Of Orcs and Men is an action RPG, taking place in a dark and mature universe where Greenskins (orcs and goblins) have finally been defeated after a long war against the human kingdom. The emperor has decided that, in order to prevent any further war against the Greenskins, it’s best to just commit full-on genocide — unfortunately for you, you’ll be controlling an orc and a goblin.
As the game starts, Arkail (the massive orc) and Styx (the stealthy goblin) are among the last of their race still alive. They are sent on a suicide mission – to reach the land of the humans and assassinate the Emperor, thus stopping the massacre and enslavement of greenskins.
Originally, while playing with the prototype, we enjoyed controlling Styx and Arkail individually, but even more, we liked the combinations they could have. We kept improving features to make them as unique as possible, but we also worked on tandem attacks for use in combat (like throwing the goblin with the orc, boosting one another up, etc.).
We also improved the role playing aspect of the game by giving each of them different abilities, characteristics and inventory. This one came rather easily, as we can’t imagine Arkail wearing Styx armor… unless you want him wearing very tight armor.
A funny note about this game – as we finished the prototype and began pre-production, lots of publishers told us that our game would never perform because players only wanted to play the good guys. “No one will want to be an orc or a goblin!” they said, and of course, we knew things were not black and white in this game.
We spent lots of time creating a mature universe, rethinking standards of the fantasy genre. Even very early on, we strongly believed this game had potential, and that players wanted something a bit more original than playing yet another human paladin, in shiny armor, killing stupid goblins, while saving swords and looting the princess (or is it the other way around?). Now when I see the feedback we’ve gotten for Of Orcs and Men around the world, I’m glad we listened to our gut and made this game for you, the players.
Well, I hope you’ll have as much fun with the game as we did while developing it. You’ll be able to download the game straight to your PS3 when PSN updates on Tuesday. Oh and one last thing, good luck with the Trophies… some of our internal testers are still having a hard time beating the extreme difficulty!
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I'm the boss: Unlock all of the Trophies in Of Orcs and Men Big chest lover: Find and empty 20 chests Bloodjaw: Finish Of Orcs and Men at the highest difficulty level Guidance counselor: Put together the best squad possible to assault the Pillar I'm a killer: Assassinate 47 enemies I've got my friends in my head: Finish Chapter 3 at any difficulty level In open air: Finish Chapter 2 at any difficulty level Jack of all blades: Hit eight enemies with a single attack Mercenary: Finish Of Orcs and Men at Normal level My house!: Learn and improve every Skill in a single tree. Off the Wall: Complete Chapter 1 on any difficulty setting Repeat offender: Finish Chapter 5 at any difficulty level Warrior: Finish Of Orcs and Men at Hard level You crack me up: Break 15 spinal columns while Berserk Your sister too: Finish Chapter 4 at any difficulty level A hair too late: Save a brunette in distress All this for that: Take pure water to the Shaman of the Mire Anger management: Follow the path of the Master Back to business: Trade an item Class struggle: Prevent a miners' revolt in the Mire Deratizator: Deal with the Scourge issue in the shantytown Go bling-bling: Equip a full set of upgraded equipment (weapons and armor) Hand shake: Win the Black Hand challenge I don't like chit-chat: Kill Gorkash the head Foreman without further ado I know a shortcut: Bind Skills to both of each character's shortcut keys Inner rage: Follow the path of the Berserker Into the shadow: Follow the way of the Shadowgoblin King of the arena: Survive the Row Manual worker: Defeat a boss without using an automatic attack (assassinations excluded) No quarter: Kill all the dug-in foremen and guards Nobody's perfect: Kill the Imperial officer in the Monastery One less nutcase: Put an end to the madness of the Shaman of the Bowels Poisoner: Poison three different enemies at the same time Rakash: Finish Of Orcs and Men at Easy level Regicide the first: Kill Emperor Damocles Samaritan: Spare Dakath the repentant Slicer-Dicer: Follow the path of the Assassin Smart and smarter: Upgrade a Skill Talk it out: Have Styx calm things down a bit Team spirit: Put together a special squad to assault the Pillar The beast and the beast: Be buddy-buddy with a force of nature The hard way: Answer Sork's provocation in a language he understands Throat-slitter: Let Styx take out the Imperial sentinels of the Mire on his own To each his branch: Learn every Skill in a single tree. Well trained: Kill Dorek the Trainer You mythed!: Confront Braggart with his lies
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