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Orcs Must Die! 3 Free Download GAMESPACK.NET After an unsuccessful detour into competitive multiplayer in Orcs Must Die! Unchained, the Stadia-exclusive Orcs Must Die! 3 is a return to the co-op action/tower defense gameplay that made this series an old favorite of mine. I have to admit I was a little surprised at how literal that return is, though – so much of the selection of traps and menagerie of orcs is recycled from 2012’s OMD 2 that it feels like the kind of iterative sequel you’d get one year after the last game, rather than eight. And the one big new idea, the large-scale War Scenario maps, are too spread out to really play to the series’ strengths. It’s all still good meat-grinding fun, of course, but it’s very familiar. Orcs Must Die! 3’s story is the same goofy fantasy from the previous two games. The two new warmage characters’ banter has a couple of chuckle-worthy moments as the sassy one berates the oblivious one until they earn mutual respect as they discover they make a good team, but outside of that it’s pretty run-of-the-mill. The potentially interesting story ideas they hint at, like one of them being an especially gifted magic user, don’t actually go anywhere and play no part in resolving the conflict with a villain with all the character development of Megatron from the original Transformers cartoon. It’s fine, just superficial. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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But as always, it’s immensely satisfying to assemble an efficient slaughterhouse by laying down a variety of different traps and racking up combo scores by bouncing your parade of victims from one to the next. Each of the 18 levels is a challenging puzzle to optimize the enemies’ path so that they trigger as many traps as possible. Once you’ve made them take the most inconvenient path possible with barricades (their route is helpfully visualized by ghost orcs during the planning phase), you litter the way with spike traps that impale them from below, shock traps that zap them from above, arrow traps that blast them with projectiles out of the walls, spring traps that launch them into pools of lava or literal meat grinders, saw blades that protrude from the floor, flaming coals they have to walk over, and more. The more abuse you make them take, the higher the score (and thus resources for more traps to lay for the next wave) you extract from them when they finally die, and that means there’s actually value in hitting them with low-damage traps so that they don’t die immediately. This game is a little bit sadistic when you think about it, so I recommend against that. Anything that’s left standing you have to deal with yourself using the simple but effective third-person shooting and trinket spells. Honestly, the ice attack is tough to go without – being able to freeze one enemy or an entire group in their tracks is invaluable when you’re facing down a charging ogre (who annoyingly stuns you before he attacks).

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or making a last-second effort to stop a durable enemy from making it into your castle’s mystical end zone. Each playable character, including those you unlock after completing the campaign, is distinguished by a special movement ability, but I haven’t found them especially useful. For example, Kelsey can hover for a few seconds, but… why is that good? You don’t get much advantage from attacking from above and you can’t jump high enough to avoid getting smacked around, so I’m not sure. Egan’s ground-pound is slightly better but still a weapon of last resort. Each character also has a weapon associated with them in the campaign – a shotgun for Kelsey and a bow for Egan – both with some pretty destructive alternate-fire abilities that consume mana. Kelsey’s proximity grenade launcher pulled my fat out of the fire on numerous occasions. That said, you can take any weapon you want if you’re willing to use up one of your inventory slots, which sacrifices space for traps, so the choice of which character to play as doesn’t feel tremendously important.  The Orcs Must Die! art style hasn’t changed much from the distinctively cartoony look we first saw in 2011, but it has aged extremely well and the orcs and environments look great in 4K. I did notice some choppiness during some crowded battles, but other than that it ran smoothly, especially after a restart. Cardlife Creative Survival

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All of the locations are some variation on a castle setting, but there’s a decent amount of colorful visual variety to it to keep it from getting stale. Even if it’s as simple as changing from rivers of lava to rivers of green acid slime or night to day, combined with the very different layouts of the maps it was enough to make each level feel at least somewhat distinctive. I do wish there were some variation to the rank-and-file orcs and ogres, though – when every heavy orc is identical, down to how they wear their armor, it makes things a little monotonous by the time you slaughter your 2,000th one. The biggest disappointment is that it’s pretty much the same cast of villains as Orcs Must Die! 2. To be fair, it’s a reasonably diverse group of small, medium, heavy, and giant bad guys, including elementals that break into smaller versions of themselves when destroyed, archers who launch dynamite arrows, and gnoll hunters who come straight after you instead of going for the rift, so there’s no shortage of variety – it’s just that we’ve seen it all before. The main new threat is a race of purple orcs called Fire Fiends, but aside from their immunity to fire damage and vulnerability to ice they basically behave identically to their greenskin cousins. Those they did force me to diversify my trap builds a bit since I have a habit of relying heavily on fire traps and their damage-over-time, so they served that purpose at least. Orcs Must Die! 3’s biggest new feature is its five War Scenario maps.

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These come with their own set of weapons of mass destruction to fight off enormous armies of orcs as they lay siege to your castle, like catapults, entire groups of archers, giant spring traps, and spiked balls that roll downhill and wipe out entire columns of enemies. This grand idea never really worked that well, though, because outside the castle everything’s so spread out. There’s little opportunity to control the route of the hoard, and it’s frustrating to put down an expensive extra-large trap only to have the vast majority of the enemy troops simply walk around it. And when the invaders inevitably break down your castle doors, all of the big traps are disabled while you’re inside and you have to play it just like any other level. Playing through solo, it felt like most War Scenarios are balanced toward two-player co-op, where one person could thin out the orcs’ numbers by manning a catapult and bombarding the orcs as they charge while the other mops up the survivors inside. But if it’s just you, you have to abandon the artillery and fall back to the interior pretty much as soon as the doors are breached. Partially for that reason, the difficulty across the 18 scenarios felt wildly inconsistent. I was able to get a “perfect” five-skull score on some maps with just a couple of attempts, while others I had to try a half-dozen times or more just to complete at all on standard difficulty, which inflated my play time to around 25 hours. But I haven’t yet unlocked every trap, so it’s nice that there are still things to work toward in the post game and on the endless mode maps that might help with those barely manageable hoards. Erica

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After nearly a decade, developer Robot Entertainment has brought back its fantasy tower defense series with Orcs Must Die! 3. Originally released back in 2020 as a Stadia exclusive, Orcs Must Die 3 has made its way to Steam, as well as Xbox and PlayStation. Now that the game is available to a much larger audience, Orcs Must Die! 3 shines as the best entry in the series yet. Orcs Must Die! 3 is set 20 years after the second game, and now follows the story of two young apprentices, Kelsey and Egan. The War Mage and Sorceress have rebuilt the order and are training these two new apprentices to fill their shoes. The “passing of the torch” theme is a common occurrence in older franchises being rebooted, and Orcs Must Die! 3 pulls it off fairly well. Kelsey and Egan are both colorful and exciting characters, and the game gives their personalities a lot of room to shine. Whether it’s Egan moonwalking and dancing after completing a level, or Kelsey dropping quips as she takes down enemies, I was a big fan of the new protagonists in OMD!3. At its core, the Orcs Must Die! games are all about, well, slaying orcs in every way possible. Once again, players will need to defend a rift as Orcs storm their base, looking to jump through. There’s an assortment of traps that players will place in order to properly defend the rift as orcs begin to pour through. These traps are purchased using coins, which can be earned by killing monsters. The tower defense elements in Orcs Must Die! 3 are excellent.

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I loved methodically plotting out my defenses, carefully determining the best spot for Spike Traps, Gravity Lifts, Arrow Walls, and the other wacky traps featured in the game. Once the hordes started pouring in, it was incredibly satisfying to see all of my traps working in tandem to slay orcs by the masses. As with any good tower defense game, the real excitement starts when all of your plans begin to fail. What’s really cool about Orcs Must Die! 3 is that the game allows you to place traps in the middle of a round, as monsters are barreling towards the rift. As I was earning coins, I was immediately using them to bolster my defenses and adjust to enemy behaviors. A level in Orcs Must Die! 3 typically consists of around five waves. Before the first round, players are given as much time as they need to analyze the map and place their traps. However, after the first round, there’s only a short bit of time between waves that players have to make adjustments and build new traps. I understand that logically it makes sense that I don’t have an infinite amount of time between waves of mindless enemies, but it was frustrating in some cases as I felt like the game wasn’t properly letting me learn and evolve my strategy. Protagonists Kelsey and Egan are at the heart of Orcs Must Die! 3, from not only a story perspective, but gameplay. Both characters have their own unique weapons in the blunderbuss and bow, as well as different special abilities that give them an extra advantage when fighting against hordes.

The characters are at their best when you go online and team up with a friend. Multiplayer feels like the best way to experience Orcs Must Die! 3. Jumping in with my friend, we were able to strategize together, deciding how we wanted to spend coins and what areas we needed to prioritize. Most levels in the game feature multiple doors, creating different points of entry for enemies. We were able to divide and conquer assigning ourselves to lockdown different areas of the map. It’s also worth mentioning that Orcs Must Die! 3 runs quite smoothly. There are sequences where the chaos gets out of control, with countless enemies all on screen at once and multiple traps activating. Even in these moments, I experienced little to no framerate drops or technical issues. Visually, Orcs Must Die! 3 is a pretty looking game, but certainly not something that’s going to blow your socks off. That said, I appreciate the fantastical approach the developers took to the game’s art style. The vibrant colors are welcomed, as they work to bring this fantasy world to life. I also appreciated that OMD!3 didn’t opt for a generic fantasy game soundtrack. Instead, there’s a refreshing mix of beats ranging from rock to hip hop. In a game as campy and light-hearted as Orcs Must Die! 3, these elements complimented the rest of the game quite well. Orcs Must Die! 3 is an excellent outing from Robot Entertainment, as it delivers exciting tower defense action along with some truly challenging sequences.

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The two new protagonists serve to usher the story in a new direction, while adding some flavor to gameplay. Playing with a friend is best, as it allows the two stars of the game to shine the brightest. Now free from the shackles of Google Stadia exclusivity, Orcs Must Die! 3 is the best entry in the series. Occasionally, as a new wave of orcs washes in to crash against your fortifications, you’ll catch a moan from a despondent greenskin on the breeze: “Feels like we’re never gonna get there.” It seems like a moment of realisation about their doomed role in tower defence, but invariably it’s a thought they don’t get to complete: they’re dashed against the rocks, tarred and burned, or electrified so that their skeleton flashes through their skin. Recently freed from the shackles of Stadia, Orcs Must Die! 3 isn’t usually a thoughtful fantasy game. It makes little effort to contextualise its maligned title characters, to ponder where they come from or why they do what they do. Yet it is a thinking person’s game—a strategic siege simulator that rewards careful arrangement, inspired solutions, and a willingness to toss away past assumptions and approach a problem from a new angle. It’s a game that makes you feel smart, even as you swing your mouse desperately to slug an imp in the eye with a bolt of magic. Imagine you’re an interior designer, but in a universe where one of the tenets of feng shui is murder.Spec Ops The Line

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