Games like Castle Crashers are why Games Radar love homebrew gaming. Developer The Behemoth excels at taking classic arcade concepts and reworking them for today's gamer in splashy, flashy cartoon fashion. Its previous title, Alien Hominid, was an homage to old-school, 2D side scrollers like Metal Slug. Similarly, Castle Crashers plays like nothing so much as a modernized love letter to classic four-player hack-and-slash games, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with added vehicle sections, or a four-player take on Golden Axe.
Games Radar recently grabbed some hands-on time with this castle-conquering, co-op-focused Xbox Live Arcade entry, and they are happy to report the team's core design staples - simple, yet satisfying gameplay and sharp humor - appear to be fully intact for their sophomore effort. But more on the funny in a moment. First, let's see how this baby plays.
Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC will be launching on August 6th; the DLC allows players to create their own characters and more.
After well over a decade, Indie darling Castle Crashers is getting a brand new DLC, and it's going to bring about some pretty sizable changes.
Andrew M writes: "To celebrate the mini renascence of brawlers we've had recently, we came up with a list of 4 more classics we hope to see get a revival soon."
How much you want to bet a Simpsons game remake wouldn't have Marge wielding that vacuum?
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