Tue 04 Oct 2011
Playstation
Overlord Review
What’s cool about this game is it doesn’t make you feel bad or guilty
about being evil, instead it makes you feel quite the opposite – giddy
with excitement, in large part due to the contagious excitement of your
minions who are simply overjoyed when you embark on evil endeavours.
The point of Overlord is to be as evil and merciless as possible, crush
the will of villagers by destroying them and eradicating everything that
gets in your way.
As far as gameplay is concerned, Overlord wittingly combines RTS elements with action and RPG elements and quite effectively manages to weave them together to create a compelling campaign that requires you to occasionally use strategic elements but for the most part will have you mindlessly mowing through enemies.
It’s a very fun game but what really makes this game fun is your little mischievous minion who are always enthusiastic about committing evil deeds, they delight in it almost with a child like fervour that quickly rubs off on you. Heck they are more excited about the Overlord’s campaign of evil than the Overlord himself is.
You can point them in any direction, send them out on their own and you can rest assured they’ll destroy everything in their path and salvage what they can from villages. If they find armour, they’ll put it on, if they find gold for you they’ll bring it back, whatever you ask them to do, they’ll do giddily. You can sweep them across the screen far away from you or control them more scrupulously in order to perform more specific tasks.
For the most part the controls are pretty intuitive and your minions are cooperative, however they are not without their problems. After about a few hours when you’ll be required to manage different groups of minions you’ll notice that it can be a bit overwhelming at times to perform certain tasks and it will feel like your greatest challenge is not the task itself but the controls.
Overall the game looks pretty cool, it has some really captivating cinematics that take you right inside the Overlord’s evil lair and give you a glimpse of what the Overlord and his evil minions do when they’re not wreaking havoc on villages.
Although the game is about being evil, the game is rated teen, so it’s not particularly gory, there’s nothing that you’ll do that will horrify you, it is very light, childish, humorous take on being evil, it verges on being a parody of evil and contains all the clichés of being evil. Some of the missions actually feel like you’re taking on a heroic role, so overall the game is very light and humorous. It’s definitely worth playing just for the humorous aspects alone, never has being evil been so funny and felt so good.
Rating: 83% “This game is hilariously fun.”
Pros:
Very funny cinematic sequences
Perhaps the only game you’ll find who’s story is entirely told from Evil’s perspective
Very fun
As far as gameplay is concerned, Overlord wittingly combines RTS elements with action and RPG elements and quite effectively manages to weave them together to create a compelling campaign that requires you to occasionally use strategic elements but for the most part will have you mindlessly mowing through enemies.
It’s a very fun game but what really makes this game fun is your little mischievous minion who are always enthusiastic about committing evil deeds, they delight in it almost with a child like fervour that quickly rubs off on you. Heck they are more excited about the Overlord’s campaign of evil than the Overlord himself is.
You can point them in any direction, send them out on their own and you can rest assured they’ll destroy everything in their path and salvage what they can from villages. If they find armour, they’ll put it on, if they find gold for you they’ll bring it back, whatever you ask them to do, they’ll do giddily. You can sweep them across the screen far away from you or control them more scrupulously in order to perform more specific tasks.
For the most part the controls are pretty intuitive and your minions are cooperative, however they are not without their problems. After about a few hours when you’ll be required to manage different groups of minions you’ll notice that it can be a bit overwhelming at times to perform certain tasks and it will feel like your greatest challenge is not the task itself but the controls.
Overall the game looks pretty cool, it has some really captivating cinematics that take you right inside the Overlord’s evil lair and give you a glimpse of what the Overlord and his evil minions do when they’re not wreaking havoc on villages.
Although the game is about being evil, the game is rated teen, so it’s not particularly gory, there’s nothing that you’ll do that will horrify you, it is very light, childish, humorous take on being evil, it verges on being a parody of evil and contains all the clichés of being evil. Some of the missions actually feel like you’re taking on a heroic role, so overall the game is very light and humorous. It’s definitely worth playing just for the humorous aspects alone, never has being evil been so funny and felt so good.
Rating: 83% “This game is hilariously fun.”
Pros:
Very funny cinematic sequences
Perhaps the only game you’ll find who’s story is entirely told from Evil’s perspective
Very fun
