History VideoGame / OrcsMustDieUnchained

* HappyDance: All the characters have dance moves when they manage to beat a map.

* PromotedToPlayable: Many of the elite enemy units and Guardians in the first two games have received special playable heroes in ''Unchained''. Stinkeye, for example, is a Cyclops Mage hero, while Bionca is a Ball-and-Chain hero, Blackpaw is a Gnoll Hunter hero, and Bloodspike is an Orc hero. Similarly, Dobbin is a Dwarf grenadier hero, and Ivy is an Elf archer hero.

* TrapMaster: What you have to be to actually survive in the game.

* FireIceLightning: Smolder is Fire, Hogarth is Ice, and Maximillian is Lightning. Add in Ivy for Earth.

** Flip traps and push traps. All they really do is just send enemies away from you, but they can also be used to send enemies flying to their doom.

** Viscous Tar. Being able to slow people in front of a grinder is very useful

* AwesomeYetImpractical: More of the higher tier traps are very flashy looking, but they often cost a ''lot'' of money that is better off spent placing more barricades or tar traps.

* {{Cap}}: There is a limit on how many traps a player can place at once, and certainly no where near enough to entirely cover a map. The game does advise though that players start placing inexpensive traps early in a match, then replace them with smaller numbers of more expensive traps later to maintain lethality while being able to spread them across more lanes.

* DevelopersForesight: You actually can ''not'' close off all entrances to the rift with barricades, as tempting as it is.

* NoFairCheating: In order to prevent players from crowding barricades, enemies will start attacking them if they stand too close.

* ZergRush: The Unchained run on this strategy, compared with the MightyGlacier that is the Order. Orcs are weaker, unit for unit, than Order troops, but there are a ''lot'' of them, and some will eventually get through even the densest trap combinations.

* LudicriousGibs: Even moreso than its predecessors, orc and human bodies will fly apart in all manner of hilariously gory ways.

* {{Cap}}: There is a limit on how many traps a player can place at once, and certainly no where near enough to entirely cover a map. This is partly due to CompetitiveBalance so the game never becomes unwinnable for an attacker. The game does advise though that players start placing inexpensive traps early in a match, then replace them with smaller numbers of more expensive traps later to maintain lethality while being able to spread them across more lanes.

* PromotedToPlayable: Many of the elite enemy units and Guardians in the first two games have received special playable heroes in ''Unchained''. Stinkeye, for example, is a Cyclops Mage hero, while Bionca is a Ball-and-Cahin hero, blackpaw is a Gnoll Hunter hero, and Bloodspike is an Orc hero. Similarly, Dobbin is a Dwarf grenadier hero, and Ivy is an Elf archer hero.

* TrapMaster: Gabriella's specialty, with abilities to stun enemy minions for crowd control and another ability to make all her traps fire at once to inflict massive damage. Most of the other heroes also buff traps in their own way. For example, Cygnus can deploy a pylon that boosts the damage of all traps nearby, and Oziel can use traps to drain health from enemies to boost his own.

* ChainmailBikini: Kind of averted. Four of the five female characters wear revealing clothing, although Midnight's cat suit isn't too bad. While Ivy's armor is revealing, she has more of an athletic build. It's somewhat justified by the worst offender, Smolder, whose outfit barely covers anything; since she deals with fire, her skimpy clothing could be considered practical. Gabriella is wearing a standard-issue low-cut sorceress's outfit that reveals an alarming amount of her cleavage but not all that much else, but since at least one of her attacks is a "charm" attack (i.e., mesmerizing rivals with her looks) it's also partially justified.

* ShockAndAwe: Anything that does lightening-based damage, though Maximilian specializes in it with his magic crossbow and [[AttackReflector lightening-shield]] ability.

* TrapMaster: Gabriella's specialty, with abilities to stun enemy minions for crowd control and another ability to make all her traps fire at once to inflict massive damage.
* WeHaveReserves: Effectively the attacking mentality: minion deaths are inevitable, one just needs to throw enough of them at the enemy at once (with help from the attacking players) to overwhelm them.

Developed by Robot Entertainment, ''Orcs Must Die! Unchained'' is a sequel to ''VideoGame/OrcsMustDie'' and ''Orcs Must Die! 2''. While [=OMD=] is a single-player AlwaysOverTheShoulder TowerDefense ActionGame and [=OMD2=] is more of the same with addition of CoOpMultiplayer, [=OMDU=] takes the series into a CompetitiveMultiplayer direction.

Borrowing heavily from the MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena tradition, each multiplayer arena is divided up into several discrete lanes, with base camps for spawning units and rifts at either side. The objective of each team of players is to drive their own minion units into the enemy's rift while defending their own. To that end each hero unit is divided up by role into either defender (setting traps and holding choke points in their own lanes so that [[YouShallNotPass enemy minions may not pass]]) and attacker ([[EscortMission escorting minions]] and damaging that which might impede them.) Essentially each lane becomes a microcosm of AsymmetricMultiplayer with one player playing TowerDefense and the other running a DeathCourse with another player as a BossBattle.

The game is currently in semi-public beta and is intended to be Free To Play.

* Fanservice: It's hard not to see Smolder as this.

* ChainmailBikini: Kind of averted. Four of the five female characters wear revealing clothing, although Midnight's isn't too bad. While Ivy's armor is revealing, she has more of an athletic build. It's somewhat justified by the worst offender, Smolder, whose outfit barely covers anything; since she deals with fire, her skimpy clothing could be considered practical. Gabriella is wearing a standard-issue low-cut sorceress's outfit that reveals an alarming amount of her cleavage but not all that much else, but since at least one of her attacks is a "charm" attack (i.e., mesmerizing rivals with her looks) it's also partially justified.

* ChainmailBikini: Kind of averted. Three of the four female characters wear revealing clothing, although Midnight's isn't too bad. It's somewhat justified by the worst offender, Smolder, whose outfit barely covers anything; since she deals with fire, her skimpy clothing could be considered practical. Gabriella is wearing a standard-issue low-cut sorceress's outfit that reveals an alarming amount of her cleavage but not all that much else, but since at least one of her attacks is a "charm" attack (i.e., mesmerizing rivals with her looks) it's also partially justified.

* PyroManiac: Somber. At first she just seems to be a standard fire elemental class, but some of her dialogue lines are laced with frenzy.

* ChainmailBikini: Kind of averted. Three of the four female characters wear revealing clothing, although Midnight's isn't too bad. It's somewhat justified by the worst offender, Smolder, whose outfit barely covers anything; since she deals with fire, her skimpy clothing could be considered practical. Gabriella is wearing a standard-issue low-cut sorceress's outfit that doesn't reveal all that much else, but since at least one of her attacks is a "charm" attack (i.e., mesmerizing rivals with her looks) it's also partially justified.

* ChainmailBikini: Kind of averted. Three of the four female characters wear revealing clothing, although Midnight's isn't particularly noticeable. However, it's somewhat justified by the worst offender, Smolder, since she deals with fire and her skimpy clothing could be considered practical, while Gabriella is wearing a standard-issue low-cut sorceress's outfit that doesn't reveal all that much else.

* ChainmailBikini: Kind of averted. Three of the four female characters wear revealing clothing, although Midnight isn't particularly noticeable. However, it's someone justified for Smolder, since she deals with fire and her skimpy clothing could be considered practical, while Gabriella is wearing a standard-issue low-cut sorceress's outfit that doesn't reveal all that much else.

* {{Cap}}: There is a limit on how many traps a player can place at once, and certainly no where near enough to entirely cover a map. This is partly due to CompetetiveBalance so the game never becomes unwinnable for an attacker. The game does advise though that players start placing inexpensive traps early in a match, then replace them with smaller numbers of more expensive traps later to maintain lethality while being able to spread them across more lanes.

* TrapMaster: Gabriella's specialty, with abilities to stun enemy minions for crowd control and another ability to make all her traps fire at once to inflict massive damage.

''Orcs Must Die! Unchained'' is a sequel to ''VideoGame/OrcsMustDie'' and ''Orcs Must Die! 2''. While [=OMD=] is a single-player AlwaysOverTheShoulder TowerDefense ActionGame and [=OMD2=] is more of the same with addition of CoOpMultiplayer, [=OMDU=] takes the series into a CompetitiveMultiplayer direction.

** [[OldMaster The Old War Mage]] is named Cygnus.

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