This game is a mix of Warcraft III RTS and War for the Overworld management. You build your underground dungeon and manage it while fending off heroes. Then you send your minions to the surface where you engage in RTS battles against the heroes on their home turf. Neither the management nor the RTS is particularly challenging, but it is very entertaining. The art is very stylized, you have parody humor and what I would classify as easy going game play. It is a game that is not there to push you to your limits and challenge, it is there to entertain, and it does it wonderfully. If you are a fan of this style of humor, I would say that this is a definite pick up. You can enjoy this game and actually get through it without having to be an RTS or management pro. If you don't enjoy the humor or are looking for something that is a lot tougher probably a different game is for you. If you enjoy the humor but want tougher, pick up the "A Game of Winter" DLC. In any case, I had a lot of fun with this game and recommend it.
This DLC is a nice conclusion to the main game and sets up Dungeons 3. It also follows the main game in style and humor. The big difference is that you play as the undead and there is an extreme difficulty spike. With 5 being a median difficulty the main game is around 3.5 to 4. This DLC ramps the difficulty up from 5 to 6 to 9 within the span of a few missions. The difficulty spike comes in a couple of forms. The first is that there are certain parts of the dungeon that if you dig into it to early, you will have unlimited spawns coming at you before you are prepared to deal with it...game over. Missions that require a lot of RTS speed and micro managing to prevent a cascading effect where you will eventually be overwhelmed by unlimited waves coming at you, just wearing you down through attrition....game over. If you are very good at micromanaging at speed and are pro RTS, this is probably fine for you. I had to use cheats to get through a few missions. With all this said, I do give it 4 stars, as I was allowed to cheat to get through and it is just a plain fun game. If you like a mix of Warcraft III RTS and War for the Overworld management, you will like this game.
This game has an awesome story, great characters, terrific platforming and what I would consider puzzles that are challenging without being overly obtuse or frustrating. With that said though the combat is what I would classify as wretched, along with a horrible camera system. Those two issues alone take a full star off this game. However, if you can look past those issues you will find one hell of a gem in the sands of time. There is a demo out for it, so give it a try. You won’t be disappointed.
