Overall the game isn't bad but it's inferior to orcs must die unchained in all most every way and this game has been out for over a year on stadia and with that year they really haven't done much, oh cool we get the dlcs but you are pretty much selling old assets from the other games and giving it back to us.
Cool we got war mode but locking the guardians to it is dumb since we were able to use them in the other games.
Buy it on a sale probably around 7-15 due to the lack of content in this game even with the two dlcs attached.
I just checked what the plans were going to be now it's on steam
"As for returning heroes, we hope to bring many of those characters back to life in the Orcs Must Die! franchise, but if any return as heroes they simply wouldn't be the same due to the way abilities work in this game"
k then change this games combat to the better version, at the very least change these worthless double jump "abilities" into a actual ability. I know it's a sequel and game sequels normally get worse example dragon age origins to "dragon age" 2 but god d*m, just do what the last game did and just improve upon it.
What i would like to see from this game going forward?
1.More playable characters,preferably in the realm of unchains actual diversity instead of all of the f*cking characters being human. oh a white skin,human,a dark skin human,a human with pointy ears and a human with boobs.
2.More traps preferably more guardians/banks. example would be dwarf bomb tossers from their old games,a dragon that is like a mortar, a druid that can summon out beast to charge the enemies,a bank of mages that do lighting or ice damage. Give me something cool instead of this basic crap.
3.More enemy types you have the i.p and you are already reusing all these old ones so you might as well port the full old roster and then build off of it, idc add in undead,vampires or you could let us go evil and fight the forces of good to actually see wtf they're are doing while you are 1-2 man fighting a war(you can even reskin the guardians to a evil version, example the elves into dark elves omg mind blown)
4.Add in the pvpve aspect to this game, So just looking at my notes i noticed i basically want you to release orcs must die unchained again with some new stuff. the game was a really under rated gem.
Pros
1.Fun.
2.Good music.
3.Achievements for playing the game on the hardest difficulty, more games need it because a lot of games even on hard are pis* easy so i just need a reason to play instead of turning it on easy and zoning out at which point ytf did i even buy a game?
Cons
1.No pvevp.Those were fun times.
2.Lack of characters, Like for real in unchained i was able to play orcs,humans,elves and beast men but in this one oh just lazy done humans and elf which both the females share the same double jump. oh nj diversifying your cast now we got a black male,2 white males,1 elf male and 2 white females, so stunning and brave no give me all the old characters from unchained since you refuse to do anything new outside of the black guy,the elf and the girl or give me new non human f*cking characters.
3.A lack of traps which is weird since you have two other games to rip from since you are reusing assets anyway.
4.Mp is capped to 2 players instead of the normal 3-4 in mp games, costing them money was telling one of my bros about the game and he was going to buy it until i told him it's capped at 2 players and he didn't feel like waiting for me and my other bro to get done playing with each other, can't blame him for a stupid as* decision on the devs part.
5.They did nothing with the year of exclusivity or with the money they were given.
6.Lack of new enemies,other than the final boss i don't think there is any new models for them or any new types from the older games.
7.STILL HAS BUGS,You had most of these maps for over a year so why are they still getting stuck and popping over defenses?
8.Tbh war mode isn't anything amazing and you would of seen more action on unchained.
9.Melee weapons are just trash.
10.The character "abilities" double jump and do a pointless thing, it is such a downgrade from unchain it would be laughable if it wasn't so god d*m sad.
11.Really the only likable character is max for him just going "traps traps traps"
12.Lack of content for a game that's been out for more than a year.
Overall the devs didn't do enough with the time and money you were given for being on stadia, it looks to be the bare the amount and just waited to double dip on a steam release.