Gaming Addict

If you haven’t played the first Overlord you should.  Despite that fact that it’s a fairly broken game, it introduced a lot of ideas.  Like, controlling a horde of minions, which pretty much plays out as a small army under your command to destroy anything from sheep, to humans, to halflings (in their full hobbit ripoff glory).  All the while being as evil, or good/evil as you desire.

Like I said the first Overlord added to a crowded adventure game market a new take on the concept of combat and puzzle solving.  But was widely missed by many gamers that would have enjoyed the unique take on fantasy.  

But good news has been announced recently, as an Overlord sequel is in development, being referred to simply as Overlord 2 for the moment.  So far the promises for this new edition will be more of the same minion controlling combat and shenanigans as before, with none of the issues that plagued the first game.  You know, those ? worthy design decision like no camera control, awful melee combat for your character, almost no movement ability.  Even the control over the minions themselves could have been much more polished.

And seriously, in this day and age no good multiplayer content?  No wonder nobody on Live is playing the first Overlord.  

It’s a lot to ask for any studio to rebuild a game from scratch essentially, to fix so many issues, but not forget about the many fantastic points available.  But hopefully developer Codemasters is more than up to one such challenge.

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