I particularly loved the cutscenes and I quickly realised why it had been compared to Monty Python - the humour is there, with its strange retelling of historical events, such as the assassination of Caesar, but with artwork that looks like something from the cartoons in The Meaning of Life. It looks superb with sharp but simple graphics that do not disappoint. There is so much game here and I had hours of fun with it. There are also a variety of different game types including Battle Matches, Races, Time Trials, and there's even a Humpty Dumpty mode in which you have to protect your egg as it rolls to the bottom of the hill without smashing him too many times. These stars are used to open up new matches and new obstacles. The idea is that the more matches you complete, the more stars you earn. You start off in Ancient Greece-inspired levels, but soon you face and meet other historical figures such as Caesar and William Tell Junior. The thing is, this sea is no ordinary sea as it also acts as a timeline. Once you finish the tutorial, you take control of a little ship (via an isometric view) and you can sail to various towers, which is how you choose your missions. So, we've explained the fundamentals, now onto the story. In that respect, I felt like the controls were simple enough and functioned well.
The controls make it really easy to manoeuvre your boulder, but you can really feel the difference between the different rocks that you roll. The main idea is to avoid damaging your boulder or destroying it on all the obstacles you encounter and then smashing your opponent's door open as fast and as hard as you possibly can. You're introduced to the core mechanics, which are: rolling a huge boulder down a course, dodging various obstacles, and smashing your rock into the door of a building (in the tutorial, it was another big rock blocking a cave entrance). You start off the single-player with a pretty decent tutorial.
We'll talk about Make later, but Break is where you find you'll the single-player and multiplayer modes. Starting from the title screen, the game is divided into two parts: Make and Break. OK, that's not a super-concise summary, but we'll get there. If I had to describe Rock of Ages in any way (which I do as it's my job), I would simply sum it up as being a competitive tower defence title with cute graphics and several modes that have a lot in common with arcade games such as Marble Madness. However, while these words do sort of describe the experience, they don't do justice to a great little title that I have had loads of fun with. Rock of Ages may sound like a euphemism for priapism, but when I first heard about the game, I caught the vague idea that it was a tower defence game with Monty Pythonesque humour.
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