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Title: Overlord 2
Format: DVD-ROM
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Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Codemasters Games
Hits: 44

Review of Overlord 2

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Comments for Overlord 2

• Posted on 2009-08-25
  Flawed
  
  Pros:
  *The minions are hilarious. They really make an otherwise weak game a bit of fun.
  *The aesthetics of the environments, including the Dark Tower are really well down. It's nice how the tower improves as you move along in your Overlording.
  *Music is good.
  
  Cons:
  *A lot of the controls and game play suck. The "sweep" command in the PC version, at least, is seriously, seriously flawed and makes for A LOT of frustration when things don't work as expected. This is a really awful flaw that takes the game from being fun and challenging to needlessly irritating. This combined with the inability to save as you go (only at spottily available spots) makes for a lot of wasted time and anger.
  *Bugs such as walking to close to an NPC and seeing his or her hair and eyeballs floating in front of you are rather stupid, but not so distracting.
  *Enslaved peasants and plebs follow you to the point of blocking your way.
  *The "auto targeting" system rarely works the way it should. It generally doesn't target what you are trying to target except by trying over and over and over again.
  
  *Other than those two serious flaws the game is pretty fun. Just the usual amount of misogyny, homophobia, and racism that are in games made for psychosexually/sociologically retarded fanboys for psychosexually/sociologically retarded fan boys. Those with a brain could still enjoy the game while laughing AT the designers and the intended audience and rolling your eyes a lot. Well you could if the game was playable. Full of typical trite stereotypes such as environmentalists are gay, women are powerless whores and sex objects waiting for the man to come save them so they can be a spoiled mistress, and fat people are evil and funny at the time (how original!!).
  
  Conclusion:
  Perhaps this game works well on Playstation or XBox, but whoever ported it to the PC failed big time. Epic fail in the mechanics of how the game works. The game idea had some potential (playing the bad guy), but failed all around by falling back on tired stereotypes of fantasy. Nothing original or what might pass for a new twist on the old, boring ideas. Seems to be made by and targeted at immature 12 year old boys (no insult to 12 year old boys with a brain). Lots of good humor in regards to the minions might make up for the tiredness if played on other system, but not with the frustrations inherent in the poor programming/operation of the PC version.
  
  Don't bother with this one.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-23
  IT'S WORTH IT !
  
  I DON'T WRITE A REVIEW VERY OFTEN,IN FACT I DON'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I DID.
  BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT,I JUST COMPLETED THE GAME AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A LITTLE
  BETTER THAN THE FIRST.YOU'RE MAGIC,WEAPONS AND ARMORS ARE BETTER, THE CHALLENGES
  YOU MUST DO ARE MUCH HARDER.ALSO,THE MINIONS AREN'T REALLY THAT SILLY, IT'S THE ELVES AND CITIZEN'S.ALL IN ALL I REALLY ENJOYED PLAYING IT,BUT DON'T ONLY TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!.BUY IT,TRY IT.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-15
  A puzzle solver not a RTS
  
  I read reviews on this game before I bought it so I thought I'd give it a try. It wasn't until I played it for about two hours that I realized this game's not for me. It really isn't a RTS or much of an RPG game but rather most of the time it is a linear puzzle solver. There are some side quests but most of the time you need to find the one and only one solution to move on. There are upgrades to yourself and minions but in the end it doesn't seem to matter. Since I just finished Fallout 3 and its expansions this is too restrictive for me. This game doesn't fit my style of play but may be fine for other potential buyers.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-14
  A completely new type of awesomeness!!
  
  The only thing that stayed the same was the minion controls. Completely new plot, world, magic, and laughs. I you liked overlord 1 you will love this game! Being evil is just so much fun, and now there are two completely evil paths instead good or evil. I have already beaten the game around three times, and am still enjoying it. Oh, and codemasters fixed most of the minion glitches from the previous game making the use of minions that much more fun.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-08
  Wish my comp didn't crash
  
  Overlord 2 while simple really delievers a sold play experience. As far as graphics everything is done really well, all the environments and areas really suck you in to a fantasy world. The minions are really fun to watch as they wack, destroy and arm themselves with weapons and armor of fallen enemies. The only real drawback is the player kind of wishes for more control over the minions. Fighting just comes down to running around and holding the left mouse button for minions to attack. there are however some great moments when you take control of a minion.
  
  This game is fun it really is, but after one time it just isn't fun anymore. My computer crashed and lost its save game, after that overlord 2 just wasn't interesting. The games tries to fool you into thinking it has replayabality. All the missions are very linear and you can only do so much in each level. Your minions always arm themselves the same way it seems. I would recomend it but dont buy it if you think you can get 30 hours of fun gameplay.
  
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