Hello all, Sorry for not being around at all the last few days. I'm up to my eyeballs in wedding preparations and playing Overlord. I'm going to try and spend some quality time putting together a decent blog post this week. In the meantime, I thought I'd give a quick hit to anyone who is interested in the PC and 360 game Overlord who hasn't gotten it yet. I've played through the game twice now (I get a bit obsessed when I find a new game that does something well...like Overlord with its minions) and I have some good and bad points to offer. A full review will be posted in the next couple of days. Good Points: 1. Your minions are hilarious, effective, and versatile. 2. The voice acting, particularly your minion master Gnarl, is excellent. 3. The game is visually stunning, one of the better offerings in recent memory 4. The game dialogue is funny as well 5. Some of the side quests that I have discovered to date are a lot of fun. (I gathered up 10 serving wenches to hang around my throne half-naked.) Bad Points: 1. No mini-map or compass in a game that makes it very hard to find your way around in some areas 2. The camera is bad.
3. The game doesn't live up to its premise of being either evil or really evil - It is either be "Good" or "Kinda evil". I've been stuck for hours trying to raise my corruption level above 80%. (Anyone have any ideas? I posted in the 360 forum with what I've done so far.) Here's the thing: In a game whose main selling point is to let you be very evil, it should be harder to be good than it is to be evil. It is WAY opposite of that. Very few opportunities to raise corruption and lots of ways to lower it. Ugh.
4. Very few moral choices in the game as long as it is. (Easily 30 hours...though several of those are being lost in Evernight Forest due to no mini-map, compass and a bad camera.)