Overlord is a beautiful and unusual 3d person game with some RPG elements that shouldnt pass unnoticed.
lord and burried him under his tower. But the minions loved him very much and dug him out so there you are, ready to rebuild your tower and spread evil again all across the land.
The game has two main diffrences compared to other 3D person games. First of all its that you actually get the part of playing the bad guy (even though you'll find out that the good guys are not as good as they look). Playing the evil guy is an idea not very popular, at least not in a fantasy game. Even in fable, you can be either the good guy or the bad guy, but not in overlord. Here you are to be bad all the way. This game is full of some kind of english humour witch in many cases i find hilarious, especially from the imps. You'll have to play to see it for yourself
The second main diffrence is the combat system. Yes you do have an axe or a sword (there are weapons like axe, sword, mace) but its actually your imps that do all the dirty work. Yes, werever you go, you are followed by a bunch of small skinny creatures (that look pretty much like gremlins)that walk right behind you in a pyramid formation and they are ready to destroy anything for you as long as you give the command. You start with just a few imps at your command but their number grows stronger as the game continues. You will be able to fight against hobbits, elfs, humans and dwarfs, get into their houses, break everything and make people scare of you.
You can also upgrade your self with better weapons or even upgrade the weapons that you already have, by using the smelters you find in the game .
You can make a new body armor as well and increase your health or your mana because an overlord is nothing if he cannot use some magic is he? Also you will be able to upgrade your tower and make it more beautiful, by putting carpets, upgrade your throne put some spikes outside. I never understood why you do this but it looks cool.
The graphics of this game are nice. Not a masterpiece but they are fairly nice. The overlord is a game of colors and you dont have to see many screenshots to understand this. The graphic optimisation gives a lot of choices so you can play this game on a high tech computer or in an old computer (like a p4 2.4 lets say) but the graphic loss will be obvious.
the game play is very easy and it wont be a trouble. you walk with the keyboard and the command of imp attack is just a click on the mouse.
There are some minor disadvantages regarding this game. One of those is that the types of imps are few in number (only 4?) and there are only imps at your disposal. I mean ok, imps are fine, but why not undeads too? or ghosts? or dragons? I mean the game is nice but it had potential to be much better.
In conclusion i pelieve that Overlord is a very nice game. Anynone who wants to play something diffrent and be the bad guy for a little, will like this game. However never forget that this game is a 3D person and not a dungeon keeper style geme (the only one i recall that gives you the opportunity of beeing the bad guy)