Rock of Ages 3: Make-and-Break – Played

“And Now for Something Completely Different”. At least in the view of the rest of the game landscape, because, after all, is Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break – which is on the second of June of this year, is to appear – the third entry in the series, a stone ball, the story rolls and all the rolls down, which is not fast enough pike can. In a frantic pace, we are rolling along the various routes to the enemy castle to curl up in gates, to smash targets to earn points or just as soon as possible – and intact – to reach the finish line and on the way there, almost rolls, all sorts of mischief under the architectonics of the local people to inflict.

But now, for once, honestly, who is also a property on a sphere can be runway sell? And, as well, in – in , Monty Python’s Flying Circus , reminiscent of the style of Cut-Out animations held people in Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break, and whether this error constantly for the kiss on the Hand to come. However, they and their houses are not usually the main focus of the role of the wrecking ball.

Nemo has blinded me

On the Central, fundamental elements of the gameplay, but funny staged Tutorial by us. The same tells us the story of the original Nemo. Properly, not Pixar’s little Clown or anemone fish, but the list of Greek Odysseus, Polyphemus, the one-eyed son of Poseidon-rich, a thorn in the eye, is the main character of the tutorial. The Protagonist of Homer’s Odyssey in a slightly modified Form of the ancient heroic epic new proof: Who has the damage need not worry for the ridicule, especially if the damage was taught by Odysseus. At the end of the arms, the Cyclops is blinded, but also a mockery of his one-eyed cronies become, after all, he asserts, but persistent to be of anyone blinded been. But what that has to with Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break to do?







Tower-Defense, and Gate Destruction

During the campaign, we roll the round boulders, or other rollable objects – in the truest sense of the word, by the story, or are treated to various historical points in time, even stone. So it is in the first Level of the campaign, which serves as a Tutorial, to escape from the cave of Polyphemus, in which Odysseus and his companions have lost. To roll this end, we have a huge skein of sheep against those rocks, by means of which the one-eyed people eater in his stone Dwelling. After a few rounds of violent collisions with the rocks to burst the same, and we can run out of the cave.

However, is Polyphemus, as in the epic template of Homer, also in Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break is not so easily beaten. Now he’s trying to, in turn, with the targeted ball bumps stand in the way of Escape. Here, too, the developers have taken a few narrative liberties: Polyphemus attacking any fleet, but our camp at the foot of a mountain. To prevent the expressed debris shattered the gate of our camp, we need to Polyphemus, respectively, its stone balls, all sorts of obstacles in the way. In the style of the Tower Defense genre, the wide range of buildings and equipment available to us for this purpose, with workers who receive, in the course of the campaign will also increase. With walls, we stop the bullets, at least for a short time, because a lot of the resistance you can not offer the boulders before they are of the same shattered. Rotating wooden beams, the rock in turn will serve to throw chunks out of the car and to carry in the ideal case, into the abyss.







The vile Mammon

But all this costs money. For this purpose, scattered on the Maps again and again mines from which our men – using a specific type of building – Gold mountains. From and to drop – thanks to the gods – also bulging sacks of gold from the sky, we collected thanks to our costly defence wall to build. Then, Polyphemus rolls along – in a number of shaft – stones of the path. As soon as the energy beams of the boulders, buildings due to collisions with the defense or crash, is crumble the same to dust and pose no threat to our gate and more. Also while the rock is already rolling, we can work on our Defence line-up along the route. Only limitation: the fields with an already damaged infrastructure can be built once and broke are now. This also means that we need to be smart to build, since we otherwise undeveloped, at the latest, after the second Round of large patches of the slopes of the enemy, and the same, therefore, easy game. In addition, we must pay attention to in addition to the dwindling Gold resources that we can use of every defence system, only a certain number of pieces. To destroy once the opponent has begun the facilities, we can however, new, up to a maximum number sufficient gold reserves, provided the retrofitting. We have survived all the waves we can make in our ship out of the dust. Were it not for the us now zürnende father of the Cyclops.

An explosive mixture

It is already in the Preview Build of Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break discretion as to what variety of game modes for us in the finished campaign yet expect to be. In addition to the Roll of castle gates, and the defense of its own mounting before pre-rolling the Rock is the same is the Form of the Time trial (time trial): Here it is a bomb as quickly as possible and in any event before it explodes, to maneuver to the goal. We don’t have to pay attention only to the mostly trackless train that winds in the most beautiful curves in front of us, but at the same time on the different siege equipment, which are blocking the way and us into the abyss let it roll, what is the cost of important time.

In an obstacle course race, we need to assert ourselves against the AI and against the same the finish line roles. As Humpty Dumpty, from the Lewis Carolls Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland) well-known anthropomorphic Egg, is it ever “just”, without prejudice to the objective to be reached. As with eggs, however, the same have not only a roll maneuver is quite unsuitable Form, they are also extremely fragile. Humpty was reduced Dumpty three times on his Yolk is the same gone three times to break, or the time has expired, you must repeat the Level.







Marble Maker 3

But also for Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break is, what other representative of competitive models, the Highscore-hunting and head-to-head races are designed, the following applies: The game keeps you in the fight against the AI in narrow limits. Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break lives from competitive Against each other rollers with human players. Whether it comes down about to the bet best times, in the Slope-roles to establish or enemy castle gates to curl up in, while at the same time, adjust the effort to the opponent access to a castle gate to; always, the game is fun with human involvement. For this reason, there are in Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break, in addition to the campaign, the possibility of Community tracks down, or other players, self-made tracks available to make. Similar to Nintendo’s Mario Maker seems to be the limit of the Possible the coming to the use of editor, primarily in the imagination of the Community to exist. However, this must be first of all, as the present, currently, for test purposes, posted online, stretches of very simple first steps. This is a Online will in the finished game, in addition, multi-player mode for up to four players and even a local split-screen mode for two players are available.

Pitfalls of the lowlands

The control of the editor is mainly with the mouse and keyboard well out of Hand, but also the exclusive owner of the Gamepads don’t have to despair. Both peripherals Before even have their respective disadvantages as well. While it is clearly to curtail not more enjoyable using the Gamepad the most diverse slopes down and to have such a successful access to the enemy’s fortress, or the goal line, just use the Tower Defense chamfer easier with the mouse; especially if the defense has to be built up in the heat of battle quickly since the opponent is already, in the truest sense of the word, to Roll on in.







CONCLUSION

Rock of Ages 3: Make-and-Break is certainly a game for refined tastes and, above all, friends competitive hunt for high scores, the joy of each curve and the siege zone, meticulously studying every possible second to save, or with the greatest swing against the gate of the enemy to pop. Both the with rock rhythms and instruments blended classical music as well as the graphic style and build on the absurd situation Comedy and an ironic staging of historical events and figures. That this can succeed in entertaining is demonstrated not least by the Tutorial. Whether the already large selection in the route editor, finally, to the possibilities of, for example, a Super Mario Maker approach, and thus, the Motivation of the Community for a longer period of time is high can keep, because of the same will be the success of Rock of Ages 3: Make-and-Break – depend – must be the Release show. Anyway, I’m curious what the developers leave up to the Release on the second of June, so think of everything.

What Rock of Ages 3: Make and Break is? A mix of Tower Defense, and obstacle course racing bonds on the competitive hunt for high scores.
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch
Tested: Build 89361 (Beta) on PC Intel Core i5-6600K, 4x 3.5 GHz, 16 GB RAM, AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Developer / Publisher: ACE Team, the Giant Monkey Robot/ mode Games, 3goo
Release: 02. June 2020
Link: Official Website