Overall, the first game was moderately well-received, with reviewers overlooking gameplay flaws because of a compelling story.

Overall, the game received positive reviews from gaming websites ; reviewers generally praised the gameplay, though some criticized the graphics.

Overall gameplay works like many other typical old-school first-person shooters in that the player must kill everything that moves in his path while searching for an exit that would lead to the next level.

Overall, the gameplay is similar to previous 8-bit Sonic games, albeit players can now play as either Sonic or Tails.

Overall, reviewers acknowledge that the game has the same solid gameplay and replay value that was present in Fire Emblem, despite the lack of originality.

* Overall gameplay speed was increased.

Barrett, The Honors College is ranked 1st in the nation among peer institutions ( 1300-1400 minimum SAT ) and 5th in Overall Excellence among all universities.

Overall, his size and behavior make him seem older than Paul, yet he is the same age as Paul and his school-friends ( roughly 19 at the start of the book ).

Overall, more than two million tourists visited Crete last year, and this increase in tourism is reflected on the number of hotel beds, rising by 53 % in the period between 1986 and 1991, when the rest of Greece saw increases of only 25 %.

Overall the military is poorly trained and equipped.

Overall, the quality of life indices for Estonia are reflective of a modern industrial state, with one major exception: The population of Estonia is shrinking.

Overall, the support is based on a handful of studies reviewed by Barry Sterman.

Overall, the system is designed to encourage role-playing over strict adherence to an arbitrary set of rules.

Overall, the Honduran manufacturing sector has mimicked other sectors of the economy — it is mostly noncompetitive, even in a regional context, because of insufficient credit and the high cost of inputs.

Overall, an estimated 70 % of the nation's water supply network is in need of repair or replacement.

Overall the western market may be considered mature with a flat to declining overall volumes while there is strong growth in the emerging economies.

Overall, however, the Earth was hotter than it is today.

Overall, Weber supported the goal of objective science, but he noted that it is an unreachable goal – although one definitely worth striving for.

Overall the catchment area is one seventh of Australia's total land mass.

Overall, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ( Al-Waleed's father ) is said to have transformed 10 churches in Damascus into mosques.

Overall, however, it rarely causes side effects, and is considered generally safe as a food additive, and as a component in cosmetics and medication.

Overall, the wild life of the Persian Gulf is endangered from both global factors, and regional, local negligence.

Overall readership of most newspapers is slowly declining due to increasing competition from television and the Internet.

Overall, Hoveden is chiefly concerned with the politics of the relationship between Richard and King Philip.

Overall, it is often thought that capon meat is more tender, juicy, and flavorful than regular chicken.

Overall population density is about 118. 3 / km² ( 306. 5 per sq.

Overall majorities are unusual in the Additional Member system that is used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, which was specially designed by the Labour UK government in 1999 to prevent any party gaining overall control of the parliament.

Overall, happiness for Plotinus is "... a flight from this world's ways and things.

He is a four-time Overall World Champion for 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and winner of three Olympic gold medals.

Overall, Yellow succeeded beyond what most people had expected, despite the fact that the Allies had 4, 000 armoured vehicles and the Germans 2, 200, and the Allied tanks were often superior in armour and caliber of cannon.

Overall it was very difficult to configure upgrades to produce the results advertised on the packaging, and upgrades were often less than 100 % stable and / or less than 100 % compatible.

The official term for Abitur in Germany is Zeugnis der allgemeinen Hochschulreife ( often translated as General Qualification for University Entrance or Certificate for Overall Maturity for Higher Education ).

Overall fuel efficiency may vary per device, which in turn may vary per application, and this spectrum of variance is often illustrated as a continuous energy profile.

Overall, this species is blocky and broad in shape, often appearing ( and being ) heavier than other Buteos of similar length.

Overall responsibility often lies with the highest court in a state ( such as state supreme court ).

Overall density is often lowered by " leapfrog development ".

Overall, this means that networks are often structured to have many BSCs distributed into regions near their BTSs which are then connected to large centralised MSC sites.

Overall, the evidence suggests the use of deferred compensation ( e. g., Freeman and Medoff 1984, and Spilerman 1986 – seniority provisions are often included in pay, promotion and retention decisions, irrespective of productivity.

Overall, the students actually did come out on top more often than not, although when a teacher won an episode, it was normally by a much wider margin.

Overall, the Skeletor in this series is portrayed as a far more competent and threatening character, despite his often comedic lines.

Overall, more than 10 committees in the Congress were responsible for Indian affairs, a situation which resulted in a sometimes disjointed treatment of Indian affairs and in an often haphazard development of Federal Indian policy.

Overall support and supervision of the conferencing services is handled by several staff members, often referred to collectively as confteam, the name of the UNIX user account used by staff for conference maintenance.

Overall, despite the often surreal nature of the strip, Irritability gives the impression of having a consistent setting, which sets it apart from many strips that rely upon the strange-meets-mundane comedy formula.

Overall, there is a relatively high level of resistance to inter-faith marriage in Judaism and this often constitutes a form of self-segregation-preventing Jewish communities from integrating and merging with surrounding populations around the world.

Overall, Zimmer has often noted that every paycheck he'd ever gotten came from baseball, and has never held a job in any other profession.

Overall, the Rainbow Lorikeet remains widespread and often common.

Overall, pregnancy is accompanied by numerous customs that are often subject to ethnological research, often rooted in traditional medicine or religion.

Overall this way of life, often viewed as being " hard " by outsiders, is what makes the residents in the area enjoy a slightly higher standard of living than other communities, as the food expenditure is less here than in other towns and villages.

Overall, black ( 49 %) and American Indian ( 48 %) victims reported most often, significantly higher than whites ( 42 %) and Asians ( 40 %).

It has often been ( mistakenly ) suggested that Amy Turtle was the inspiration for Victoria Wood's parody of Crossroads Acorn Antiques ; Wood has denied this, and Julie Walters ( the actress who portrayed Mrs Overall ) more than suggested with her performance and appearance that Mrs Overall was in fact based on Crossroads character Mavis Hooper played by Charmian Eyre.