Overlord: Raising Hell Comments by Kristan Reed

As good as Metal Gear Solid 4 then?

>As good as Metal Gear Solid 4 then?

Actually yes... it is a fun game.

This is a great game that everyone should buy.

Loved every minute.

As good as Manic Miner then.

"Still, for once, PS3 owners end up with the best version."

Isn't that "for twice" - Burnout Paradise was better on the PS3 too wasn't it? Anyway, I reckon I'll give this version a go when the price drops to under £25 rather than getting the 360 version plus update.

I think our man Rich Leadbetter actually preferred the 360's cleaner look on Burnout Paradise. Horses for courses, really. I thought they were extremely close.

Get the 360 version without the update, as while it's very good, by the time you reach the end you will have had enough of it and not to want to play the DLC anyway, at least I did.

Try this one I shall...

Yay getting this next week, cant wait! Played it some on the PC and its great!

very promising review... i may have a go.

"Beyond good and evil"

That kind of says it all doesn't it. Lovely little action-adventure-puzzle type game overlooked by the hordes who rather quibble about whether or not Killzone 2 will be better than Gears 2.

This certainly looks interesting, and the demo was enjoyable.

But with MGS4 and Civ: Revolution to play it will have to wait a while.

I had this on the 360 and it was great fun for the first few hours or so but then it started to get tediously repetitive.

Last year's Game of the Year for me. I absolutely loved it.

I played the demo a while back and it seemed incredibly similar to Pikmin, almost like they'd just swapped the 3D models.

Does it diverge enough from Pikmin later on?

Drinking beer doesn't make me hard. Am I drinking the wrong beer?

Exactly what I was thinking. Pissing on the street? Check. Being hard? What??

Never got around to buying this on 360, so reckon that when I get a PS3 come LBP-time, this will also have dropped in price.

Meaning I still get it cheap AND get the best version! :-)

Side note: this is how it should be. I mean, the prevailing sense with the original Xbox was "Yeah, I might get it much later than you PS2-owning bods, but at least I get the best version" and it should be like that for the PS3. Mayhaps this marks the beginning of the turn-around?

/deludes self.

"I think our man Rich Leadbetter actually preferred the 360's cleaner look on Burnout Paradise"
+ Live and very good achievements
= 360 version wins again.

Of course Overlord is a bit better on the PS3 a year afterthe 360 release. The same thing can be said about VF5 on the 360 and soon UT3 im sure.

Who knows maybe even MGS4.

I enjoyed the demo, glad to see the full game is good. I'll definitely pick this up at some point during the summer.

"Isn't that "for twice" - Burnout Paradise was better on the PS3 too wasn't it? Anyway, I reckon I'll give this version a go when the price drops to under £25 rather than getting the 360 version plus update. "

well no GTA 4 was as well on every other site other than on this site "xboxgamer.net" it was

A question for people with the 360 version plus expansion - do you really get no minimap at all, even now? And are the reported auto-lock improvements only in the PS3 version too?

If that's the case, I'd rather have the better version on PS3 and forget the gamerwhore points.

I found the framerate a wee bit worst in the PS3 Overlord demo I played a month or two back (I own the Xbox 360 version by the way), otherwise the PS3 version was actually quite impressive for a change. Of course, the final game might have had the framerate optimised so it's not conclusive.

"Of course Overlord is a bit better on the PS3 a year afterthe 360 release"
Well, the ps3 launched a year behind so to be fair the versions _should_ be equally good/bad?

"Well, the ps3 launched a year behind so to be fair the versions _should_ be equally good/bad?"

I really don't understand that logic.

>As good as Metal Gear Solid 4 then?

Yep. And better than Ninja Gaiden 2.

I think what he means is that the PS3 launched a year after the 360 so any game that is released a year after the 360 version, as with Overlord, should be comparably good or bad (depending on the quality of the original game). Lets face it if a game is bad on the 360, it's rarely better when it surfaces on the PS3 as Blacksite Area 51 proved.

rather play mgs4 thanks

hmmmm....C&VG gave it 6/10

"I really don't understand that logic."

