#ACE Team
#ACE Team
by Omar (@siegarettes)
The original Rock of Ages was one of the first games I ever reviewed. I wasn’t kind to it. I was enamored with its tour of art history by way of competitive tower defense, but the actual act of playing it ended as a competition in seeing who could roll their boulder down a hill faster. Its humor never landed with me either. Still, I can’t deny that Rock of Ages was a spectacle. ACE Team is a developer that’s kept me engaged through the sheer wonder of their art direction. So the promise of a new, more varied living art gallery built by a more experience team was all I needed to show up for Rock of Ages 2.
By: Omar (@siegarettes)
If there’s one thing that keeps me coming back to ACE Team games, it’s their ability to channel aesthetics from all kinds of places into eye catching locations for digital violence. That’s still true in The Deadly Tower of Monsters, a top down action game that takes inspiration from B-movie special effects. It’s a fitting tribute; ACE Team games seem to occupy similar spaces among their peers, banking on the appeal of their art and design while leaving certain seams revealed.