Orcs Must Die! 3
July 14, 2020
Orcs Must Die! 3 ushers orc-slaying mayhem to a previously unimaginable scale. All new War Scenarios pit players and their friends against the largest orc armies ever assembled. Mountable War Machines give players the essential firepower to heave, stab, carbonize, and disarticulate the abominable intruders. Orcs Must Die! 3 is …
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"Orcs Must Die 3 provides excellent orc-killing mayhem. With many imaginative traps and weapons, tower defense fans are sure to find something that catches their fancy. Plus, its gameplay is similar to the original so you enjoyed that, you&s;re sure …"
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85.0
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75.0
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is a hectic, challenging hybrid of action and tower defense that is a lot of fun for anyone looking to kill a ton of orcs."
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68.0
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70.0
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45.0
"The third entry in Orcs Must Die! series is an incomplete sequel that lacks new, innovative content, but nevertheless it&s;s still entertaining and addictive.."
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75.0
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85.0
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70.0
"Burn, toss, zap, stab - it still works and there are a lot of orcs which must die!"
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is excellent and delivers exactly what was expected. Even though it uses a lot of what was in Unchained and doesn&s;t bring much impactful innovation, showing even a great reuse of previous material, the game manages …"
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65.0
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"As far as co-op games go, into doesn&s;t get much more frantic or fun than Orcs Must Die! 3. It&s;s at time unintuitive and feels like it&s;s missing a few key quality of life features that could really help smooth …"
Read original review"Orcs Must Die 3, like its predecessors, will withstand the test of time for folks looking for a lighthearted strategic affair in the sadly-now-underrepresented trap genre."
Read original review"Orcs Must Die! 3 is very familiar to players of the second game but still a fun and goofy action/tower-defense challenge."
Read original review"Orcs Must Die! 3 is decent if the long-past due follow-up to the amazing Orcs Must Die! 2, yet it feels increasingly like development to the 2012 game than a genuine recovery or continuation."
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is a great return for the series, giving you a near endless number of ways to bring down destruction on the Orc hordes, even if the larger War Scenarios lose some of the series&s; carefully weighted …"
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is an excellent action and tower defense game, with minor technical flaws. Recommended for its content and online co-op mode."
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85.0
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is an excellent outing from Robot Entertainment, as it delivers exciting tower defense action along with some truly challenging sequences. The two new protagonists serve to usher the story in a new direction, while adding some …"
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 contains a ton of the tower defense/shooting hybrid gameplay that fans love – all delivered in a very polished package. The new war-sized levels deliver a massive jolt of fun, and there is plenty of content …"
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 does not innovate significantly – some might even call it lazy – but is an effective recollection of everything that made Robot Entertainment&s;s franchise so great in the past, turned up to eleven."
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"Xbox fans of strategic horde smashing will find a perfect home with Robot Entertainment’s latest game in the series. There are plenty of maps, challenges, and a variety of ways to defend your tower from the orcs. There are not …"
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"Orcs 3 doesn&s;t revolutionise the series, and while the story is a little light and the gameplay a tad repetitive, it&s;s so delightfully fun watching unsuspecting orcs haphazardly wander into your deadly machinations and be stabbed, skewered and smashed into …"
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is a great continuation of the series, providing some epic large scale battles and being true to the foundations that made the previous games so delightful."
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"A conservative but confident return to form from the masters of a much-loved genre."
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80.0
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40.0
"For me, many tower defense games feel like DPS checks against each wave, while Orcs Must Die feels active and engaging. Maybe it’s because it’s less about towers and more about traps, or perhaps it’s because of the physical nature …"
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"Robot Entertainment&s;s return with Orcs Must Die! 3 is good, but doesn&s;t feel like a step forward from OMD2, and is hurt by playing on Stadia."
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"Though its name offers no way around it, the creative ways you dispatching foes makes Orcs Must Die 3 perhaps the most addictive Stadia exclusive to date."
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45.0
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 isn’t much of a step (let alone, a leap) forward from the last installment, but after eight years maybe it’s just enough to remind people that hey, this fun fantasy franchise is still alive and kicking. …"
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"Despite some hitches in its structure and similar levels, new additions to the orc killing formula make Orcs Must Die! 3 as fun as the series has ever been."
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"It&s;s different, it&s;s better, it&s;s more orcish. If you&s;re a fan of the tower defense genre or you just like orc slaughter, Orcs Must Die! 3 is a great game for you. It will entertain both fans of games where …"
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"All-in-all, I had a great time with Orcs Must Die 3, and a lot of time spent in it to boot. If you have any passing interest in those old tower offensive games on those free game websites, check this …"
Read original review"Orcs Must Die! 3 is a solid tower defence game with great humour and a nice aesthetic, but the Stadia exclusivity will do it more harm than good"
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is an intrinsically enjoyable and fun game. With deep mechanics, a wealth of content offerings, rewarding progression and impressive level of scale, it’ll delight those of the strategy and action background. It’s narrative is harmless and …"
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is a welcome addition to consoles. Tower defense is one of my favorite genres, and there are not a lot of great games representing the genre on consoles. Orcs Must Die! 3 is a pretty great …"
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"Returning the franchise to the original style seems to have paid off. With brilliant, fast paced, tower defence gameplay on offer it will keep two cooping players thoroughly entertained and wanting to play just that one more level. There&s;s a …"
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is a highly entertaining blend of action and tower defense. Although the formula hasn&s;t changed substantially from the previous installments in the series, the game promises unadulterated fun, especially in co-op play, and slaying orcs in …"
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"Orcs Must Die 3 is a captivating, funny, and varied tower defense/action game hybrid best suited to those that don&s;t want to just be armchair generals. But with a massive difficulty spike halfway through the campaign, it doesn&s;t quite find …"
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"As tower defense games go, this should be the new gold standard as it’s chock full of strategy but levels that with being able to actually control your hero and let you go hands on with the action. Hopefully this …"
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"Even with its rough edges, this is a very important game for the platform and sets a standard Stadia needs to follow with its exclusives going forward."
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"Orcs Must Die! 3 is definitely a case of “another verse, same as the first”, but fortunately the formula still holds up. The changes to gameplay balance mostly work, as does the implementation of the new Scramble game mode. However, …"
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"A co-op focus, and complicated difficulty curve can make the game stressful at times, but in the end it&s;s worth the pain."
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"A couple of notable modes and a few of new traps could not hold the wave of disenchantment with Orcs Must Die! 3."
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