10 Worst RPG Video Games Of All Time
5. Overlord: Fellowship Of Evil
In 2007, Codemasters released Overlord and, whilst it didn’t set the world on fire, it was a warmly received comedy-fantasy romp. Players assumed the role of an evil warrior, growing and commanding their multi-talented minion army like the twisted version of Pikmin. So the case is with success, further entries in the fledgling IP were commissioned.
A sequel and two spin-offs all came in 2009 to surprisingly decent review scores before all went quiet on the Overlord front until 2015.
Overlord: Fellowship of Evil was, instead of the next-gen follow-up, yet another spin-off for the franchise and it brought drastic changes came to the existing formula: taking the series to a top-down perspective and turning the variety of options down to near-zero. Fellowship of Evil is the most boring Diablo clone you can imagine in both it’s dull gameplay and its brown and red “visual design”.
All of the fun of the minions from the previous instalments is now reduced to unnecessary fluff since Fellowship of Evil requires no more than mashing the attack button for seven hours. You pretty much never even need to grab loot and upgrade your character as the challenge is already hysterically low.
Writer Rihanna Pratchett claimed the game is “its own entity and doesn’t stop Overlord 3 from existing” but considering the franchise has laid completely dormant for the last seven years we may be inclined to disagree.