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(64 customer reviews) 69 of 72 people found the following review helpful
It's Good to Be the Overlord,
September 19, 2007 = Fun: This review is from: Overlord (Video Game)
I didn't start out planning to be an evil overlord.
When I found out that Overlord was a cross between Dungeon Keeper (where you get to play the bad guy in a fantasy world) and Pikmin (where you get to control different colored carrot people in quests), I was sold.
My first impressions of Overlord was that I was playing Sauron, back when he was still a horse-headed giant-type, before all that all-seeing angry red eye on top of a tower business. As Overlord you are in charge of goblins, who come in four flavors: brown, red, blue, and green. Fans of Pikmin (or any video game on the planet) know how this works: blues are immune to water, greens are immune to poison, etc. These diabolical minions accompany your Overlord everywhere as you rampage around the countryside reclaiming your evil inheritance. You know, cleaning up the tower, reclaiming all your minions, and finding a naughty girl to settle down with.
Being an Overlord is rather domestic,...Read more
40 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Dungeon Keeper Meets Pikmin,
July 8, 2007 = Fun: This review is from: Overlord (Video Game)
While the commercials make Overlord seem like a Dungeon Keeper game - a series I *adored* - in actual gameplay, this is pretty much Pikmin with an attitude. This can be great or annoying depending on your point of view.
You are playing a dark lord who looks very suspiciously like Sauron from the Lord of the Rings series. Your advisor and minions are straight from Gremlins, with perhaps a bit of Yoda thrown in for good measure. When you head out on your first world to conquer, you run into hobbits, who live in little holes with round doors, in a village named ... "Spree". Yes, the game goes out of its way to be cute and poke fun at all fantasy stories.
Just like in Dungeon Keeper, you are in control of a swarm of mindless but generally loyal lackeys. You start with just the basic grunts, but as you progress you can unlock a healthy variety of creature types.
Most of your tasks are typical - get 10 minions to push aside a blockade, send your minions in...Read more
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
all hail the Overlord!! <- man, that guy's annoying..,
July 17, 2007 Raul Duke "Gonzo HST" (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: Overlord (Video Game)
ive had a pretty good time with Overlord so far (im about 15 hours in). i first heard about it a little over a year before it was released, and i had really been looking forward to this one. while it is a good game, and there isnt much selection for these types on the 360, it is kind of a let down for me. if only for the fact that i was hoping for a darker more mature, violent game than it's turned out to be. i was also hoping for a slightly deeper experience as well (huge Oblivion fun) but its ok, because this game is very entertaining, between the villagers cowering in fear before you, to you minions getting drunk and "relieving themselves" all over the place. thats still priceless.
as most people have already said, this sort of plays like a mix of Fable (Xbox) and Pikmin (GC). you control the overlord with the left stick, and you can use the right stick to navigate your minions to various locations.
the one thing i really didnt like about this game is the lack...Read more
