Overlord

Kamakazie! · 5 Jun 2007 at 20:19

Anyone else looking forward to this? It seems to take aspects from Dungeon Keeper and the like. Made by a Dutch (i think) developer and published by Codemasters.

I think it will will make a nice change of pace from my usual games. Something to mess around with for an hour or two when i just want to do some mindless destruction.

Some 360 gameplay videos (WARNING: Contains a good chunk of the start of the game):

Xboxyde 1
Xboxyde 2

I really like the humour and the kinda upbeat environments which counteract the dark character you play.
The basic aim is to rebuild your dominion by rebuilding your tower and influencing the world around it. This is done mainly by controlling minions of various kinds and using your own powers to some extent. There seem to be some puzzle elements to it as well with different races of minions being able to do different things.

Lagmeister · 5 Jun 2007 at 20:39

I read about this game a while back, it looks a lot like the same sort of humour in dungeon keeper and I love the chance to play a properly evil game, even if it is just funny. Cant wait for this one.

Crilly · 5 Jun 2007 at 21:38

PC gamer uk gave it 75% in this months issue. Thought it would do better.

Kamakazie! · 5 Jun 2007 at 21:51

Crilly said:
PC gamer uk gave it 75% in this months issue. Thought it would do better.

Well as much as i like looking at reviews, i wasn't expecting a 90+ from this game (though i thought it might get an 80-85) so i will no doubt still be purchasing it.
There is a fair bit of positive feedback over at NeoGaf on this game from people who have played it so i'm still happy

What were their +/- about the game?

Last Kronin · 12 Jun 2007 at 01:35

The Demo is on Fileplanet, just been playing it and thought it was quite fun
espically with my little minions using pumpkins as helmets

some screenies

Hmm something weird has happened with my screenies, some have resized :confused:

Bane · 12 Jun 2007 at 18:45

wrong thread.

oweneades · 12 Jun 2007 at 21:28

Kamakazie! said:
Anyone else looking forward to this? It seems to take aspects from Dungeon Keeper and the like. Made by a Dutch (i think) developer and published by Codemasters.

I think it will will make a nice change of pace from my usual games. Something to mess around with for an hour or two when i just want to do some mindless destruction.

Some 360 gameplay videos (WARNING: Contains a good chunk of the start of the game):

Xboxyde 1
Xboxyde 2

I really like the humour and the kinda upbeat environments which counteract the dark character you play.
The basic aim is to rebuild your dominion by rebuilding your tower and influencing the world around it. This is done mainly by controlling minions of various kinds and using your own powers to some extent. There seem to be some puzzle elements to it as well with different races of minions being able to do different things.

I have played the 360 demo and whilst it is appealing in concept it can get dull very quickly. It also felt far too simply (especially the controls)

Last Kronin · 12 Jun 2007 at 21:51

Sometimes all you want is something simply and fun, after a hard gaming session