Barricades and fire attacks may work very well in one level, but in another, you might run into a few barricade busters and enemies who are immune to fire damage. Different enemy units require different strategies to take on. Like any good tower defense, there’s something of a puzzle element to the whole thing. There’s a hilarious feeling of failure as what you thought was an airtight defense is met with an unexpected twist or two that makes everything fall apart (don’t rely solely on barricades to funnel enemies one way if you aren’t accounting for the barricade busters, trust me). There’s a fun sense of progression as you unlock and upgrade new traps and use them to go back and conquer older levels. The puzzle here begins with do you try to take out enemies at each doorway early on, or let them funnel to a single path dangerously close to your rift? Can you afford to split your defenses, or should you risk one getting through at the last second? You can use spike traps on the floor and arrow traps on the walls to create kill boxes. Things kick off rather simply: a couple of doors that funnel into a single path towards your rift. But even if your traps aren’t doing enough to take all of the enemies out, you can jump into the fray yourself with assorted weapons, cleaning up any stragglers that aren’t impaled on spikes or flung into the abyss. One or two players use points to set up assorted traps along a set of predetermined paths to prevent waves of orcs and other enemies from reaching your rift. Orcs Must Die! 3 is a tower defense third-person action game hybrid. You can also play the PS4 version on PS5 right now through backwards compatibility. PS4 owners of the game will get the PS5 version of Orcs Must Die! 3 free. We’ll update this review with any significant differences once the next-gen version is live. Presumably it won’t feature different content, but will focus on performance and visuals. A native PS5 version is coming at a later date, though it’s not quite clear what updates it will have. This review is based on the PlayStation 4 version of the game. After getting back on their feet with the Stadia deal, I was thrilled to hear that Orcs Must Die! 3 was finally headed to consoles. I absolutely loved 2017’s Orcs Must Die! Unchained, a free-to-play multiplayer take on the series unique realtime tower defense formula, but it was the cause for some financial trouble for Robot Entertainment after it flopped commercially. In fact, in many ways we have Stadia to thank for Orcs Must Die! 3 even existing, nearly 10 years after the last numbered entry in the series was released. But of course, players can pay 'em back by doing the same! The team with the most rift points at the end of the match wins.After a year-long exclusivity on Google Stadia, Orcs Must Die! 3 has finally made its way onto other platforms. These other players can distract your team with spells, minions, and huge bosses to make you lose rift points. Players assemble a team to defend their rift, but at the same time another team is playing on the same map in some… spooky… alternate dimension or something. Gamers ready for a trap-snapping, spell-slinging, ogre-spudging good time can look no further than Orcs Must Die! Unchained's new game mode, Sabotage! This fast-paced mode is a totally new way to play. All new Sabotage mode sets up two teams of three to troll each other with spells and bosses in an action-packed race to the highest score. Long-time favorite Endless mode has returned in Orcs Must Die! Unchained with expanded 3-player co-op. Weekly Challenges and Daily Quests give players the chance to unlock extra traps and upgrade parts. Survival mode lets players murder their way to the top of the orc pile in 3-player co-op defense gameplay that every Orcs Must Die! fan will love. Whether players prefer might and majesty or scum and villainy, there’s a hero for every type of orc-slayer around. Old friends Max and Gabriella return to fight alongside a cast of new heroes like Blackpaw, Hogarth, Stinkeye, and Bloodspike. The hordes are no match for the powers of elements and physics!Īre you mage enough to defend the rifts? A wide variety of unique and powerful heroes with deep gameplay options offer a plethora of painfully creative ways to stop orcs in their grimy tracks. Players cover fortresses in gleeful torture devices and engineer a variety of hilarious and violent ends for invading minions. The only thing better than building traps for murdering minions is building more traps! Play to unlock traps, then upgrade them to be even deadlier. Orcs Must Die!’s classic white-knuckle witch’s brew of action and strategy returns, letting players team up with their friends to lay waste to millions of new invading monsters! Build an impenetrable gauntlet of traps to hack, grind, flatten, gibletize and incinerate foes before they charge into the heart of the rift!
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