Overlord 2 (Xbox 360)

Overlord is something everyone needs to take with a pinch of salt. It is a game designed with humour, loose graces and a lot of fun. If you take away the prudent ideals of how "a game should be" Overlord 1/2 is proven to be that almost slapstick type comedy in a gaming form. This is the flip side of gaming. Instead of the high quality graphics and intricate, detailed storylines as you race to the end of the game as a 6 packed hero of the day ; you are simply an evil lord out in the world to evil things with a more comic-meets-gremlins level of art. The main complaint would possibly be that the camera appeared to be on steroids and ...  Read the complete review

The humor of Overlord 1 is still there, the missions and objectives are entertaining, and the length of the game seems ok. There are plenty of new features such as minion mounts. So far so good, but for me the "good" stopped there. I completed the first game, and (somewhat subjectively) I don't recall the camera control, fortress navigation and in particular the save system to be quite so frustrating. Several times you get stuck in sections where you have to complete a rather significant, and not entirely easy, stretch of gameplay, which at least once included two boss battles, and yet another time consuming stretch of minion handling between ...  Read the complete review

Fantastic game! I am not a fan of games on the Xbox 360. The console is my boyfriends and the only games he seems to buy (or seem to be available) are shooting games, Wrestling or anything sports so I was surprised when I heard about this game. At first I wanted to get it on my Wii console but after speaking with the lady from the store who informed me that this version is longer and better graphically I brought the version on Xbox 360. To start off with this game is soooo funny, there are little tidbits of humour throughout the game which is surprising considering your character is the Overlord of Evil, the first time I found myself giggling in this game is ...  Read the complete review

Overlord 2 stars the son of the Overlord from the original game, and thus starts out in a pretty interesting way - with you controlling the roughly 10 year old incarnation of pure evil. It's fun to start out like this, but of course things really kick into gear when the game progresses and you get to play as the Overlord proper. When this happens, it becomes quickly apparent that very little has changed since the original game. For me, this wasn't anything to complain about; I loved the original Overlord to death and thought there was very little to improve on - but for those who didn't like the original, move along, there's nothing to see here. There are a ...  Read the complete review