California City Defense

**California City Defense** is an action game that was released by CCTV Interactive, with ATBW Interactive being its official publisher. It is an online multiplayer game that was made in succession of the California City Pimp Wars series, being released April 26, 2018. It follows Lamar and his friends who have to protect the Escades as well as his great grandfather's farm company from an eccentric pimp named El Mino, an American bison who wants to take over the Escade Business and soil Lamar and his friends, especially his great grandfather's farming company. It is currently managed by CCTV Online who still has the rights to it, along with California City Pimp Wars and California City Street Racers.

Unlike most of the games based on this series, which are primarily oriented with the ratings E10+ to T for Teen, this game features much more coarse language and gore, giving it an M for Mature rating. The game contains 40 premade maps for each of the 10 game modes in the game, which are Attack/Defense (where the players attack and defend each other), Capture The Flag (where the players have to take the enemy's briefcase and take it back to their base), Control Points (where the players have to capture at least 5 different control points, the team that captures them all wins), King Of The Hill (where the players have to capture a single control point, usually on top of a hill), etc.

## Gameplay

There are two modes, which are Single Player and Online Multiplayer.

### Single Player

In Single Player mode, the player plays as Lamar, while Coach, Longhorn, and three Impalas play different levels to defend Lamar's great grandfather's company. On July 21, 2022, Lamar and the Coach were removed, being replaced by lookalikes due to a contract expiring. There are ten levels and a linear map in which the player progresses to get to each stage. Enemies to defend are other impalas, as well as bison soldiers, super bisons, and deer snipers. There are three stages in each level and a boss fight after the end of each level, with El Mino being the final boss in the game.

### Online Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer is not a single mode, but a group of other modes, which includes Normal and Competition. Community servers also exist in this section as well. This is the more popular of the two modes. The names were changed in early August 2022 due to a copyright dispute with Valve.

## Development

The project first started in April 2018 and development took a month owing to a number of people at the time who worked on the game. It was released on May 10, 2018 as a beta game and was later made a complete game. Continuous updates have been implemented since.

On January 2, 2021, the game became property of CCTV Online after it was separated from CCTV Productions in response to the Caltrose25V5 Recession that was caused by the Caltrose25V5 trojan horse attacks against the game. However, it would still retain certain characters from the TV series such as Lamar and Coach Mach. On July 21, 2022, both of these characters were permanently pulled from the game because the contract with its former parent company to continue using them had expired.

## Controversy

The game is heavily criticized for being overly "too similar" to Team Fortress 2, which was published by Valve Corporation in 2007. The developers had to change the game to make it different, in which they did by adding a different chat font, as well as naming enemy characters "Bison Soldier," "Deer Sniper," "Spy Goat," etc. Even so, it was still criticized for being a rip off of TF2. However, the game's popularity rose significantly in 2020 in response to TF2's eventual ongoing bot crisis, with one of the reasons being that it is much newer and well maintained.

However, this was refuted by the developers as the game's plot is not the same and neither is the gameplay, and they did not intend on making it similar to TF2, the developers further refuted the controversy and stated that there is no parallel or symmetrical team-style gameplay and the game instead has an objective of Lamar's great grandfather's company defending itself from El Mino. However, the game still had enough similarities to be labelled a TF2 clone, and this was true with the El Mino Impalas having blue t-shirts, but it could be changed by the player to a light purple.

In August 2022, some elements were either changed or removed, including the Casual and Competitive modes being renamed due to a copyright dispute with Valve. These two modes were renamed Normal and Competition respectively but are exactly the same.