When comparing Defenders vs Bloons TD 5, the Slant community recommends Bloons TD 5 for most people. In the question“What are the best tower defense games on iOS?” Bloons TD 5 is ranked 2nd while Defenders is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Bloons TD 5 is:
There's a great variation in towers, their stats and upgrade trees, as well as enemy types (bloons) and levels you have your battles in.
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Pros
Pro Visual Engaging
Compared to most of the tower defense games out there, this one by far has the best graphics. It's smooth and each map has a lot going on.
Pro Plenty to Explore
With a collectible card game included in Defenders, there's a lot to explore. The card mechanics provide plenty of varied strategies and collecting them is just part of the fun.
Pro Great depth and variety
There's a great variation in towers, their stats and upgrade trees, as well as enemy types (bloons) and levels you have your battles in.
Pro Clean graphics
The gameplay in previous games (TD4 and lower) was a bit laggy at times, luckily TD5 has cleaned up the graphics to make them a bit more simple while also allowing for new designs that differentiate things in the game in order to make it easier to tell what is going on. The cleaned up graphics also allow for smother gameplay due to them using less resources, meaning no more laggy gameplay.
Pro Co-op mode
Unlocked at rank 10, two players can work together to beat a game, with a set map and difficulty, of Bloons. In co-op mode players can transfer money between them opening up new possibilities of gameplay.
Cons
Con Pay to Win
While the game is free, there are a lot of in-app purchases. The purchases do make the game much easier.
Con Graphics Can Wear Out Your iOS
With intense graphics, comes intense heat. Defenders demands a lot out of your iPhones and iPads and can result in crashing. There are no lower graphic settings at the moment.
Con In-app purchases
This app does contain in app purchases, and plenty of them. Though they're not necessary for normal play, they are still present, and needed to unlock special perks (double cash mode). Everything else can be purchased with coins and bucks, which can be earned (or bought) through normal game play. They range from $0.99 - $49.99 per item.
Con Old graphics
Bloons TD's 2D Graphics are old and they don't fit in nowadays standards.
Con Coop mode networking is spotty
Frequent disconnects which can ruin a long game, no LAN mode or direct connect (it uses facebook).