Overlord takes influences from other great games and mashes it into one.

User Rating: 7.7 | Overlord X360
By fhiz | Review Date:
Overlord's premise is, you're evil, you got some minions, do evil things, but really you're doing good things since the good "Heros" have been corrupted and your job is to wipe them out. Aiding you in your quest are pikmin-esque goblin like dead zombie rabbit looking minions who will do whatever you tell them to do including giving up their own life to extend yours. Gameplay: If you played Pikmin 1 or 2 for the gamecube, you pretty much know what's going to be going on. You control lots of little minions to pillage towns, kill enemies, and carry large objects so you don't have to do crap. Pikmin was a very fun concept and while it's carried over to Overlord, that concept remains fun. The only thing that I have really experienced thats frustrating about this (like those three giant bird heads early in Pikmin 1) is if you're sweeping all your minions with the right stick, sometimes they start to destroy random objects rather than attack you, and often its hard to sweep them to the next thing after they've killed something because they'll come back to you first. Other than that minor little gripe, the game is easy to control and downright fun.

Graphics: Nothing here to right home about. They look like a game from early in the 360's library. Up to today's standards, the graphics aren't spectacular. There are some good effects, but textures are a little muddy and the surrounding grass and bushes have sorta a weird outline to them. But nevertheless, they get the job done.

Sound: Overlord has a nice soundtrack accompanied by a pretty funny voice acting job. It's very cartoonish which suits the game well since it doesn't take itself very seriously. The minions sound like you'd imagine, crazy little high pitched dead rabbit looking goblin things. You can help but laugh when they let out a sigh of relief after they drink something and start peeing everywhere.

Value: $60 bucks is a little much for this game, especially when the PC version is something like $40. But 360 owners should be used to this by now. My personal opinion is that it should of been $50 but whatever, what can you do?

Tilt: In the end, Overlord is a very good game. It's not the best game you'll ever play, but if you're looking for a fun game that doesn't take itself too seriously, to spend some time with, Overlord won't do you wrong.

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