EB: Codemasters has revealed a new Overlord game today, which is Overlord: Fellowship of Evil for the Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Rather than playing the hero, players will take on the role of the game’s antagonist, just like the first two entries that released for last-gen consoles.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "With the right amount of creativity any game series can be successfully spun-off to deliver something fresh and exciting, as the 10 games we honored a few months back as the best spin-offs ever showed off. Well today we’re looking at the other side of the coin at the spin-offs t hat may have intrigued us once but when they released we just wanted to go back to the way things should be and forget that the idea of expanding upon established game worlds ever crossed our minds. So today we are calling these terrible games out, hoping that they can serve as cautionary tales to the pitfalls of trying to spin-off a beloved franchise."
DOA Venus Vacation is probably the best... But also the most restrictive in terms of modding.
Didn't think Extreme Beach Volleyball was that bad. If anything, the PsP was probably the worst (imo anyway).
Also, some other spinoffs I would also add on the list are Akiba's Beat, Slashy Souls, Banjo Kazooie N&B (not terrible but I'm pretty sure everyone wanted a third game, not some racing spinoff), LBP karting (not as good as Modnation Racers), MGSurvive, Resident Evil Survivor, Pacman 2 Adventures, Pokemon Channel, Hotel Mario, Street Fighter The Movie game, Twisted Metal Small Brawl and Guilty Gear Overture.
Daniel writes "For those that had the chance to experience Overlord and Overlord II, most would look back fondly on the series, although the previous games never really excelled at lighting up the stage, they at least turned up and strived to present players with humour and acceptable forms of combat. The previous two titles held some good value for money and for the most part were fairly enjoyable experiences. So with that in mind, most would have probably liked to have seen a further enhancement of the series in the form of Overlord III, instead we have to settle for Overlord Fellowship Of Evil and it sadly disappoints on so so many different levels."
Step into the warped fantasy world of Overlord: Fellowship of Evil, the dark and twisted Action RPG filled with the series’ signature black humour. Penned by award-winning original Overlord scriptwriter Rhianna Pratchett, Overlord: Fellowship of Evil delivers an epic new quest featuring four Netherghūls – undead servants of the dark arts, resurrected in the absence of a true Overlord, to bring evil back to a world overrun by the forces of good.
That was unexpected.
Was really getting excited when I heard the rumors of the new one. Never got a chance to play the second game besides the demo, but I wasn't impressed as I was with the first one. Kind of disappointed this is a top down game rather than like the original. Hope the humor is still there and that we eventually get a full fledged Overlord game.
Interesting - but I don't see how this can possibly compete with F2P Fable Legends. Wouldn't you rather be the bad guy and try to kill 4 HUMAN hero's that are trying to plunder your dungeon.
The MP here confuses me. So you team up with 4 other anti-heros to loot AI dungeons?
All I know is the Fable Legends is going to be epic and I need a release date ASAP.
Interesting that they went for a spin-off rather than sequel, but at least they are not calling it Overlord 3 (*cough* Sacred 3 *cough*)
Hard to say anything else than that it sounds interesting, hard to say anything from the footage shown other than it was kinda lacking in comparison to many other dungeon crawlers.