Rock Of Ages 3: Make & Break has smashed by Steam’s citadel gates – presumably squashing the little papercraft Gabe that resides inside, killing him immediately. As per the title, Ace Team’s newest boulder-pusher permits you to assemble your very personal pleasant fantasy hillsides, every doomed to be crushed by your apocalyptic orb of alternative. It’s been a deadly month-long tumble through open beta, however lastly, Rock Of Ages Three is able to get rolling.
Naturally, Ace pushed issues off with a brand new launch trailer – hurling but extra boulders, cheese-wheels, meatballs and different assorted spherical nonsense down precarious, Monty Python-esque pathways.
The large distinction this time ’spherical is a degree editor, letting you piece collectively your personal bespoke descents in all method of themes – together with a delicious-looking spaghetti land demonstrated within the launch vid. These can then be shared on-line, supplying you with a pleasant financial institution of community-created hills to demolish when you’ve run over the bottom game’s tracks.
Mind, there’s loads to get by earlier than you begin downloading different individuals’s hellish hillsides. There’s one other large daft story mode stuffed with ahistorical mischief, cut-out gags and absurd boss fights. But Rock Of Ages Three additionally features a smattering of latest gamemodes. Humpty Dumpty’s extraordinarily fragile ball challenges you to finish programs in beneath two hits, whereas Time Trials have you ever rolling a bomb set to go off after a set time. Avalanche, in the meantime, places you on the defensive, tasking you with heading off a swarm of livid boulders.
Massive rocks are one thing of a development for Ace proper now, it appears. The Eternal Cylinder – a game that successfully places you within the footsteps of Rock Of Ages’ doomed cardboard peasants – made an look earlier this not-E3 season, and it still looks fantastically, bafflingly strange. As you’d need from Ace Team, actually.
At time of writing, we nonetheless don’t have a launch date for that colossal rolling pin. But if spheres are extra your pace, Rock Of Ages Three is out now on Steam for £25/€30/$30. Smashing stuff.
