Overlord Impressions

[Modeps]

Overlord is an 'Evil' version of Pikmin... evil is in quotes because it doesnt really matter. They reward you for being good, they reward you for being bad. 4 types of underlings, each with their specific strength. Fire, Water, Poison, and Generic

Environments are HUGE... a lot bigger than I originally thought when I started playing. Level Design is for the most part great with a few. Some very entertaining, tough but not frustratingly-so puzzles. Audio is great quality voice acting, some genuinely funny moments albeit a bit too many location specific sayings.

It's a bit repetitive. It's a little easy. Customizing your tower is pointless. Camera control is crap (there isn't any really, just "reset" and "overview"). There's no world map that I can tell (my used copy has no booklet) which makes things a little tough to remember where they are.

My biggest issue with Overlord is that its too similar to Pikmin... a game that I've already played and gotten bored with that long before I finished. I'm already getting bored with Overlord, but am just playing it as much as I can because I'll be returning it Saturday (gamerpoints!).

If you haven't played Pikmin, try Overlord. It's a good game, just not for me to keep around.

 

[Thraxen]

I played through it all the way and enjoyed it. My views on the game are very similar to yours. I doubt I would have been willing to buy it at full retail when it was new, but I'd say it makes a decent used game purchase or a great rental (I got it through GameFly).

 

[bucwylde23]

I played it as a rental through gamefly and thought it was pretty fun, but still just a rental. It got kind of repetitive and boring about halfway through so I stopped playing

 

[Kev]

I played it for awhile but it just made me want to try pikmin 2 instead.

 

[Xavier434]

I loved it. It's the closest thing to the Dungeon Keeper series to come out since DK2. I really wish that project wasn't closed 🙁