Castle Crashers - Why you should buy this game.

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Ok first the game is huge. Go to Gametrailers.com and watch their movies. From the opening at the castle, to the War Machine, to the giant Barbarian holding a spiked door Boss is one level, and there are twenty of those in the game. Each Level will have at least one of Behemoth's legendarily designed bosses.

This game has a 99 level RPG system with stats given at each level to go into Strength, Agility, Magic and Defense. It has 26 playable characters in total, each with it's own brand of magic, some classes do share magic but alot are unique. Known magic classes so far: Alien Hominid's Gun, Ice, Fire, Lightning, Poison, Dark, Bone, Ninja, Earth, Arrows/bombs, Killer Bees.

40 Unlockable weapons with various stat bonuses and level requirements like any other RPG. These can be bought from shops scattered around the world, dropped off enemies & bosses, found in the environment (like a pitchfork in a haystack), buried (you can buy a spade and dig for treasure ala Zelda) or hidden in the scenary

Animal Orbs: These are familiars that you find throughout the game and can be equipped to follow you around permanently. They include a Dog that will find spots for buried treasure, A giant chicken (The behemoth) that increases stats and Ozzy Ozbourne's worst nightmare: A bat that will randomly munch on opponent's heads.

Ability unlocks: you will get new combos as you level up but also as you invest points into your various attributes. For example putting points into agility might get you a launching spiral lunge while putting points in strength would get you a slash that lifts your opponent into the air. (Those moves do exist, I'm only guessing that those particular combos relate to stats)

Loads of other items, like potions that revive you when dead, bow and arrows, bombs and the PBJ sandwich that makes you a roidal fist swinging lunatic for 10 seconds, all assigned to the B button.

Most importantly 4 Player Online and Local co-op and you can mix it up anyway you like (I.e. 2 players playing locally at house A, playing online with 1 player at house B and the last one at house C). Revive your fallen allies with CPR!

Story based game that has you searching for 4 princesses to rescue, (when you rescue a Princess you have to fight your remaining team mates to the death for a cheeky bit of nooky with the royal gal) and retrieve a magic obelisk from an evil Warlock.

Fully Hand drawn, beautiful artwork by Dan Paladin with a truly wicked sense of humour throughout, all rendered in HD quality.

Controls work with light slash, heavy slash, jump and support item, while holding down the right trigger turns each into a magic move: Summon magic (Clouds, blasts, massive icicle storm), Magic slash, Magic Projectile and Magic Super Jump.

Mini games and other goodies scattered throughout the game such as mountable creatures to devour your enemies, Racing through forests on Spastic Boweled Deer whilst being chase by an enormous troll.

Versus mode to kick the snot out of your mates and Arena mode which pits you against a never ending army of AI opponents untill you die.
This game has been developed by a small independant company called the Behemoth. They're a team of about 7 guys working overtime to bring you this project. As you can see from all this, Castle Crashers is a game which has been filled with as many features and modes as Tom Fulp and his team could fit in it, or wanted to see, as gamers themselves. If you have the points (Price announced August 25th) then Microsoft already has your money, it's about showing your support for a company who has a rare ethos when it comes to making their games, and that's generosity to the player. Support the development of good games, and buy Castle Crashers.