Thoughts on Overdrive

[Corey Balint]

Originally Posted by boiler

Only one objective? I can count four completely different ways to score in Overdrive, as compared to '07 (one and a half), '06 (two and a half) or '05 (three and a half) [I consider climbing a ramp or simply driving your robot to a certain location at the end of the game as halves]. The variation in robot design is far greater than last year's game, and I would argue the drive trains/manipulators used in OD are the most elegant across the board, as compared to past years' designs

Well, I think he meant that there was only one major objective. To get/do something with with the balls. When in 04 you could...get the balls, pass the balls into the HP, then the HP would shoot them into one of the goals, you could play with the movable goal, you could hang, you could play defense...man was that game cool.

I didn't like it for the same reason. Qualifications were very boring, for the most part. Elims got "exciting" but I was never really out of my sit being thrilled by it. 4 out of 10.


To spin on Billfred's favorite list...I wasn't really that high on some of the recent games. Aim High was most exciting in my mind (probably biased but still). I gave that a 9 of 10. Then 07 with a 5 out of 10. Then 05 and 08 with a 4 out of 10.