Customer Reviews

Overlord 2

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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.

I am a big fan of this series. I may be only rated for teens but I really enjoy playing it and I am 28. All around good fun.

if you like being evil, if you like evil little minions, if you like an voluptuous mistress(or three),if you like difficult controls - this game is for you

The game has not bored me. Being evil can be fun. Brown minions are my favorite even though they are the first you start with. Loading can be a pain though, but wich game isn't. God of War III

Highly recommend you play Overload 1 first. Overload 2 is even better than the first game, which was really good. Game has plenty of levels and game play, fun puzzles, and full of humor. Not for young children. It is the one game that I won't let my boyfriend play without me in the room to watch.

Great Game, lots of mischief. Countless hours of play even after defeating the final boss you can go back play again. Definetly worth the money.

Overlord II adresses many of the issues in Overlord: Raising hell
such as the Horrid camra and poor minion controls. here the controls are a breese and the graphics are improved quite a bit over the last title.
the minion mounts seem to be required in certain areas and then simply discarded when entering a new area. a minor flaw but one I can easily overlook.
Now you have two overlording styles this time around,
one is evil and the other... Really Evil (aka destruction Overlord)
you can now Dominate with your power towns folk and others you meet along the way
also, bosses are nicely presented without the usual long winded scenes.
I appreciated the way they handled that part since I am here to fight and Dominate not chat up a few dryads!
ah yes and you can collect a harem this time around and have quite a bit of fun having an "audience" with various townsfolk.
you can also create new armor and weapon types and the game supports trophies and online multiplayer as well as the 2 player split screen.
this is a great game that pokes a lot of fun at RPG cliche's and is simply a great game and from this humble writers opinion a worthy buy for anyone whom even remotely liked the first game.

Gameplay: 4 of 5 stars controls are good but some (like the boat) can be a bit annoying.

Graphics: Not a huge improvement but better then before 4 of 5 stars.

Fun: 5 of 5 stars the game is a blast and when it shines it really shines!

Overall: a worthy buy and a fun title to play alone or with friends online or off.

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Overlord II
Overlord 2

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Overlord Raising hell
Overlord: Raising Hell

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

the game is good over all but it has way too many glitches and the game play controls could have been better.