Orcs Must Die 1 had a white male character who built traps and used weapons to kill legions of orcs, a action/strategy genre. The second game added a female character, so you play as the white male or the white female. A really fun game, many hours of enjoyment. The 3rd installment had a nigger and a young white woman as the star, so I avoided it for a long time until someone told me that I should check it out regardless.
You are stuck playing as the nigger but only until you get enough points to unlock the white male from the other games, then you can just play as him. Kind of a reverso world where you have to pay for a white male as opposed to buying a nigger.
Anyway, if you've never played these games, this is a great game to start with. They have the regular maps where you slaughter thousands of orcs with traps, but they added a new feature in 3 where you have massive battles and have massive defensive weapons. Where a typical game you might fight hundreds of orcs, these battlefield games you are fighting over a thousand orcs. Slaughtering them en masse is quite entertaining.
Unlike Orcs 1 and 2, Orcs 3 almost requires you to play with another person, some of the maps are just to hard for 1 person. Not that it can't be done but you'll be sweating balls trying to win by yourself.
The main purpose of the game is to combine traps in such a way that you kill the most orcs at once, which is my favorite part of the game. Takes a lot of strategy and thinking to come up with creative ways to slaughter orcs. The game is not mindless point and shoot, you really have to think A LOT about what you are doing and you'll spend hours coming up with creative strategies.
I only played the third one so far, but really enjoyed it as a laid back don't think much sort of wind down game. You are able to beat it all on solo, but you might have to play a level more than once to get enough resources to upgrade. Would be way easier as you said on co-op though, some of the levels are big so its hard to keep all the routes locked down.
baitsauce 0 points 3.3 years ago
I only played the third one so far, but really enjoyed it as a laid back don't think much sort of wind down game. You are able to beat it all on solo, but you might have to play a level more than once to get enough resources to upgrade. Would be way easier as you said on co-op though, some of the levels are big so its hard to keep all the routes locked down.