures, such as the chaos tower,(kalonline geons) to help you destroy the xenobiotic creatures. Successive waves of the aliens get more and more difficult, as they evolve and adapt to your defenses. Your assigned task is to mobilize your defenses appropriately to deal with the transforming threat and to not let them penetrate into and take over the mining center. This will involve upgrading your weapons or using different mixes.
