The first game was amazing and worthy of a thumbs up. This one is your average 3rd person fighter, akin to how everyone thinks of smash bros because the fighter game is a sidescroller with fall hazards and verticality. The previous one had Pacific Rim style combat, if you had 3 friends willing to play with you. It's actually a crime that the first game is unpurchaseable.

If you want the TLDR, just start a movement to bring the first game back to the store.

If you want to buy this game, ask yourself if you own more than 3 fighting games that you play regularly and then ask yourself how many fighting games that you've owned in the past that you've returned to.

Note: Dead PvP game

This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.

Override 2 is a dead Nintendo Switch third person brawler/PvP arena combat game. There's no single player or story mode, just PvP, and there's no players. It was a basic "hero PvP" game where you unlock various hero characters with their special abilities and combat styles and brawl other players.

I think a couple of points to mention... despite being a pure PvP game the developer behaved in a remarkably ethical way and restrained from infesting this with loot boxes, MTX, all that nasty stuff. I think that deserves recognition and respect to the developers for doing the right thing and making a game you can just buy and play and that's it.

This isn't even the worst Nintendo Switch game I've seen on Steam, not by a long shot. I'll go so far as to say the questionable decision to publish yet another contentless PvP game into a vast ocean of competitors was the sole reason this failed. If this had a single player campaign and story, it probably would have made millions. But, it doesn't, so, it didn't.

It's a dead PvP game, and it's time for us to have a post-mortem to see some of the reasons this failed.

The vast majority of PvP focused games on Steam are failures. Most fail because developers assume just because the game project code completes a successful build, the game will instantly and magically "go viral" just for existing. There's nothing in this to appeal to gamers that hundreds of other PvP games are already doing better.

PvP games face extreme competition, PvP gamers have plenty to choose from and they gravitate to where all the other players are. This game didn't offer anything to peel those PvPers away from the PvP games they're already invested in. It had no upfront cost, but gamers still rejected it.

There is no real single player content in this game. The developer thought other players could replace actual storytelling and level design. That was a bad bet to make, and yeah, the developer lost. Hard. Without a player base or meaningful solo content (storytelling, narrative, you know, what makes games like GTA famous), the game has nothing to offer. Other players are not a substitute for doing the job of a developer and creating meaningful game content.

On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers.

Because this is designed for handheld/portable gaming appliances, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the low power handheld gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept

Override 2 é um jogo sem nenhuma profundidade. Tudo o que tornava o primeiro único - como poder controlar membros individualmente dos mechas, inclusive com possibilidade de um segundo jogador controlar parte do seu robô no modo coop - foi retirado. Nem mesmo história de verdade existe nesse jogo, visto que seu personagem apenas pega contratos para ir subindo de nível nas ligas e ganhando dinheiro para destravar novos Mechas (não há uma história maior, envolvente e que estabeleça um risco a ser resolvido pelo protagonista).
O game acaba sendo genérico, o que é uma pena. Ademais, o jogo parece ter sido abandonado pelos desenvolvedores; e os achievements (as conquistas) sequer são destravados: tenho 3 horas de jogo e realizei atos o suficiente para destravar várias conquistas, mas nenhuma jamais destravou.
Override 1 tinha suas falhas (como não haver um modo New Game+ e nem salvar os upgrades feitos no seu Mecha durante a campanha), mas possuía algo que o 2 não tem: alma.