Tell me, which of you did not pull at least once to laugh during the responsible event? Remember the official part of your graduation, the depth of the school director or class teacher to peers. All these terribly serious people stand with stone faces, broadcast about something extremely important. And you are somewhere in the clouds, you think about your own, and then you abruptly switch to the interlocutor and surprise your gloomy face and arrogant tone in the voice seem insanely ridiculous. I just want to push to the side, cheerfully saying: “Come on! Maybe we’ll be simpler?»Jokers and balagurs from Ace Team, which have already been remembered thanks to Zeno Clash, their light and relaxing Rock of Ages as if they want to tell us the same. And also, of course, “troll” amateurs from Teotl Studios With their The Ball.
Bowling with obstacles
Comparison with last year’s “ball” asks for analysis Rock of Ages. We will not very describe the pros and cons of the parties, but only it should be, that Ace Team It turned out more fun and more exciting. Of course, the genres of the games are different, but the ball in both cases has a lot of attention liabilities.
So, now about the very desire to laugh at the crucial moment. The developers, like most of us, studied the myths of ancient Greece in childhood. If you remember, then the gods built each other’s intrigues, cursed with sinister curses, threw themselves trident and punished the perpetrators in the most merciless way. Some took these tales too literally and built a series God of War Based on. It is quite meat and spectacular, but pumped with testosterone and obsessive desire to “take revenge on everyone”. We do not condemn SCE Santa Monica – This is her choice, and it is not necessary to remind now that the exclusives for the PlayStation turned out to be amazing. Chilean creators also decided to exploit ancient Greek mythology for their own good and to us for fun. The
basis was a harsh and full regret story about Sisyphus.
This is the same guy who was instructed to roll a huge boulder to the top of the mountain in the kingdom of Aida for certain offenses. As soon as our deceiver, a thief, a robber and a fan of sending a fool to the gods delivered his heavy load to a place, had to start again: the ball rolled back, thoughts about meaningless work and time spent with renewed force.
Only according to the creators Rock of Ages One fine day, Sisyphus was so mocking the alignment with respect to him. He realized that the ball can be used not only as an improvised tool for escape, but also as an instrument of revenge ..
Ball in the face
Game process Rock of Ages It is a certain mixture of ball skiing from The Ball and laying obstacles to the opponent’s shell. Any card is a symmetrical gutter suspended high above the ground or generally unknown where. Our main goal is to drive your ball straight to the gate, behind which the enemy is hidden. The door will not work out the first time – attempts requires at least two or three attempts. During the trip of our round comrade, we will have to deal with the opposed obstacles. They can be catapults of various sizes and ranges of action, animals, fuel mines, guard towers and artillery headquarters that cause support from the air. All these joys kindly set up your opponent during the “respite” – when the boulder has already reached the addressee, and the creation of the new has not ended yet.
Actually, with the main goal, everything is clear. It is important even during the trip of our shell from the center of the map to the enemy gates as much as possible … Press people, break the defense structures and leave the ball more or less whole. For the collapse of everything and the whole game generously rewards with gold. More ruffled – we get more money. However, it is not necessary to be distracted by vandalism – you can include the likeness of Sberkass, with the help of which your savings will grow over time.
The story campaign Rock of Ages quite short and, oddly enough, to madly inexpressive. Having adopted such a positive and simple mechanics, Ace Team completely forgot about diversity and phen. No, with humor, developers have a complete order. Visual style and voice acting rollers. But empty to the stupidity of clowning is terribly boring. And squeaks-pages of heroic heroes (literally) over time begin to irritate. The same with bosses. This, of course, is pleasant and fun when the developers themselves point to the weaknesses of the enemy, mocking over such contractions in a thousand and one slasher. But if the disassembly with each monster consists in a triple blow to a vulnerable place and no more … Here you forget about a unique visual style.
I would like to find comfort in multiplayer – in theory, Rock of Ages for him and created. Yes, only a couple of modes (and this is taking into account the fact that the essence of one of them in the plot campaign was completely revealed) you will not be carried away for a long time. You need many beautiful cards, all kinds of studies for the detonation of defensive structures – a lot of things. However, the number of players still cannot hold. Every round lasts no more than three minutes and manages to be shy faster than the local musical compositions.
Rock of Ages catastrophically lacking scale and variety. “Living” mechanics and pleasant visual style quickly exhaust themselves both in the plot campaign and in the multiplayer. But if you suddenly want to carefully roll balls, listen to revelations Leonardo da Vinci and charge the cobblestone into a huge children’s face – we ask for mercy.
Pros: excellent visual style;Interesting mechanics;Dynamic multiplayer.
Cons: monotony;little content;The game is exhausted too quickly.