Rock Of Ages is far too limited to make a retail release but for just a few pounds (or less) it’s a highly entertaining novelty that makes you realise how needlessly serious other games take themselves. In that sense this is exactly the sort of game that download services such as PlayStation Network were made for. Unless there’s another game we’ve missed where you get to throw a giant boulder at Marie Antoinette’s palace. It may not be entirely unique to itself but at least it looks completely different to other video games. You can play split screen with a fellow human but that doesn’t change the mechanics or the rules, and so adds little to the longevity.Īnd yet even ignoring the question of whether Rock Of Ages is free or not we still love its Pythonesque humour and its distinctive presentation. Only some irritating boss battles and scenery changes offer any kind of variety, and although battling Michelangelo’s David looks amazing it’s even more frustrating to play than the main game. This tactic becomes impossible later on, but by that time you’re already likely to have tired of the game’s unrepentant repetition. To make matters worse, for many of the early stages you can break a stage’s back simply by channelling your inner Super Monkey and making a beeline for the fortress door as quickly as possible. Choosing where to place them is largely guesswork until well into a match and many of the defences are only useful in numbers, like a tank rush stuck in the mud. Your boulder can itself be broken and it takes your armies a good minute or so to build another one.īut in truth the whole Tower Defense angle is pretty simplistic and you rarely feel that your defences are all that much help. There are natural obstacles in the way, the smashing of which earns you gold, but also objects placed there by you and your opponent.īoth of you can build turrets and hire soldiers (from angry cows to woolly mammoths) and then lay them down in what you hope will be as inconvenient a pattern as possible. Taking control of the boulder works very much like Super Monkey Ball, with similarly sloped obstacle courses to navigate but much milder punishments for failing off the edge.

The premise is always the same though: to try and roll your boulder so that it smashes the gates on your opponent’s fortress, as they try and do the same to you. Given his mastery of pointless and repetitive tasks we’re tempted to nominate Sisyphus as the patron saint of video games.Īlthough there is an awful lot of boulder-rolling in Rock Of Ages the premise revolves around Sisyphus using his pet rock as a means of escape, first bursting through the gates of Hades and later taking on a variety of historical figures. Sisyphus was punished by Zeus and the other Greek gods to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill, only for it to always roll back down again once he got to the top.

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