Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap proves slaughtering orcs is like riding a bike, but way more fun | Gaming

I haven’t played a tower defence game in almost a decade, but it’s amazing how quick my Orcs Must Die! reflexes come back to me when there’s a horde of greenskinned monsters running for my rift. 

You would be forgiven for not remembering Orcs Must Die!. It came out back in 2011 and got significant praise for the way it blended third-person action with tower defence strategy—a game where you spend your time hurling down traps and battering every orc you could see. The goal, for those uninitiated, is to protect your fancy rift from orcs. If more than a handful of orcs jump into the rift, you fail. So, you set up traps and chokepoints and get ready to stab, shoot, burn and blast orcs in every direction to protect it and live to fight another wave. In practice, this often involved…