Not very often is a game as unique as Overlord released, which lets you control up to 50 minions at once to carry out your evil deeds. Although it starts off slow, Overlord quickly picks up the pace for a more thoroughly entertaining experience. The game's multiplayer is almost an exact clone of the single player, which is not a bad thing. The two versus game types, pillage and slaughter, are quite fun in themselves. Slaughter pits you against one other player to rack up the most points by killing enemies and even the other player. Pillage tasks you with attempting to collect the most gold, which is scattered around the map. In the matches I have played, people have frequently quit out because they were losing, which caused the matches to end for me also. If this issue were to be addressed with say giving a win to the player who does not quit or penalizing the quitting player, the multiplayer experience would be a much more fulfilling one. On the single palyer side of the game, you travel around different areas essentially killing off "pesky heroes" and recovering lost tower artifacts. These tower artifacts come in several different flavors. Your mana, health, and minion count are all upgraded for collecting these artifacts. During your travels, you also have the oppurtunity to obtain a mistress, which adds a entertaining cut scenelater in the game. All in all, Overlord provides very unique gameplay which will entertain you for a long while.
Overlord is one of those things that flys under everyones radar and will become one of two things.. either a cult classic, or widely popular and praised. Unfortunately, I see it being a cult classic due to lack of advert... Read Full Review
Have you ever dreamed of being an evil ruler with an army of underlings to do your bidding? For most of us, Overlord is as close as we can get to fulfill those twisted fantasies, and it generally does a pretty good job. ... Read Full Review
