Orcs Must Die 2 Review
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The game is an absolute blast, it is SO satisfying to kill thousands and thousands of orcs, kobods, gnolls, elementals, ogres, trolls, etc, and about those levels seemingly designed for 2, I just took that as a challenge, I got through all right, just takes some strategy
Earlier today I laughed with Glee as a figured out the perfect setup for a map that can be a massive headache if you don't know what you're doing. It's just too satisfying to figure out just what you need to turn an impossible level into a wall of dead Orc bodies. Very rarely do I have a massive smile on my face while playing most games but Orcs Must Die 2 is just too much fun, seriously if you can buy it!
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I got the original game for free via Steam and it was pretty fun, but the skull payment system wasn't very clear for some of the traps. Hearing that you can refund skulls bumps it up several notches on my 'to get list.'Fr said:
Sorceress gets the Polymorph Ring and Bromage gets the Dwarven War Hammer.Fr said:
Both are incredibly powerful, although the Polymorph Ring has the potential to make a bad situation turn into a nightmare.
My biggest complaint about the game was that unlike the first game, traps are not self-sufficient. They require a lot of baby sitting, and often you can't give them the time they require in single player, due to the lack of portals, numerous entries with little to no room to set up elaborate killboxes, and large size. Don't get me wrong, I've five skulled almost all of the maps on Nightmare solo, but it's unreasonably difficult to do so.
The game suffers because of the co-op when you don't have a friend to play with at that very moment.
Edit: The campaign is also much shorter.
I set up paladin+archers on both sides to defend against air (self-healing paladin to absorb damage), then spent 90% of my resources building archers and tar traps on the path to one of the rifts, and placed some tar traps around the other path then personally killed all the monsters that came to that rift then quickly ran to the first one after having done so.Fr said:
My score was worth nothing, but 5 skulls was relatively easy doing this, since the bromage is basically invincible with the right trinkets equipped and the staff kills relatively fast.
There are probably better ways of doing it, but I couldn't figure out another one that could get me 5 skulls on nightmare on that shitty map in single-player. By comparison, it's a complete joke in co-op.
My only problem with the game is that it is WAY too multiplayer focused. The maps in solo can be an absolute pain in the ass to win solo, especially when 4 waves are coming at once from two different directions backed up by bigs that are a pain to take down with a warmage, let alone 4 of them.
i have played the demos form both versions and i actually had fun with it. yeah i know, why dint i try it earlier. too busy with other games at that time.
anyway, from what i read here is, that part 2 is more a MP focused game and that the levels can be very hard to survive because of that. is it still worth the 15$ to play it solo?
anyway, from what i read here is, that part 2 is more a MP focused game and that the levels can be very hard to survive because of that. is it still worth the 15$ to play it solo?
I like the story of this game. Yeah it isn't that deep but for level intro's and the chatter in the beginning are quite fun to hear.
Me and my friend are mostly silent when they talk just because its quite funny.
So I disagree with you on that Justin.
But this game inmproved indeed so much that I can't finish the original. I like the trap system in the original more though, traps were more powerful and more suited to bigger monsters.
Here you constantly need to be there and charm/stun enemies that get too close to the rift. And while saying that I'm not even playing nightmare difficulty.
My friend who likes jumping into the crowd and killing everything likes it this way. But myself as a more ranged character has difficulty in keeping the total kill amount even. mostly its like I killed around 25% and he 75%. But then again, he dies more from the sappers
Me and my friend are mostly silent when they talk just because its quite funny.
So I disagree with you on that Justin.
But this game inmproved indeed so much that I can't finish the original. I like the trap system in the original more though, traps were more powerful and more suited to bigger monsters.
Here you constantly need to be there and charm/stun enemies that get too close to the rift. And while saying that I'm not even playing nightmare difficulty.
My friend who likes jumping into the crowd and killing everything likes it this way. But myself as a more ranged character has difficulty in keeping the total kill amount even. mostly its like I killed around 25% and he 75%. But then again, he dies more from the sappers