Overlord (Xbox 360)

I'm incredibly tight fisted, I'm not going to spend £40 on a game; so when play.com announced their January Sale which included a chunk of Xbox 360 games I decided to have a look. What would have cost me £45 a couple of months back now cost me £17.99 and to add to that I managed to get another couple of games too all under £45. I had read about Overlord late last year with several reviews stating its similarity to a popular standard Xbox game Fable, a game I enjoyed quite passionately. Not of course that I would ever, ever play console games. As the Overlord you awake from a slumber to find ... more

Overlord - this game has a very simple concept which at times can be very difficult! You play as the Overlord. You have a dark tower which throughout the game you can customise to an extent and the best thing that you have is control over your minions. Your minions, well they best way of discribing these are as little goblins that each have different skills and abilities. You can collect 4 different types. You do need to have all 4 at your disposal before you can proceed in the game. The 4 minions you can have are brown (fighters), red (can throw fireballs and immune to fire), green (can turn ... more

Ok, perhaps I shouldn't, but I really like this game. The game, Overlord is reasonably addictive, but what makes this game special is the Goblins. For anybody that has seen any of the Gremlins movies, the Goblins in this game are much like those. Cheeky, pesky, critters that cuase mad mayhem and often have you chuckling away at the quips and line they come out with. In your home base, an evil tower, you even have your own Goblin jester that really sucks up to you, and you can beat him just for your own amusement. Basically before your creation there was another overlord, but he was conquered ... more

Overlord. I have read quite a few reviews about this game, mainly they centre on how the games 'controls' are very hard to use, personally I disagree, the controls become very easy to use once you have played the game for a good 30 or so minutes. Gameplay on Overlord is in my own words 'Excellent' I completed the game twice and unlocked as many achievements as I could get for this game purely for the fact that its an incredibly addictive and fun game, controlling a huge supply of minions and killing innocent people or saving them is always fun, right? Graphics are great for this game, true it ... more