No game series is in place. If the number of games of any franchise exceeds for the number that allows us to talk about its success, then in the next parts serious changes are quite expected. This is normal, as well as the fact that a complete change in the concept of a series often does not satisfy old fans, but newcomers are to taste. So, Overlord: Fellowship of Evil – A unique bird, the result of an experiment that nobody can like.
It’s not good to be bad
It would seem, what a wonderful idea is based on Overlord – Get to the side of darkness and lead the whole army of minions. It is always pleasant to win back the role of the villain, and this topic is not at all beaten at all. The developers Fellowsip of Evil There was a huge scope for creativity and a rather strong foundation in the form of the two previous parts. And during the introductory storyline you really hope that they managed to use the resource for the maximum available.
A pleasant sunbathing voice, accompanying a rather stylish video, tells the story of the unfortunate minions who do not want to put up with the good and justice that have reigned in the world. Green grass, bright sun and semi -tied, happy peasants – boring! Having decided to bring a pinch of evil and chaos to this world, the minions go in search of a leader who would lead them. And here we are, anticipating how fun the army was to command and make plans to capture the world, we choose one of the four heroes, the lord of darkness and horror ..
The plot video ends, and with it all the best in the game ends. Or almost everything: in some places funny plot scenes and good dialogs written Rihanna Pratchett (Rhianna pratchett), nevertheless will hint at the fact that, probably, in one of the parallel universes Fellowsip of Evil It turned out a good game.
To fall asleep faster, kill the sheep
In essence, the choice of the hero is a pure formality. All characters have a regular attack, a strong attack and a very strong attack. However, only the second one is always enough for the effective stripping of the terrain, and our god of horror is non -rygul, who could possess dozens of “pumped” abilities, in fact, it turns out to be a “single -button” creature. The gameplay itself turns into a monotonous, gray, endlessly repeated procedure. Imagine Diablo without “skills” – how interesting the differences between the heroes would be and how much in this case it would be fun to deal with the monsters?
The situation is aggravated by the fact that in Fellowsip of Evil Enemies do not have combat abilities at all: the “heavy” knights swing the seconds for a second for a second, and the shots of magicians fly to us at the speed of the turtle – only a person without fingers will not have time to avoid attacks. The battles are extremely simple and primitive: call the blue minions treating you, and press the same button. Cleaned the location – go to the next and do the same. A single campaign is terrible in its monotony.
Under the pretext of some stupid task (like “kill all peasant sheep”), we must destroy dozens of emerging people over and over again. Boring? How to. But the developers clearly wanted to cause users even more negative feelings.
Computer intelligence is not just bad – it is completely absent here. Opponents freeze in place without reacting to the player’s actions, constantly scatter in different directions. There is no need to talk about any tactics here. Two huge trolls, which I destroyed for about five minutes (due to a long strip of health), have never tried to strike a hero or minion for all the time!
Escaping in a village
Another “amazing” find of gam designers are episodes in which the main character should run a certain distance for the allotted time. Why and why we must do this – is not explained. It’s one thing when in some beautiful Assassin’s Creed We run away from the destructive building, and another – just running for a minute along monotonous locations. Probably, according to developers, this was supposed to diversify the gameplay.
Because of all these stupid misses, flaws and the complete absence of game-design professionalism, you do not feel at all at all a evil guy. We will be given the apocalypse several times to us in the village, but due to the low intelligence of civilians who scurry back and forth peasants-dimebul and grayness of effects, you feel more likely a shoal child than a source of evil and violence.
All this is «sweetened» the day before yesterday. It is clear that the game budget is small, but to flaunt characters cast at the level Gothic 2, Now it’s just indecent. Residents of local villages will scare you stronger than our minions. When people with a slow step with a pitchfork in their hands are chosen to the king of horror non -Western, you begin to feel like the main character of the “walking dead”. Local sheep found here in almost every location resemble pyramids of sweet cotton wool. And the minions that were forgotten to make facial animations with a frozen smile of the Cheshire cat run on slaughter.
What the authors really succeeded in is in bugs. Here they are for every taste: opponents hanging in the air, moving in the «slush-m» goblin, not opening the passage to the next location ..
Mignon from slums
But how are the minions – the main «chip» Overlord? The developers managed to set up even here. Earlier we could really feel like the whole army of small Gremlins, and only for the sake of this feeling we wanted to play in Overlord. In the new part, the presence of a henchouse is simply not felt. We cannot command our wards, and with their independent behavior they show no more intelligence than opponents. The called creatures do not try to keep their lives at all and, like the wound toys, rush into the fire, run into spikes, run along a fatal grass for them.
The mechanics of recruiting creatures have completely changed. Now our small friends are called up with the help of cubes falling out of special generators. They are four colors, which corresponds to the types of minions: brown are designed for a frontal attack, red-exploding kamikaze, green beat the enemy from behind, and the blue are always ready to heal you. In addition to the latter, everyone is completely useless in battle. They apply very little damage, and independently deal with opponents, as we have already said, it is not difficult.
Salty puzzles are also associated with the minions, designed to diversify the gameplay. Nothing really original and standing craftsmen from Codemasters Not offered. All puzzles are built the same way: there is a closed door, and you need to send one of the servants to click on the button that opens it. Sometimes the task is complicated: for example, spikes block the path, and it is necessary to remove them in a timely manner with the help of a lever.
Initially, we can call on two minions of each type. Subsequently, their number can be increased. We are also allowed to put on the heads of the meel with different hats that do not give absolutely any effect.
In general, the creators did not manage to make a more or less sane system of «pumping». At the end of each battle on the map, four types of resources are scattered (why so many?). You need to hurry – after a couple of seconds, jewelry is blossomed and disappear. Why is this attraction is not clear. We can strengthen the hero for resources, buy new weapons, improve minions and purchase hats. Everything happens quite linearly – there is no unique “customization” at all. It is also annoying that all four points of improvement are at different points of our fortress, so, making “upgrades”, you need to kill for a while to run from one of them to the other. But it was possible to combine all the possibilities in one point ..
The developers, justifying before the fans due to the change of concept, claimed that the new Overlord – This is an experiment. Only now it’s not completely clear what he was put on. If the authors wanted to know what will happen if you create a hundred bugs, and then pour them with a mixture of dull gameplay, yesterday’s graphics and disgusting artificial intelligence, then it was not necessary to involve users in this experiment. We would have prompted them already: it will turn out garbage.
Pros: The introductory video does not cause irritation.
Cons: there are more bugs than content;lack of artificial intelligence and graphics;Gameplay is based on despondency, longing and boredom.
