StickWarsI couldn’t do a review of Castle Smasher without following it up with it’s opposite.  In case you have not seen StickWars, it is a $0.99 hit at the iTunes store.  A light version is available for free.  

In the app, you play the defender of the castle.  You can capture guys and turn them into archers, repairmen, and “wizards”.  They can help you repel the attacks.  While Castle Smasher requires some thought, this game is primarily about reaction.  No thought necessary. 

The game has options for sound, music, level of blood (screen shot has it on high), and so forth.  To defend your castle, you can “flick” the little stick guys up in the air high enough so that the fall kills them.  Of course the archers do a good job of eliminating as well.  And, if you have wizards, they can launch meteors down on them.  If you have enough prisoners caught, you can even send them out with bombs on a kamikaze mission.  

Overall, the game play is very similar to the game that is supposed to have started this genre, Defend Your Castle.  While it is at the same price point, and I have purchased and tried both, I find StickWars to be much more intuitive and configurable of the two.  If you are only going to get one, make this one your pick.  Because of the price point and the unlimited nature of game play, this one gets added to my Must Have list.