Gaming Age Review: Overlord: Raising Hell (PS3)

Dustin Chadwell reports:

”Overlord: Raising Hell is a remarkable title simply because it attempts to blend both a strategy style game with a simple hack and slash action title, and does a pretty good job at both all the while spoofing the typical fantasy genre stereotypes found in both genres. Unfortunately, the game doesn’t do the best job explaining how to use both styles together as well as it should, and it’s not going to be the most beautiful game you’ve ever seen, but overall the experience is pretty fresh and entertaining.

The original Overlord title released on the Xbox 360 a little while ago, along with an expansion pack (also Raising Hell, so the PS3 title is the actual full package) and was definitely a solid experience. However, the lack of any type of map system hampered questing around the goofy fantasy realm for some players, and thankfully that’s been somewhat improved upon with the new mini map interface available in Raising Hell. I would still have liked to have seen a full world map as well, but if you buy the game you’ll at least get a fold out map included with it.”