Castle Crashers is a fun Xbox Live Arcade game which tries to win over the audience with it's colorful and halarious world. It is also one of the best games on the Marketplace.

Gameplay: The game is a Beat 'em up and a damn good one at that. The gameplay is solid and has alot of variations, wheather this means riding on a deer fueled by feces or eat a sandwich makes you beefy and strong the game always manages to impress. In the game you can use melee weapons, magic and tools like bows in order to kill your enemies as effectively as posibble. You can upgrade each one of these strategies to make them even better and this difference really shows. As is the problem with Beat 'em ups the game suffers from the fact that you can hit anyone unless you are in the same place as they are and by that i mean you need to go up and down to be able to strike them, while this is not a huge problem and is in every Beat 'em up it is easily forgiven. The games bosses are spectacular and always a blast to fight and in what other game does your enemy make the animals of the forest defecate. You can unlock various characters in the game but they dont differ much other than skin and magic. The game has a 4-player cooperative multiplayer mode which is how the game was meant to be played, However it does suffer from lagg, slow matchmaking and the fact that playing it is a complete mess.
Gameplay score:7

Graphics: The graphics in the game are animated and cartoony, this is a very good thing considering the games art design and near insane ideas is the stronger point of it. The animations are fluid and combat encounters are fast paced which doesn't surprise me considering the games developers have made a lot of flash games with the same ideas at Newgrounds.com which i believe everyone should check out. In the game you get to go from generic medieval castles, barbaric fortifications, the arabian desert and many more and they always manage to impress.
Graphics score:10

Story: The games story doesn't live up to much and isn't all that impressive at all. Basically the king's magic crystal has been stolen and it your job to take it back as you defeat countless enemies in order to get to the Evil Wizards lair. And that's pretty much it. The story can be forgiven because the game never really focused on it.
Story score:3

Sound: The sounds of Castle Crashers are as said previously, cartoony and halarious. You get to see bosses roar, weapons swing and magic attacks cast but that about it.The game doesn't have any memorable sounds but it does have an amazing soundtrack as i could listen to the Rage of Champions theme from Toss The Turtle for about an hour, haven't heard it? Then go! Google it!
Sound score:6

Verdict: The game tries to lure the player in with it's amazing art design, and it works!
Total score:8.6

My charger for my Laptop doesn't work so i decided to make this review on my rusty old Compaq. Surprised it didn't implode or something. Also you might notice that it is short but that is because it is a arcade review.