May 102013
Overlord 2
- Storyline and action permeated by by the Overlord series trademark physical comedy and parody.
- Browns, Reds, Blues and Greens return stronger, smarter, faster badder and funnier. Always on the chaotic side of organised anarchy, the Minions are smarter and deadlier in their skills than ever before.
- Minions will be able to mount up and ride wolves and other magical creatures around the landscape and take them into battle
- Written by award-winning games writer, Rhianna Pratchett, Overlord II puts the laughter into slaughter and continues the series¿ trademark humour
- 4 multiplayer games each of which has their own distinct map. Two are co-op play and 2 are Versus mode.
Overlord II is the sequel to the hit warped fantasy action adventure that had players being delightfully despotic. In Overlord II, a new Overlord and a more powerful army of Minions take on the Glorious Empire, an advanced Romanesque nation, in a truly epic, yet familiarly warped, adventure. As the Glorious Empire conquers kingdoms and destroys any sign of magic it finds, it¿s time to go Minion Maximus with a rousing cry of ¿Veni, Vidi, Vici¿ and send in the horde. The Minions return smarter,
List Price: $ 14.99
Price: $ 41.51
Missing something from the first one,
Sorry this is so long, if you want depth read the whole thing, if you prefer brevity then I would simply say for those who never played the first one you should play it, it is more fun than the second, and for those who did play the first, then rent the second before you buy, because it is less fun than the first.
I really enjoyed the first Overlord. It was different and unique, and just a lot of fun. The graphics were not the best ever, but served their purpose, and the voice acting was (I believe) intentionally horrid, and helped sell the world. The game was still funny, and a lot of fun even with some annoying camera and control issues. The second one is exactly the same as the first, minus most of the fun.
If you never played the first then as background, you play an evil overlord who controls a horde of minions of various colors and abilities (brown = fighter, red = flamethrower, green = hiding/backstabbing, blue = healing/swimming) and you send them to smite the “good” guys (few of the “good” people are actually very good though in either game) and that is about it. The first game made up for the lack of any more real depth by making the enemies funny with specific downfalls (gluttony, lust, sloth, greed) and giving the minions some limited personality.
The second game eliminates a lot of what made the first enjoyable, first the enemies have nothing to identify them, the bosses recieve limited, if any, introduction or personality, and the basic soldiers/villagers are just there to be hit with something. Also, the advertised improvements such as minion mounts and sailing the boats are poorly implemented. Brown (wolves), green (spiders), and red (salamanders) minions can obtain mounts, but they are fairly useless except in the specific section they are needed. Wolves can jump over large gaps and spiders can climb webs so you see a wolf, you know ok, gap somewhere or spider = web to climb somewhere nearby. But that is it, and unlike weapons and armor for your minions, you can’t keep mounts, they either leave when you return the minions to their nests, or when you change areas, but not even zones, there will just be certain areas in the same zone you obtain the mounts which they can’t cross and just stop (and worse, can get stuck) and toss your minions off. Ships are even more annoying as there was some potential there but mostly they are used to get to a dock and that’s it. After the first area you use it, then you really don’t again. The game could have easily been designed without them and nothing at all would change.
Minions are still annoyingly stupid, I have to run the whole group over treasure and weapons several times before one will pick something up, and the camera seems even worse in this game than the first. There have been times when it got stuck facing my character from the front so I couldn’t see what was coming or how to direct my minions without constantly turning it back behind me. Also, they eliminted the abyss (Hell) zones. In the first game after you beat an area you could open a gateway to basically hell where the enemies and people you met and fought are comedically suffering for their sins. These areas expanded the games play time and were a source of amusement (the gluttonous halfling who ate everything did so until he exploded, forever). The second one just lets you go back to a beaten area and either dominate everyone and force them to be your slaves or just kill them. The thing is there are 100 people you have to do this to in each town and it is BORING. Just doing it drags, but it is even more frustrating when you can only find 97 of them and spend hours trying to find the other 3. This is worse for domination since all the people are still around, your slaves and the not-yet-converted, so it gets really confusing trying to figure out who is and who isn’t by just the slight blue static around your slaves heads.
On the plus side the new addition of stages where you posess the body of a minion and become one of them and sneak around or dress up as the enemy are actually amusing and fun, though you lose all of your overlord abilities, although magic is much less interesting in this game than the first anyway.
Like I said before this game is almost exactly the same as the first, only without the wit and humor that game possessed. If you enjoyed the first one, you may like this, or you may be disappointed like me, so I recommned a rental, if you hated the first then you will hate this one more.
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So Addicting and FUN,
I purchased this game about a month ago and I have been playing this game religiously. Referring to other reviews, I don’t see how anyone gets “lost” in this game if they’re actually paying attention to what’s going on in the game. On the contrary, if you look on the map, there’s a little exclamation point that shows you where you’re supposed to go.
I haven’t completed this game 100% but I’m almost there. Overall, I think I’ve seen enough to easily earn this game 5 stars. I would absolutely recommend this game to any of my friends.
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It was fun the first time around. Round 2 disappoints slightly.,
The first title in this series was fresh and fun. PS3 owners got a great bargain because the game and the expansion “Raising Hell” was included in a single PS3 title. By comparison, Overlord II seems a little boring and short. The story was mildly interesting but very sparse (mostly it just seems you were running around killing/dominating). The game was a fair deal at 20 or 15 dollars, but for someone looking for a fun game, I would say just purchase the first in the series and leave it at that.Overlord: Raising Hell
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