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{{quote|'''Rock beats everything.'''|game tagline}}
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Sisyphus... the king who was cursed to spend the rest of his days push a giant boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back to the bottom, forcing him to start over again. After many hours of frustration, he gets fed up and decides to rebel against Zeus by rolling his boulder into Zeus' castle in order to escape from Hades and to freedom. From there, Sisyphus and the angry boulder go on a journey throughout the ages of art (from Ancient Greece to Medieval times, all the way up to the Romantic era), meeting powerful historical figures and smashing their defenses to pieces.
This is the story behind ''[[Rock of Ages]]'', a game developed by Ace Team (the minds behind the also-very-bizarre ''[[Zeno Clash]]''). The objective is to roll your boulder into your opponent's castle gate, while preventing him from destroying your gate by setting up towers, catapults, elephants and other traps to slow him down.
This game has nothing to do with the hymn, the [[Def Leppard]] song or the musical.
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* [[Angel]]: Michael.
* [[Art Shift]]: Each era takes images from artwork from the era. {{spoiler|Cronus transforms into a picture of his in-game model (which is in 3D) during his intro.}}
* [[Ascended Meme]]: Winning your first online battle wins you a rock with a [[Troll
* [[Attack of the
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[The Black Death]]: Personified as a skeleton simply named Plague.
* [[Blow You Away]]: Fans can be placed to blow a boulder off-course. Some of the higher-grade fans are [[
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: [[Leonardo
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]
* [[Dem Bones]]: Plague.
* [[Dracula]]: Vlad Tepes.
* [[
* [[Excuse Plot]]
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* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Bacchus.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Bacchus.
* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]: The Heavens.
* [[For Massive Damage]]: Each boss has an obvious weakness.
* {{spoiler|[[Gainax Ending]]: At the end of his struggle Sisyphus is crushed by the falling Cronus during his victory dance. After the credits the Rock hops into a random hole and discovers its master dancing with the rest of the characters in what seems to be Hell.}}
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: The hand that replaces the Rock whenever it falls off the track is never explained. It's styled after medieval portrayals of the hand of God, however.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Each battle ends with one player running over the other, followed by a squish sound and am immediate cut to a victory screen.
* [[Grapes of Luxury]]: Some cherubs feed them to Bacchus...until he [[I'm a Humanitarian|eats the cherubs.]]
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* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Bacchus.
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: The Plague. Unfortunately he vomits rats and [[Walking Wasteland|anything he approaches dies.]]
* [[Killed Mid
* [[Kill
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: '''Lou'''is XIV's intro has him [[Toilet Humor|using]] the '''loo''' in his throne.
** Which, incidentally, [[Shown Their Work|did happen]]. That's where the term "throne" as slang for the toilet comes from.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: In this game, [[Castlevania]]'s [[Dracula]] and real life inspiration for the original [[Dracula]], Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes, are one in the same.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: [[Leonardo
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Bacchus and Michaelangelo's David.
* [[New Media Are Evil]]: [[Leonardo
* [[Petal Power]]: Marie Antoinette throws massive flowers from her balcony, smothering and crushing nobles below.
* [[The Pope]]: Julius II, AKA "War Pope."
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* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: Driving your boulder into opponent's structures generates gold, which you can use to bolster your defenses between turns.
* [[Siege Engines]]: Catapults and trebuchets fire projectiles that chip away at a boulder's strength.
* [[Shout
** The art is a tremendous love letter to ''[[Monty Python and
** Ancient Greece recreates the pit scene from ''[[
** In the Middle Ages, a copy of the [[Castlevania]] is instead inhabited by [[Mythology Gag|Vlad Tepes.]]
** [[Leonardo
** See [[You Shall Not Pass]] and [[This Is Sparta]]
* [[Sinister Minister]]: Rochiele.
* [[Songs in
* [[Standard Snippet]]: The soundtrack uses plenty of stock classical pieces, most notably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxr84zacOfY "Dies Irae" by Mozart] for when you break through the enemy's gate {{spoiler|and when you fight the final boss}}.
* [[The Man Behind the Curtain]]: Most of the characters become this during the level.
* [[The Unfought]]: The major boss battles end when the boss is defeated and the characters introduced in those levels apparently escape being squished.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: Performed by none other by Leonidas.
* [[
* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Plague. [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Weaponized Landmark]]: Michelangelo's David.
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** [[Total Biscuit]] calls it "''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' crossed with Bowling crossed with ''[[Super Monkey Ball]]'' crossed with ''[[Monty Python]]''."
* [[Yandere]]: Marie Antoinette
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Performed by Gandalf, {{spoiler|only to be [[Killed Mid
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[[Category:Xbox Live Arcade]]
[[Category:Action Game]]
[[Category:Rock Of Ages]]▼
[[Category:Video Game]]
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