Orcs Must Die 1-2, yo or no?

[DaveSimmons]

I'm just about finished with Defense Grid (4-5 achievements left) and Steam has OMD 1-2 complete for $8.xx.

So for a single-player tower defense game, are they yay or neigh? whoa or woe? Forever Knight or Twilight?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Go for it esp at that price!!

 

[shortylickens]

Yes.

Good games. Though if you buy the whole pack you will notice that OMD 2 is just more of the same.
Play that instead. Its got the levels from the first game, plus more weapons and traps. And a 2nd character class.

 

[lupi]

Yes. A different take on the standard and a very fun game. Haven't played the second one yet even though I have it, but the co-op sounds like a fun addition.

 

[CPA]

definite yo

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Have have number one, its fun for several hours. So yes its a Yo at that price.

 

[rivethead]

Hell yo. There is something so satisfying about watch Orc arms and legs and guts fly about.

And there is some pretty funny dialogue too.

 

[EDUSAN]

i liked OMD 1 more than 2, but 2 had coop and i played it with a friend from the beginning to the end

definetely very fun games, both

 

[ibex333]

For this low price I guess it's ok. But I got em both for $2.50 each or so...


I played Orcs Must Die 1 and I must say I am not too impressed. It's fun for about first 2 levels and then it gets pretty repetitive. Points to unlock better traps are not coming too fast, but the difficulty ramps up extremely quickly. I got annoyed and stopped playing.

I later came back and gave it another shot, but ended up with the same results.

 

[EDUSAN]

its not a normal tower defense game in which you just watch the tower kill everything, you need to be actively blocking a path when you dont have enough money to do traps in all the entrances, run from one place to another to stop passing enemies, killing flying dragons when your towers cant target them, etc etc etc

one of the worst things OMD 1 had is that it kills your finger from the amount of clicking you will be doing alllll the time shooting

 

[OCNewbie]

Another "yo" from me. I just installed OMD2 last night. Haven't had a chance to play it yet though.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Get them. Killing orcs is extremely enjoyable.

 

[Attic]

im sold on OMD2.

Had this on radar for awhile.

 

[motsm]

I picked up the second one and found it fairly meh, that was until I looked up the finer details of combos and high scores, which made the game very enjoyable.

 

[TidusZ]

I liked the first game better, the second one the balancing is kinda off since they added coop.

 

[greenhawk]

I found the first better, but that is probably as I did not play the second in co op mode.

The second was a bit of a let down vs one given playing solo. But it was still fun to win against. Definitly need to get good at head shots, even at the flying creatures . it helps with wining. Setting up the traps so that you get extra time to run about is also a good thing to learn

 

[Gerle]

Both 1 and 2 are great games, I think 2 is even better. My 6 years old son is really good at it, we enjoy the multi-player aspect.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Thanks all, I decided to just get 1 complete for now since I don't care about the co-op.

 

[MWink]

I played the first one quite a while ago and I thought it was okay but not great. More recently I played Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, which felt a bit similar, but I found it much more enjoyable.

 

[Zorander]

I loved 1 a lot.

2 could have bettered it if only the map design was not so skewed for co-op play. Running around from one corner to another quickly became tiresome.

 

[shortylickens]

I loved 1 a lot.

2 could have bettered it if only the map design was not so skewed for co-op play. Running around from one corner to another quickly became tiresome.

Losing is even more tiresome.

You pretty much NEED two players for most of those levels. You gotta have two guys attacking and keeping an eye on everything.

Yes, you have to split up money from kills, but its still a lot easier with a friend.