Rock of Ages - quality smashing material

When I was a boy living in the beautiful hills of North Carolina, me and the other kids from the neighborhood had a game that we would always turn to when we were feeling especially rowdy. We called it 'Dodge Rock'. If you've ever played dodgeball, you can see where this is going.

Luckily no teeth were lost [my own teeth, anyways], and a neat game is presently installed on my computer that assists in the reminiscing of those few glorious moments where hurling fistfuls of rocks

at girls was completely okay. 

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Anyways, Rock of Ages. It is something unique that truly defies current genres, so i'll describe it as a "one-way, destruction centered platformer with tower-defense elements" kind of game. A game where you control a big rock and smash everything possible on the visceral road to busting down the enemy's castle gates, while simultaneously building structures that will hopefully slow down the enemy from doing the same to you, in a rather intense race to destruction.

This, coupled with a very Monty Python-esque sense of humor, makes it a riot. If giggling at little men from an assortment of different time periods being squished under your rocky underbody is funny to you, then doing it alongside quirky jokes and satirisms will have you rolling, pun intended. 

The last thing I would like to mention in this brief thought is that it has an interesting take on multiplayer. Of course there is the obvious choice of having two people compete against each other in the standard way of the game, but there is also Skeeball mode. Which is an absurdly competitive game of boulder-smashing your way down a cluttered race track into an assortment of holes for points.

And to that I say, what can't be made more fun than a pair of balls and a competitive atmosphere.

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