You could choose to engage in combat personally in the originals, but it was often just that: a choice. There's no subtlety or strategy to the way they're used though. Greens teleport and perform sneak attacks.
Browns are basic attack creatures, blues will hang back in combat but heal you if you stand still. Minions will follow you around and behave, broadly, according to their type. You no longer control them directly, but instead summon them from a single digit supply that is topped up by attacking portal towers, which spit out "minion cubes". Yes, the minions are back but their use has been heavily altered. Occasionally you'll have to remember a sequence of four icons, or send a minion of a specific colour type through a barrier to stand on a trigger. Puzzles are sporadic and tissue thin - stand on this trigger, stand on that trigger. There's rarely an objective more complex than to simply follow the path to the next area, and nor are the maps troubled by many unusual or interactive features. Gameplay takes the form of tedious missions that lead you through linear environments in a Diablo-lite style. Equip Malady with a wand that has a chance to poison, electrocute or burn and it still shoots the same purple plasma. Even if you cash in your loot for a new weapon, the change can be hard to spot.
Occasionally, you're forced into a stuttering checkpoint race against the clock for no apparent reason.Įach offers a limited and linear skill tree progression, which increases damage and health, but throughout the game your arsenal never expands beyond a predictable trio of attack options: Fast Attack, Heavy Attack and Special Attack. Similarly, dwarven tank Hawken gets in close with his axe, while necromancer Malady shoots bolts of purple death from afar. Cryos, imaginatively, uses ice magic but prefers to cast spells from a distance. Inferna wields a flaming sword and has fire-based powers. Two are melee fighters, two specialise in ranged attacks. The four player characters set expectations appropriately low in terms of creativity and wit. Your task - with up to three other players - is to bring evil back to the land after ten years of disgusting peace, love and happiness.
Here's the new pitch: you are one of four Netherghuls, cursed warriors summoned from Hell by Gnarl, leader of the Overlord's minions. That's a problem, since in 2015 there's a new Overlord game, but it's one that has taken a sharp turn towards the generic, ditching the viewpoint, controls and genre-hopping of its predecessors and swapping them for a clumsy and drab top-down action RPG template.
#OVERLORD FELLOWSHIP OF EVIL PS4#
Availability: Also available on Xbox One and PS4.Part strategy game, part puzzler, yet viewed as a third person action game, it's fair to say that there was nothing quite like them at the time, and there's still nothing like them now. Though far from perfect, the original Overlord and its 2009 sequel had one very important thing going for them: they were different.Ĭasting you as a newly resurrected evil deity - a thinly veiled off-brand Sauron from Lord of the Rings - you were able to gather a small army of skittering, gibbering minions and steer them around the screen en masse, causing mayhem and destruction, and generally putting the boot into a twee fantasy land that had it coming. Bland at best, broken at worst, this shallow reinvention of the cult strategy puzzler is hell for both fans and newcomers.
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