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overlord

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Interesting new concept in gaming, mixes a little 3rd person action with strategy and problem solving plus the storyline and setting was great along with the comic relief.

A fun, addictive way to be evil

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Being evil is just plain fun, especially in this wacky take on the fantasy genre. The core of the game is in its minion system. Rather than doing much work yourself (you are the Overlord, after all) you puppet four different types of minions to banish enemies and advance through environments. This innovative mechanism makes combat fun, and since each minion type has its own advantages you'll constantly find new strategies. For example, you might place several green minions, which can stealth and backstab, then use your brown, warrior minions to lure an enemy forward, all the while using your ranged red minions to attack from a nearby ledge.
Overlord is lighthearted and funny, which really helps make the game a joy to play. The graphics are great, but considering you can have 50 minions at once you may want to turn them down a notch or two if you don't have the highest settings.
Overlord isn't perfect. Sometimes advancement can be obscure and you might not be sure where to go or what to do. Other than this, puzzles are extremely simple, which can be off-putting, though bosses and tougher battles require more thinking. Though the various teleport sites help reduce travel, you'll find yourself backtracking through previous lands to catch the things you miss, which can also be boring. I have no idea how the game plays on X-Box since I bought it for PC, but the controls are easy to get the hang of. Sometimes, however, your minions go where you don't want them to or do hang around somewhere you didn't intend them to, but for the most part your minions will do what you want. I do wish they would be more pro-active when upgrading equipment.
There's a lot more to say about this game, and if there's one thing that impressed me it was Overlord's attention to detail. The game feels very polished and refined. Overall, the game is well worth the money.

Definitely a console game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was definitely designed with the Xbox 360 in mind. I've played it on both the 360 and my pc and the 360 had a much more intuitive control scheme, but still a fun game. 7/10 stars.

Overlord is Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The funniest game I had ever play, great action, great graphics, great story line, buy it you will have lots of fun, Did I mention that the minions are the best!!!

Maybe not for everyone but I love it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overlord is like an evil, twisted ripoff clone of Pikmin(for the Gamecube). It places a huge importance on violence, looting, and general wrong doings. The horribly evil, yet loyal minions you control have many adorable characteristics that make them pretty cute at times with little phrases like, "For the master!" and, "That's mine. Hehe!" If you're interested, there is a demo version out there. I played the demo and loved it so of course I was happy with this purchase. It did not disappoint. I didn't have any software issues when playing this game. However, if you're planning on playing with the graphics settings maxed out, I would recommend a decent graphics card.

Evil has never been so much fun.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great spoof off of any fantasy game/movie. The first level puts you right into a nice mid evil village that is rustic and beautiful and you send your minions to pillage and plunder it, it's very funny in that respect. It also has a lot of fun game play and a few types of minions so you can really strategize your method of combat. The levels are always changing so you never get sick of looking at the same scene over and over again. If you play it make sure though you buy all of the expansion packs with it because they play into the storyline and don't add onto the end of the story. But raising hell also added in a lot more game play in my own opinion. This game is definantly worth picking up.

OK game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun, but it's a bit buggy. As well, the control is a bit hard to manage and it's easy to get lost as to what exactly you are supposed to be doing. It's an interesting twist on your normal RTS/RPG genres, but I don't feel like they really pulled it off too well. The minions are kind of weak, and the game plays in such a way that makes you think you might be able to just gear up your minions and attack, but then you send them all in and they get owned. It's like they couldn't decide whether to make it a funny/relaxing game with simple game play, or an intense strategy game with more complicated game play. What they ended up with was a very simple game that somehow requires rather careful planning for even the simplest tasks--which probably explains the lower price. As far as being a fun game, it's probably worth a price sub-$20, but don't think you are getting a steal.

Enternaining

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Puzzle like @ entertaining. Generally I hate puzzles @ mazes but I accept this. The goofy nature lends to good fun. After one figures out one isn't evil (kinda confusing at first) but a power grabber, one get on with it. Way cool to send minions to fight/pillage/get stuff (main play). Goofy @ Fun! Recomended.

A total disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Bad voice acting. Juvenile humor. Boring storyline. Annoying control scheme. Get the picture? Even at the rock bottom discount price it's a total waste of time and money.

I was looking forward to playing this, it sounded like an updated version of Dungeon Keeper (it's not). Instead you've got this avatar, a big clunky knight in armor, some kind of gnome-like adviser who never stops talking and some minions who never stop chattering like a bunch of monkeys with a football.........you go out on "missions" to recover artifacts but you can only get things done by using the minions to do your bidding. But you're restricted to using controls which don't work or are physically impossible, try this one: Hold down both mouse buttons, move the mouse to guide your minions through a path AND simultaneously click the center mouse button to indicate your target............I'm guessing that this might work somehow with a console but try doing it with a mouse.........and if you release any buttons or stop moving the minions immediately go out of control...........or objectives that require ten minions to move but you've only got six.........and they never stop chattering and the gnome-like guy just keeps repeating himself........after ten minutes it's no longer funny and after twenty minutes it's painful. Send me the postage and you can have this one for free.

Something I would not buy Again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: August 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overlord for all the hype and ballyhoo just doesn't get it with me. The interface controls are all wrong to what I'm used to and the game seems more suited to be a video game than a computer game. I always use the right mouse button to move the player forward and go right and left by moving the mouse right and left. Even in games that have keyboard commands for movement instead of the mouse, you can alter these to use the mouse, or at least some of them. The game itself might be all right if there was wider use of the mouse in what I've mentioned above. Unfortunately there isn't and you can't switch movement commands to the mouse. I'm sorry, to down the game but, I gave up joy sticks and keypads a long time ago when I moved up to real computers, and have no desire to use them with computer games again. They're fine with game machines but they don't make the grade with me when it comes to computers. I'll probably sell the game since I have no intention of playing it and regret I ever purchased it to begin with.

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