Sometimes being bad can feel SO good.
The game isn't perfect, however. The visuals aren't that great, to be kind. There is lots of pop-up, draw-in and the graphics have a serious lack-of-polish feel to them. The camera can be very irritating at times, even though I didn't have as many problems with it as some reviews have stated. The A.I. of your minions is usually quite good, but when it comes to avoiding water or fire, they seem to have crap for brains. This is quite important since only one of your minion types can swim and only one can deal with fire. It's annoying to have some of your minions die to stupidity on the A.I.'s part. While the controls feel funky at first, you quickly get used to them due to the excellent in-game tutorial. And the storyline isn't the most interesting in the world, but that didn't really bother me since I was having so much fun causing chaos with my minions, capturing wenches, torturing peasants, and courting an empress. There are so many fun things to do in this game that the problems really don't get to be too much.
Most games that try to be the 'jack-of-all trades' usually fall flat on their face. Most of the time it's wise to stick to one type of genre and go with it. But Overlord blends all of what I mentioned before and the game not only doesn't stumble, but it succeeds where some others have failed. The game certainly has it's problems, but I think it's a game that everyone should at least try once.