Castle Crashers has a lot of character but not much else, with grind-tastic gameplay that's wafer-thin and repetitive. This game comes nowhere close to justifying its hefty asking price.
Available on:
Xbox 360,
PS3
Genre: Action Release date: August 27, 2008 Published by: The Behemoth Developed by: The Behemoth
Games like Castle Crashers are why we 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
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ESRB Rating
Castle Crashers is rated: Teen
Blood and Gore,
Cartoon Violence,
Crude Humor