{"id":20878,"date":"2013-04-20T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T18:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=20878"},"modified":"2013-04-20T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T20:20:18","slug":"dinos-get-beatdown-return-as-a-horde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/20\/dinos-get-beatdown-return-as-a-horde\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinos get Beatdown, return as a Horde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"20878\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/orion.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/orion.jpg\" alt=\"orion\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20879\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orion: Dino Beatdown, by Spiral Game Studios, has been re-released as <a href=\"http:\/\/dinohorde.com\/\">Orion: Dino Horde<\/a>. Spiral would like everyone to forget the low review scores and technical issues that plagued the game when it was first released in May 2012 and give it a shot in its relaunched state. In fact, Spiral calls Horde a sequel to Beatdown even though it&#8217;s essentially the same game, but with more polished animations, new weapons and dinosaurs, and the addition of an in-game microtransaction store. Owners of Beatdown got the update for free.<\/p>\n<p>All is not rosy however. Beatdown, besides getting panned by reviewers, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatheryourparty.com\/articles\/2012\/05\/04\/orion-employee-beatdown\/\">plagued with controversy<\/a> due to allegations that the developer had stolen assets from Natural Selection 2 as well as laying off team members to avoid paying them. The Horde update has been similarly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2013-04-18-orion-dino-horde-dev-hits-back-at-allegations-of-metacritic-manipulation\">mired in upset<\/a> amid accusations that Spiral was trying to manipulate Metacritic score of Beatdown by classifying Horde as a new game. Spiral&#8217;s head David Prassel has even been accused of using too heavy a hand in moderating Steam forums by locking and deleting insulting threads. Of course, the new addition of an in-game store has not endeared him to the few fans he had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dinos get Beatdown, return as a Horde - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/20\/dinos-get-beatdown-return-as-a-horde\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dinos get Beatdown, return as a Horde - 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