Who knew that slaying orcs could be this fun? For some reason I played the second one first a long time ago, and I rememeber getting stuck at many levels, as they felt too co-op oriented in their design. As this one is single-player only the issue is pretty much non-existent. I also remember a lot of overly tanky enemies, and some of these are present in this entry as well. The only thing that differentiates them from regular "bigger" enemies is the big-ass health bar which can take up to a minute of constant shooting to disappear. It's really annoying and it cocklobcks you from actually managing the enemy horde (so pretty much the fun part of the game) as you have to focus on this one singular guy. It's especially bad when you run out of mana and have to hit him with the basic crossbow, which is a rather shitty deafult weapon. I wish there were more options in that aspect, as every other weapon (aside from the sword, but that one is even worse) uses mana. If it comes to the traps though, there is a pretty big variety of them, and I think everyone can find something they'll like. Not sure if I like the approach of giving the player 1 new thing every level instead of having like a shop where they would unlock whatever they wanted, but as it was the first game in the franchise I'll let it slide.

What else is there to say? It's pretty much a classic at this point, so if you don't have it - buy it. Despite it's shortcomings it probably has one of the best price to fun ratios out there, especiaclly if you consider the on-sale price.