okr said: Just two corrections on some replies: - Halo Wars is not the only good RTS game on consoles (Pikmin 1+2 and Swords & Soldiers are just 3 other examples). - Civilization was never an RTS game on any platform and I bet my Sid Meier shrine it never will be.
RTS games on consoles are best if they are developed for the console. Two of the few exceptions to this rule (which I just invented) seem to be Tom Clancy's Endwar and the two Overlord games, which got decent ratings. ...
First you say the Civilization series is not an RTS, which is absolutely correct and then you say Overlord is an RTS ?
Mobygames and thelegacy are among the better sites on the net when it comes to correctly categorizing games imo. I think "Action, Strategy" is a ggod genre categorization for this game. Of course you can put Overlord in the action adventure genre (like the publisher Codemasters or gamefaqs and many other gaming websites), just like they do with every game nowadays which doesn't fit 100% into one genre, but in my book it's foremost a 3D RTS game. Overlord is a mixture of Pikmin and Dungeon Keeper, which are both RTS games as well.
BTW: The Overlord developer themselves put headlines on their website http://www.climaxgroup.com/ such as: "Overlord Dark Legend - IGN E3 Runner Up Wii Strategy Game" and "IGN names Minions best DS strategy game".
Whatever.
I'm just saying I own both main Overlord games and the strategy part makes up for around 15% of the game IMO.....
I agree, the overall complexity is gimped by the control, pretty much what FPS is right now when you are talking about PC vs consoles, just dumped down more and more. For example, this is my brother and I playing RA3 PC on hard just 3 days back on our first time playing, the amount of cheating the AI does is kinda impossible to beat on a game pad, and uh, excuse the language:
