Orcs must die 2

In another strange turn of events, I'm going to review another game this week... that is actually a new release...

I'll get back to reviewing old games and films that no one cares about soon... promise.

This long awaited sequel...

Wait that’s not true, the original Orcs must die came out less than a year ago... let me start again.

This shortly awaited sequel to Orcs must die was released on steam on the 30^th of july, since then I played the frell out of it, the reason I’m posting so late today, is because when I started the drawing for today's post, it made me want to play the game, so I played for 3 hours or so, then got back to it.

Orcs must die 2 is a tower defence game, your job is to stop the Orcs getting from the door they enter the level from, to the door they exit the level through. To help you with that task are a bunch of weapons, spells and traps. You can play it anyway you like, go completely hack and slash and kill the Orcs yourself, or set up cleaver trap combinations to kill the Orcs for you, however once the levels start getting harder and harder its only through a combination of these two techniques that your going to succeed, especially when the harder baddies start to show up.

As you can expect from a game with such a short turn around, not much has changed since the first game, the graphics and gameplay are just as they where in the first one. This is not a bad thing, if its not broke, don't fix it. The game has buckets of personality and while the story is very much an excuse to kill as many Orcs as possible, its not horrible.

The big change between this game and its predecessor is the inclusion of co-op multiplayer, now you can recruit a friend to come kill the Orcs with you. This is not without its problems, you get much less gear and traps when you play co-op so you need to get on well with the person you are playing with and come up with real strategies, if you don't work together your not going to succeed, this is not necessary a bad thing, but because you unlock things and upgrade them as you play it does mean you need to find someone who is at the same sort of point in the game as you to play with, or things can feel very one sided.

All in all Orcs must die 2 is a great edition to my game library, and one I highly recommended to everybody, even if you don't normally like tower defence games you can find a lot to love in this one.

However, put your own music on while you play, the in game music gets old fast.