[INDENT] Entertaining and well executed adventure game.
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[INDENT] I personally have always hated movies where it looks like everything is going to crud, but at the last minute order is restored (…and they live happily ever after). In the same sense, I’ve always found it irritating when games force you to do the “right thing”. And even in games where you are supposedly the “bad guy”, there are seldom any means to BE the bad guy. I enjoyed fable because it gave you the option to be just… evil.
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[INDENT] When I saw Overlord getting announced I immediately knew I had to buy it. The though of being a nasty demon-lord controlling hordes of evil minions was way too tasty to pass up on. Now, I’m both happy and not happy with Overlord.
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[INDENT] It’s an adventure game, basically. You have a bunch of quests, starting out with restoring your former glory and acquiring new, cooler, minions. Later on the storyline takes over and well… puts you on your path to glory. The controls are slightly awkward at first, mainly because you constantly have to have a button pressed when you are walking around. You get used to it fairly fast though. The way you control your minions is somewhat intuitive. You can either “roam” them with one of the analogs or just send them to wreck havoc with the LT.
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[INDENT] As for evilness, sure, its there. You are constantly faced with choices to do good or bad. Each has its rewards, although in general the evil choices tend to reward less (as always, but its so much more fun!). You can choose to slaughter entire villages of peasants, or you can choose to be their cute little village-god and get praised and gifts.
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[INDENT] Your minions get more and more equipped as they go along, making it painful to lose them to monsters and such. Basically you get attached to your cool little dudes, which is a good thing. In your quest to become the ultimate bad*****, you start off with a small number of minions but as you grow in power so do your minions. You also have an array of spells to help you out, as well as a mighty Sauron style mace (… and btw, you look exactly like Sauron, and the first village you encounter is called “spree”. Hmmmm) to help you slay who ever stands in your way of becoming Satan.
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[INDENT] You can have up to 4 types of minions, all behaving very differently. The way you can control multiple types at the same time you are whacking away people with your mace’o’doom is actually quite well executed.
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[INDENT] Graphic wise, it’s great. Looks good, very few graphical mishaps like minions walking through floors or whatever. Actually only happened to me once. Very few to no bugs although it’s probably a good idea to install the update if you have access to xbox live.
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[INDENT] You can kill elves, peasants, sheep, cats, dogs and burn villages. And the minions are pretty fun when they kill each other over loot.
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[INDENT] Awkward controls, story line is slightly lame.
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Final grade: 8/10
