You know life sometimes is full of hard choices.  Should you control the world or destroy it? Should you choose the slutty mistress, the nice mistress, the evil mistress, or all three?  Which minions should you send in?  For an Evil Overlord it never ends. In 2007, Triumph Studios and Codemasters came out with a highly addictive, little known game called Overlord.  The game had a small cult following and gained enough fans to spawn an expansion pack in 2008.

Two years after the original release the game developers decided a sequel was needed.  Overlord 2 uses some the same mechanics from the 1st game to make the game player feel right at home with the controls.  The third person action-adventure game is full of dark humor and allows you to decide just how evil you want to become.

The plot line is basically: you are evil, so take over the world.  If you are like me and the darker the character in a game the better, then you are in luck.  This game had me at the moment I sent my minions out to club some baby seals.  The graphics for the game are a little better than the original.  The thing that the game makers decided to change was a little bit of how the minions moved around.  The minions now have mounts that make them quicker and more powerful.  Nothing beats a minion taking out a few villagers and then bringing you back some loot while yelling, “FOR YOU MASTER!”  The game is designed to poke fun at other games and fantasy worlds, and it does a great job of pulling you in and making you want to waste your life destroying the world you live in.  Though the minions sometimes get stuck and the villagers in your world tend to repeat themselves ALOT, I think this is still a great game.

-Good Graphics and sound

-High Replay Value

-Controls are well designed, but a little buggy

-Great story line and does good job building up gameplay

7.5/10

If you haven’t played or even heard of the 1st Overlord game I would tell you to go get it.  You can get it cheap used, and it is good for hours of entertainment.