Overlord II is the sequel to the fantastic success deformed action adventure that had players who delightfully despotic. In Overlord II, a new Overlord and a more powerful army of Minions take on the Glorious Empire, a nation of art in an epic novel, however, often distorted, adventure. In the glorious Empire conquers kingdoms and destroys any sign of magic it finds, at the time to go Minion Maximus with a message of enthusiasm, "Veni, vidi, vici" and send the horde. Minions return smarter and more deadly (and fun) and are willing to deliver large-scale battles that will see their wild pack mentality confrontation with organized legions Glorious Empire. As always, I'll do anything and everything the Overlord commands of them, especially now that it can run ravage and destruction of buildings and landscapes. See also learned to ride: In Overlord II Minions will be able to ride wolves and other magical creatures in the landscape and take them into battle, our band of merry fighters faster and fiercer than ever.
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| Overlord II is the sequel to the hit warped fantasy action adventure that had players being delightfully despotic. In Overlord II, a new overlord and a more powerful army of Minions take on an entire empire in a truly epic adventure, inspired by the rise of the Roman Empire. As this new enemy, the Glorious Empire, conquers kingdoms and destroys any sign of magic it finds, it’s time to go Minion Maximus and send in the horde.
Overlord II picks up right where the previous game left off. In it the original overlord is no more, and in his absence the order of things have changed dramatically. The comically evil, but still deadly gremlin-like army known as Minions are lost without a leader to focus their chaotic power for good, ill or both. Yet change finally appears to be in the air. Sensing that something is afoot, the Minion horde has made its way north to the town of Nordberg. Here they find a male child the likes of which has not been seen since the coming of the original overlord. This child is obviously special, but time is short and he has much to learn. In recent days a new power has arisen, known as the "Glorious Empire." Based in Roman-like legionary tactics, the power of this new enemy is being used to take over all the relinquished territories of the old overlord, and to extinguish all the magic in the land in order to weaken all potential enemies. As the new overlord it's your task to gain all the strength and skills you can, harness the power of the Minion horde and take back what is yours. Gameplay - Destroy or Dominate Manage Your Minions Multiplayer Options Laughter on the Battlefield Written by award-winning games writer, Rhianna Pratchett, Overlord II puts the laughter into slaughter and continues the series’ trademark humor, playing on the mischievous physical comedy of the minion’s antics with a sprinkling of parody for good measure. |
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Missing something from the first one
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.
Eeh
The graphics are second rate. It is not that important because the game tries to be high in playability and just simple fun. The game designers had a lot of fun poking fun at fantastical worlds and have a morbid sense of humour. I really like these types of action/rts games, but the jokes are not funny. For instance to get like you have to club baby seals to death.
The game is hard to figure out sometimes; you get left in an area and do not receive any new direction until you back up and go explore somewhere else, but that was never evident before the directions (from some goblin) stop.
For the Overlord!
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.
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