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Domination, Destruction, and Poor Design Decisions
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/22/2013
“Overlord 2” is the most recent entry in the ‘Overlord’ franchise of “Pikmin” clones, a subgenre for which I have been advocating the name ‘Personal Mob Strategy’ (or PMS – yeah, deal with it!). After the first game launched as an Xbox 360 exclusive before being ported EVERYWHERE, the second game launched as a Wii-exclusive spinoff, and the third game as a DS-exclusive spinoff, this fourth entry in the franchise decided to forego exclusivity of any sort and launch as a multi-platform game for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Steam from the outset. While the original “Overlord” was a great game marred mainly by presentational flaws, my experience with “Overlord: Dark Legend” revealed that CodeMasters, the developer behind this series, has been slipping on the quality …
