Overlord Demo Review
Between games of Shadowrun I took a little bit to check out the Overlord demo and I’m glad I did because it was lot of fun. The graphics were decent. Not outstanding or anything, but pretty good. Basically, the point of this action adventure game is that you are an Evil Overlord that was nearly killed and your tower nearly destroyed. You now have to use your minions to restore evil to the world and rebuild your tower. Your minions look a lot like Gremlins, but they are still fun to control. You can either send them strait ahead of you with the Right Trigger or control exactly where they move with the right thumb stick. I had a lot of fun having my minions do random stupid stuff like smash pumpkins and kill sheep. The minion interact with the environment in fun ways as you send them through the world. For example, while smashing pumpkins a couple of my minions put pumpkins on their heads and for the rest of the time playing they kept them there. It was really funny.
The controls were a little odd, but since I’m been playing mostly first person shooters for a while that could be part of it. Part of the issue was that it is not easy to look around. Hopefully they’ll get the controls/camera so it is a bit easier to look around, but over all I was surprised with how much fun it is to be had. After trying the demo I think I’ll probably rent the game. If you have not downloaded the demo yet I’d recommend checking it out.
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