# Defense Zone 2 HD — user reviews

> 209 indexed App Store user reviews of Defense Zone 2 HD by Artem Kotov, rated 3.40/5 from 17 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/defense-zone-2-hd/id564748913/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/defense-zone-2-hd/id564748913.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 4

## What do users think of Defense Zone 2 HD?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Great graphics and visuals
- 👍 Addictive and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Strategic depth and challenge
- 👍 Good value for the price
- 👍 Long-term playability
- 👍 Realistic military theme
- 👍 Well-balanced game mechanics
- 👍 Excellent sound design
- 👍 No in-app purchases (historically)
- 👍 High replay value

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches
- 🐛 Unplayable after recent updates
- 🐛 Graphics issues (flickering, distortion)
- 🐛 Controls malfunctioning
- 🐛 Ads freezing or not dismissible
- 🐛 Difficulty spikes making levels impossible
- 🐛 Game crashes or freezes
- 🐛 Save progress issues
- 🐛 In-game purchases not working as expected
- 🐛 Poor optimization for certain devices/OS versions
- 🐛 Excessive ads (in some versions)
- 🐛 Interface issues
- 🐛 Slow game speed (e.g., 4x speed not working)

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Graphical glitches (flickering units, floating towers)
- Control bar messed up
- Thousands of tanks lined up on roads
- Pause function not working
- Ad videos freezing at the end with no exit button
- Towers ignoring enemies
- Rocket launcher not shooting
- Zoom out not working properly
- 4x speed not usable
- Game crashes
- Screen resolution not fitting phone screen
- Game not saving progress
- Weapons getting spastic (e.g., mortar not firing)
- Weapon placement issues
- Game not starting after update
- Game freezes on start screen
- Display orientation issues (portrait mode only)
- Icons overlapping
- Save-bug causing buttons to be unresponsive after reloading
- App stops working after upgrade

**Most requested features**

- New levels and content
- Fixes for recent bugs
- Improved graphics on newer devices
- More weapon variety
- Persistent upgrade system
- Assistant drone or hero character
- Sea-based combat
- Game Center integration with achievements
- Endless mode
- Ability to select targets
- More frequent updates

## Newest reviews (10 of 209)

### 4/5 — Баги после обновы

*2024-06-22*

После крайней обновы сплошные баги с графикой,юниты мерцают, башни плавают.. Требует исправления А так игра класс
Спс за оперативное исправления,теперь всё,как нужно

### 4/5 — Cos’è successo?

*2024-06-15, version 1.8.12*

Dopo l’ultimo aggiornamento il gioco è diventato inguardabile spero sia un bug. L’interfaccia è orribile

### 2/5 — Annoyed

*2024-04-02*

I have been playing DZ, DZ2 and DZ3 for over a decade. Literally every day since. My favorite one is DZ2. I paid for an HD version of it when it first came out. Now the game has added the "Watch Ads for $" feature. To get through levels that I have been doing for many years I have to watch 8-12 ads per level 3 round. I paid for the game!!! For the first time in many many years I’m no longer playing this once amazing game. I find myself reaching for the icon and then remembering. Artem Kotov has lost a huge fan of his games.

### 2/5 — Fun but doesn’t always save

*2021-11-13*

Been a fan of this series from its first. The difficulty got a bit crazy, but the worst is when you pause the game after having built up your defenses. Sometimes it saves your progress… other times it’s all gone, start level all over again. Why bother playing then? 🤨

### 3/5 — Annoyed

*2020-09-18, version 1.7.0*

I have been playing DZ, DZII and DZIII for many many years now. I literally play every night before I go to sleep. I have completed DFII at all levels and all difficulties fully through twice and I am on my 3rd go.  I reset the entire game and play it through again. Each time I do, I fly through all levels EXCEPT BS level 27. It literally takes me a couple years to complete that one level. I get sick and tired of towers ignoring vehicles as they pass to the exits. It's blatent and annoying. Especially the planes. The rocket launcher spins and tracks it but will not shoot. The entire series has been brilliant and I am glad I bought them all but level 27 is 1000x harder than any level in any of the 3 games.

### 3/5 — Screen resolution

*2020-01-15*

This game has always been the best game to me. I would like to leave a complaint here and claim to the developer about the screen resolution of the game. It is simply does not fit my phone’s screen(iPhone 11 pro). Please fix the issue and I will happily alter the starts to 5 ones.

### 2/5 — mechanics are off, difficulty is ridiculous

*2018-01-15*

The difficulty is still a bit too high. The towers are unreliable.

### 5/5 — 특징들..

*2017-12-14*

돈지른다고 포탑 들이 강력해지진 않으니 진짜배기 게임을  찾으러온사람에게는 추천!,하지만 현질이 통하지않는만큼 후반부 난이도가 좀 빡센편, 쉬운게임좋아하는사람에겐 비추! 머리굴리고, 배치짜고하는맛이있는 웰메이드게임.

### 5/5 — Good game!

*2017-04-08, version 1.6.0*

Well done ! Game keeps you playing for hours, good grafics and lots of fun !

