worth $40, entertaining game
At the beginning of the game, the player starts off only controlling five minions. This army will grow up to 35-40 by the time game ends. There are four types of minions, brown, red, green, and blue. Each of them have unique abilities and help curve the strategy of the player throughout the game. The browns (fighters) are the strongest of all the minions. Reds (archers) throws fire balls and resistant to fire. Greens (assassins) jumps on an enemies back dealing lots of damage, they are immuned to poisons. Blues (healers) are the weakest of the minions, they can resurrect dead minions and the only ones who can go into water without drowning.
The player starts off with a badly damaged tower. From the beginning and throughout mid way of the game the player is set to rebuild his tower. Increased minion population, better magic abilities, more health and mana can be found with objects in the game as the player goes through the storyline. The player can get better armor by finding forges and taking it back to the tower. Gold is collected and used to customize the tower by the players liking.
It is known the game could take up to 15 hours to complete, if the person knew exactly what he is doing and where to go.The gamemay last around 25 hours for some who like to take their time. Overlord is a pretty entertaining game through the entire storyline. The minions adds some humor into the game. Each time they come back with loot they will either say, treasure, for me, for you, for the overlord !!! With all the mean time jumping up and down or running back with a wide open smiling face. You can punish your minions by kicking them, all they do is get back up and stay with their master. The game have very easy to use user interface for players to control their minions. Simply holding down the shift key allows the player to select an item to pick up, to attack and where to go. The minions does have some intelligence, if the player is point at a chests the minions will automaticly run to those chests to break them open. Unfortunately, the minions do have their weak spots. A player will want to get to a switch or chest that is either too far away or isnt a direct line. The minion will run back if the chest is to far or run into the obstacle without going around. Triumph Studio added a nice feature to help your minions. By holding both the left and right mouse buttons a player can direct around the minions around thebarrier to that chest.
The only real quirk with Overlord is the gameplay doesnt feel evil enough. Triumph Studio had to keep to the evil down to avoid it being mature rated. If Overlord was mature rated, it could have been a slightly better game with more interesting gameplay that would really felt evil.
Overlord costs around $40 at most retail stores. With it being $20 cheaper then x360 version with the exact same content and storyline, this is definitely a good buy. People who are looking into this game and have a mid range processor with 1 gig of memory, and 256 mb video memory wouldnt have no problem with lag.