Koalla

Orcs must die takes on a different style of tower defense. Instead of the usual "God" overview where you can place towers wherever you want, OMD is more of a mixture between a third person shooter and a tower defense. You control a warrior / mage / hero, who can place traps and use magical weapons such as crossbow, sword, fire-glove thingy, etc. and also has the ability to place traps to defeat beasts. For people familiar with TD games, the traps are your towers. However, you can place the traps on the ground, on the wall and more or less all over the place. There's a huge variety of towers which can all be upgraded, and in order to upgrade the towers, you need to collect skulls by completing levels while meeting certain score requirements. The game is entertaining, and the large variety of traps and weapons make for different approaches to each level, enabling you to "do it your way." There are however some cons to the game. As of today, 12th of October there's no multiplayer, and no multiplayer in sight either. Quite a bummer as it would make the game last longer. Also, apart from the achievements, there's not real re-play value, albeit the campaign is long. When upgrading the towers, it would not hurt to be able to upgrade them more than once, possibly available in a future expansion. (By the looks of the game's menu, there's a lot of DLC planned.) Overall it's a very good game, graphics are good, music is a little repetitive, but the voice comments are very funny at times. The game runs very smooth, and no real bugs encountered yet, apart from the fact that some mobs don't get back up after they've been knocked over. The game is definitely worth its cost and is likely to give you hours of entertainment. -Koalla-