Overlord
- Amass and breed minions and collect weapons and armor to keep them equipped and fighting for gold
- Steal anything from gold and axes to pitchforks, chef's hat and even dried-out pumpkins -- almost anything can be used
- Use your minions tactically -- they're ready to sacrifice themselves and their lives in servitude to the Overlord. Just don't let them get distracted by alcohol or succubi
- Employ Healers to resurrect fallen minions and prepare them for the next battle
Product Description
Overlord is an Xbox 360 exclusive that takes role-playing and action conventions and flips them on their head. You're exploring the legendary Overlord's Dark Tower when you discover you've inherited the legacy of the evil, long-dead Overlord. As you emerge near-death, you decide to rise as the new Overlord -- and you'll have to decide how evil you're willing to get. Played out with plenty of black humour and dark irony, the game will immerse players in twisted parodies of classic fantasy scenarios and characters.
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Overlord
- Video Game: 0 pages (2007-06-26)
- Platforms: Xbox 360
- Publisher: Codemasters
- Label: Codemasters
- Studio: Codemasters
- Our Recommended Age: 12 - 20 years
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 49 reviews
- Sales Rank in Video Games: #1202
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Summary: Unique and Amazing 2008-11-01
Comment: My problem with the Xbox 360 is that it is difficult to find games that are not either First Person Shooters or 3rd person world domination shooters.
Enter Overlord, a completely unique game that immerses you in a creatively stunning land. While the goal is domination, the game play is quirky, fun, and you feel like you are exploring different worlds and are on a new adventure.
The game play, while it involves killing, seems to involve more strategy and rewards thoughtfulness over triggerpulling and destroying things.
A truly unique and fun adventure.
The one and only problem - don't save immediately after finishing the brewery.
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Summary: underated, great game 2008-09-17
Comment: Most of the negative things the reviews had to say have been fixed with a patch, this game is great, like Pikmin with better graphics, story is actually funny and not tacked on, and I usually don't like Codemasters games. Great buy, especially at this price.
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Summary: Overlord? Overlard is more like it... 2008-09-15
Comment: I really liked this game. Overall it was very entertaining and well worth $20. There were some funny parts but some of the repetitive sayings could get annoying. The peasants would say the same thing every time you walked past them and the first time I was very tempted to go evil and kill them to make them be quiet.
The main thing that bothered me was the lack of some type of map or even something telling me what direction I was walking. A few times a peasant would tell me something was going on to the east and I had no idea which way that was. It would also be nice to have a map that told the location of minions that were taking an object to one of the way points. They didn't always go to the closest one and when they didn't come back after a few minutes I would have to go find them. I also ended up wandering in circles several times and had to take the way point back to the tower so I could figure out where I was (assuming I could find a way point).
There were some glitches with the camera that always seemed to show up when I was fighting a large group of enemies. While attacking zombies I sent my guys out in several directions and my camera angle was swinging everywhere rather than following in the direction that the overlord was pointed. The camera also decided part way through the game to go to a bird's eye view and it took me a lot of fidgeting with the controls to get it back to where it was originally. I even resorted to reading the directions and it didn't cover how to reset it.
It would have been nice to have more upgrades available early on. I bought stuff for my tower after getting Rose and then had nothing to spend my money on for most of the game. I also didn't get the different smelters until pretty late and wasn't really excited about forging new things since I had been doing fine with the upgraded steel for so long.
I did think it was neat how there is small variation depending on if you go good/evil or evil/evil. You get different spells at the more advanced levels although I wish there had been more variation on the quests depending on which way you went.
I downloaded the expansion for xbox live and that added some entertainment as well although I still got lost in the new areas...
I highly recommend this game especially since it is now <$20. I am looking forward to Overlord II in 2009 and also think it is cool how they are making a different one for Wii than the other systems so I will definitely be getting both.
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Summary: dark but goofy 2008-09-08
Comment: I bought it for my son, who had rented it several times. He enjoys it quite a bit. I don't buy very many games for him because he finishes them pretty quick most of the time. Rentals are the way to go most of the time. He enjoys it more than most. That speaks well of it for the most part. Online play is underwhelming, but works ok.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Glitchlord 2008-06-08
Comment: I think this game has alot of potential,and if it wasn't for all the glitches,I'd give this game a 5.
Three hours into the game,the camera angle becomes stuck to a bird's eye point of view and will not allow me to change it back.I can push the L button and use the thumbstick to move the camera back,but as soon as I let go,the camera swoops back up in the sky making the game awkward and ultimatly unplayable.
The game WILL NOT allow me to give the food back to the peasents.My minions will walk right up to the edge of where they are supposed to set the food and then stop.Thus,I HAVE to choose the evil option otherwise I can't continue on with the game.
Many times my minions become lost or stuck on objects;other times they just seem to disappear for no reason.
There are also other glitches I have read about online,most notably the game crashing bug of the dwarven brewery and teleporting rather than taking the elevator up.Supposedly this results in forever losing the spoke to the wheel and not being able to continue.
There is another glitch with Velvet if you power up your tower at a certain time...
This would be a perfect game if it weren't for all the glitches and bugs.
Shame on the developers for not taking the proper time to test their product before releasing it to the masses.
As much as I would like to play through this game and see the ending,the countless mistakes in this game prevent me from doing so...
All hail the Glitchlord.
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