Orcs Must Die! 3

This is a first-person shooter and tower-defense game where you lay down traps to defend against waves of orcs/etc. who are trying to destroy your McGuffin. Whatever your traps don't kill you have to shoot in the head.

I liked this game enough to beat the game and then play through all the levels again to get a perfect 5-skull playthrough for each. I played for 30 hours and had fun for most of that.

THE GOOD

• You can play coop with a friend.
• The zany plot and juvenile humour punctuate a whole lot of killing of orcs and their friends.
• It's fun to play and watch others play.
• The controls are smooth and functional.
• The game onboards you really well, introducing new features as you go along.
• It's a pretty simple game that would probably be fun for kids too.
• There are a lot of trap options that range from useful to showy, which gives you lots of opportunity for fun and experimentation.

THE BAD

• It took me a long time to realize that there is a feature in the game options to see your Par Time. This is how much time you have available to finish the level fast enough and earn a skull. Not knowing this can make time trials really frustrating. This feature should really be enabled by default.
• The game can be frustrating at times, requiring replaying through missions without necessarily understanding what went wrong or how to fix it. This is especially true if you are trying to get 5 skulls on every mission like I did.

THE UGLY

• The game was not registering some of my mouse-clicks at first. The solution was to switch the graphics to fullscreen mode instead of borderless windowed.
• This game does glorify violence against "the other", which you might find offensive.