Review: Overlord 2

[Susan Arendt]

Review: Overlord 2

Overlord 2 isn't deep and it isn't profound. It's just fun.

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[Caimekaze]

For some reason I was always under the impression that Overlord was bad. I'm not entirely sure why, in retrospect.
I'm very tempted to buy this. Which is irritating, as I have other stuff I need to buy. Arrgh.

... That minion hugging the graveyard worker was the cutest thing I've seen all day.

 

[hansari]

Overlord 2 has been garnering much of the same negative feedback its predecessor got. Its good to see some positive reviews coming forth.

Like you said, for all the games faults, its still very fun.

Question: Do you think you would have gone through the same camera/control problems with the pc version? I played the pc version of the first Overlord and it wasn't as bad as you make it sound...

 

[Nimbus]

Argh! No! Why does my computer have to be broken at a time when such a great game comes out?!?

 

[Doug]

I quite liked overlord 2 - ok, the gameplay is pretty much the same as last time, and there are a host of things to complain about, but the gameplay is fun enough and the story fun enough to make it a fun play for me.

 

[Reinis]

Thanks for the review. I just wish the video quality was higher. It looks like YouTube used to look before they implemented HQ/HD formats. Also, the splash screen is displayed in the fullscreen mode background. I guess you've broken Flowplayer, or are using an old version of it.

 

[Jon Etheridge]

This looks like fun actually. I may have to pick this up. I am curious though, who the hell fed the mogwai after midnight?

 

[Gerazzi]

I have now played it, I also realized that I'm an evil bastard.

 

[Woem]

I never heard of Overlord but I quite like the concept. It's like playing as Dungeon Keeper's Reaper.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Not sure if the camera would work better on PS3 or PC -- and to be honest, friends of mine who've played on the 360 haven't been nearly as frustrated with the camera as I was. But it drives me insane. Especially the bit where it tries to point me in the "right" direction.

 

[Limos]

I played the original overlord on the PC and I never had a problem with the camera. It was a great game, one of the few that actually held my interest to the end.

 

[Operations]

That minion hugging the graveyard worker was the cutest thing I've seen all day.

Hehe yes I had a little chuckle at that.

When Susan was saying how evil are you, I was waiting for her to say you are 'Timmy The Evil' evil

I shall have to pick up the demo off steam and give this a run about, though trying out aion for next few days.

 

[Abedeus]

I had a long-ass post here, but it got lost thanks to 404 error. So long story short:

Game is fun, funny, but minions tend to be just as stupid as you might imagine them.

At least Overlord doesn't die after 10 seconds of combat. And crafting is better... And.. well, it's a sequel that did a good job fixing mistakes of the past.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

If they can fix some of the past problems, which it sounds like they haven't, it could be fun...after all who can argue against: evil = fun?

 

[Leftnt Sharpe]

Seals can see in to your soul. They must be destroyed!

 

[t.tocs]

The first overlord was just a complete bore for me. I wish they made more of an overhaul on this game and I'd consider it, but since it's just the same old with new tweaks, I'll skip it.