Rock of Ages - My first Review!!!

Pick Super monkey ball, add tower defense while you're waiting your ball to restore ,Shadow of colossus when you're playing a boss fight and a lot of jokes with classical history/Medium age: this is Rock of ages, the last game made by the Ace team.

With a unique gameplay system, Rock of ages is a well made comedy/platform/tower defense game that will entertain you for, at least, 6 hours + multiplayer mode play and make you have a few good laughs!

In the game you're Sysyfus, a mortal that raged the gods, and when he died he was condemned to push a rock uphill for the eternity. One day, a little demon was fooling around with Sysyfus, because of that he became enraged and started to use the ball to smash his opponents!!

And all the regular matches are like this:
You have an enemy, both of your balls will start from the middle of the map, that is always symmetric by the way, and while your ball is not ready to be launched yet you can plant traps for your make more difficult your enemy reach your stronghold and break your gate, because if he break your gate he will smash Sysyfus and you'll lost the match.

Regular match:

And we have the bosses fight's, where you need to hit the gigantic boss in his weak spot:

As you can see, Rock of ages have some pretty good ambient graphics, powered with Physx, and a nice and funny style in the characters.

Lets talk now about the fun and challenge of this game. I'll talk abut these two in the same time because in this game they're 100% co-related. The game starts very funny, but not challenging at all. In the middle of the game, about 4h of gameplay, they're perfectly balanced, the game is funny and challenging at the right dosage.

But after that all the good jokes are past behind, and the gameplay complex gameplay transforms itself in a rock race, and the tower defense part o the game becomes kinda useless, you get more results trying to shoot your enemy with your stronghold catapult than placing towers and etc.

The plot of this game... 

Well, the plot is you smashing people in history. Simple as that. Nothing more to say.

Now, last but not east, the X-Factor!

In this game, the X-factor is the unique gameplay and using metaphors as historical indicators, like the plague, that in the game is a guy that want to be friends with everyone, but kill's whom sees him, and Plato and Aristoteles becoming zombies in the end of the medium era, indicating the iluminism.

Said all that, I believe i can grade this game now!

• Graphics -         16pts    Great models, good colors and physix makes it look a lot better.
• Gameplay -       20pts     Diverse, but the tower defense became useless in the end of the game.
• Soundtrack -     10pts     Great music and sound effects!
• Plot -                  5pts      No storyline, just a historical mash up
• Fun -                  7pts      Quite fun in the first half of the game... Deserves 7
• Challenge -        6pts      How much sweat i gave to finish this game
• X-factor -           8pts     They aimed at making something unique, and they achieved that.                         a
• Total:                72pts 

Conclusion: You have 20 bucks? Have nothing to do it with? Have nothing to do for 6h?  I recommend this 

game.

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