### 5/5 — Awesome tower defense game!!

*2017-03-06*

I love tower defense games and the Defense Zone games are my current goto's.   I heard about them on IIT and glad I did.  The $2.99 is very reasonable for the full version.   The developer doesn't force you to cough up $$ to complete levels and I think there are 30+ levels in this game.   The most levels out of all the tower defense games I've played.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Game is totally FUBAR’d

*2024-06-20*

Defense Zone has been my one and only purchased game from the App Store virtually since the platform has existed. It used to be my favorite game!  Just as of yesterday, the game is completely unplayable with the control bar totally messed up and controls malformed, with thousands of little tanks “parked” lined up on all roads.  It’s a complete mess!  What happened?

I tried deleting the game from my iPad, and reinstalling it, but no joy.  Every game map is completely messed up.

I felt so strongly about this game, and really sad to experience this.  I am hopeful the developer will release a new update that fixes it.

### 1/5 — Глючит на iPhone XR

*2024-06-16*

После последнего обновления графика съехала, пауза не работает. Глючит.

### 1/5 — What’s wrong with the Ad ?

*2024-01-18*

The Ad of Royal Match is freezing at the end. No button is available. I really regret to pay 3.99 dollars to buy the No-Ad version.

### 1/5 — Жесткий баг!!!

*2024-01-13*

Открываю рекламу чтобы заработать денег для закупки оружия, и после чего заканчивается реклама кнопки закрытия видео ролика не срабатывают. Просто тупо все встают и нельзя ничего делать кроме как полностью закрыть приложение и заново её открыть. Такой баг уже в последнее время очень часто повторяется. А если ещё и не успел сохранить игру, то приходится начинать её заново. Это очень сильно раздражает.. Исправьте пожалуйста это, просто невозможно играть.

### 1/5 — Bug mit Werbevideos bzgl. Geld und Gesundheit (IOS)

*2024-01-05*

Habe das Spiel gekauft und seit dem Kauf funktioniert das mit den Werbevideos nicht wenn man z.B. während des Spiels Geld oder Gesundheit will. Die Werbevideos laufen zwar durch, aber am Ende kann man dir nicht mehr weg drücken oder anderweitig agieren. Es bleibt nur die Option das Spiel komplett zu beenden und neuzustarten. Habs ständig versucht und es ist auch egal welches Werbevideo in dem Moment läuft. Man schaut sich das an und kann das Spiel einfach wieder neu starten, verlorene Zeit also sich das überhaupt anzuschauen. Finde das ziemlich nervig!

### 1/5 — Ad forced me to quit game

*2023-12-25*

This f..ing ad of Chat Box forced me to quit a good Level i played.

### 1/5 — Spam, lots of spam

*2023-02-20, version 1.8.0*

Constant spam since download. Avoid. Good game though.

### 1/5 — Please FIX

*2022-12-23, version 1.8.0*

With recent update 12-22-2022 unable to use the 4 x times speed. This makes the game extremely slow. Not sure if accidental removed but will not update on other devices tell fix.

### 1/5 — Latest update messed it up

*2020-03-20*

Agree with others that latest upgrade messed up the game.  It’s choppy and seems to stutter on the latest iPad Air. It’s a shame as I loved this game. Don’t purchase version 1.7

### 1/5 — Latest update ruined it

*2020-02-28*

This WAS my favorite game to play and I have played it everyday for years but the newest update (version 1.7) has ruined the whole experience! Now when you zoom out it’s hardly like you’re zooming out at all. You can’t see enough of the playing field which makes it very hard to monitor what’s going on in other places. It really obnoxious and has ruined the entire game experience for me. I wish it could be changed back.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Fantástico

*2024-08-16, version 1.8.13*

Me encantan los juegos de estrategia de este programador. Muy recomendable.

### 5/5 — Yes!

*2024-06-23*

This game is back to its sublime best! Amazing gameplay and awesome graphics. Fantastic!

### 5/5 — pov: ты отражаешь украинский контрнаступ

*2022-09-29*

отличная игра!

### 5/5 — Very cool game

*2022-09-25*

This is so cool I can not stop playing this game thank you

### 5/5 — Great game

*2021-03-13*

This is great game, well balanced game mechanics, fun to play and  all you can expect from tower defence game.  

It’s sad to see a new version 3 is went to far with micro transaction and even when you buy it, you’d still need to watch ads when game is restarted... kills all purpose of buying game

### 5/5 — Hammerspiel

*2020-06-01*

Ich mache echt selten Bewertungen, aber das Spiel ist mit Abstand das beste Towerdefence was ich bisher gespielt habe. Dafür würde ich sogar 6 Sterne geben, es wird nie langweilig.

### 5/5 — Schöne Grafik

*2019-11-08*

Nette Aufmachung, keine in–App Käufe. Sehr gutes Tower-Defense-spiel.

### 5/5 — Bratan jdem ot tebea 4 chasti ia gotov ee kupiti lol

*2018-07-03*

Best game ever

### 5/5 — Great game

*2018-05-09, version 1.6.2*

Very good

### 5/5 — !!!!!!!!!!

*2018-01-08*

Отличная игра!!!вот только обновлений нет,новых уровней нет,а жаль!раньше сутками можно было играть в эту игру,а сейчас можно просто удалить. Разрабодчики,добавляйте новые уровни иначе....................

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