Thats because it isnt - logical.

@CannonAnBall - OXM gave Overlord 6/10 too as did a few other sites/magazines. Doesn't mean they're "right", of course, just they don't share EG's opinion.

not having a mini map really pisses me off all the time.
i hardly play the game anymore.... still have to finish it.

having a map will help alot! so ps3 owners.. NJoy

"One of the best games on the PS3"

Piss and off.

It was good on 360, but EG hasn't seemed to realise the size of catalogue PS3 has now. It wasn't even one of the best on 360 back then.

Not getting it again as I completed it on 360, especially at full price.

"Overlord: Raising Hell is probably one of the best games currently available on PS3

8/10"

That made me chuckle ;-)

Great game, very fun and very replayable too. If you want to play only once, choose the evil path, though, it's definitely more interesting. A bit surprised so many people were upset about the absence of minimap on 360, though.

This review says more about the PS3 than the game.

I'm surprised to see this getting it's own dedicated review rather than a cursory paragraph in an upcoming EG PS3 Vs. 360 article.

The games seems highly derivative of Pikmin in many respects which isn't too bad a thing I guess.

"Switching between them is mapped intuitively on the pad, with a tap of the right bumper"

I never knew that PS3 has a right bumper.

It seems this is a better game than the one I played on the PC. Maybe I'll get this one.

Got the 360 version for a song. Now going to get the PS3 version for a slap round the head and a kick in the nuts but, the fixes it has seem worth it and I can always hide my cricket box down the pants before asking for it at Game.

Looks ok, but small fry compared to whats available at the moment.

I was waiting for the "Unfortunately for PS3 owners..." paragraph but happily it never appeared:-)

spongebob - "Drinking beer doesn't make me hard. Am I drinking the wrong beer?"

Yeah, try Stella. It might not actually make you hard, but it sure makes you think you are.

This game is a good one but nowhere as good as MGS4.This just show how biased EG was against MGS4.

The PS3 has right now a excellent catalogue(excepting RPG ,its achilles heel),this game is a good addittion but no way one of the best.Before this one we have DMC4 ,Burnout Paradise ,MGS4 ,Unreal III ,Call of Duty 4,Singstar,Uncharted,Ratchet and Clank,Everybodys Golf ,GTAIV,Race Driver GRID ,Grant Turismo 5 Prologue ,Colin Mc Rae DIRT,Resistence and lots of others.

@Diomedes

I think the PS3 is going to suffer from the same stigma the PSP does: lots of quality games coming out after a very slow start, but people will keep forever saying "It doesn't have any good games" regardless of the facts.

Is it such a bad deal, really? None of it stops me from buying the games I like.

Are folk still going on about MGS4's EG review? That's awesome, in a sad kind of way.
Anyway had this on the 360 for a while, but like some others have said, it got a lil tiresome and repetitive after a few hours. By no means a bad game, but it wasn't an 8 for me.

I think trying to compare an 8 from MGS and an 8 from Overlord is alittle silly. There are many genres and game types for each platform. I wouldnt try to compare a game like Stronghold with GTA, but strangely enough i would rate both highly. Does that mean that GTA is not as good as stronghold, well of course not in that way, but GTA isnt stronghold.

Not sure if that makes anysense, but the scores out of 10 IMHO arnt supposed to be placed comparing product against product... its more about is the game fun, is it unique in its genre, does it do well for this type of game.

Overlord on the PC is alot of fun, it reminds me of games like Dungeon Master that people dont make so many of these days, its got something about it.... so would it be worth an 8 - for me... Raising Hell Yes :) So lets not get into the stupid comparisons of my favourite product only got 8 and this got 8... as thats not how it works!

PS Also im finding it funny that people are still saying there are no good games for the PS3.. there are lots, I own about 11 so far.. and thats seriously enough to keep anyone busy for a while.