I'm probably the biggest Overlord fan on staff, and pretty much fell in love with Codemasters' original title on sight. My only real problem was that the titular Overlord was never really as evil as he was advertised, and you were more "amoral" than a truly malevolent dictator. This new developer diary takes note of such criticism, and is promising that proper tyranny will be on offer in Overlord II. Yes!
Rather than working to make villagers love you, the new Overlord can either loot, burn, rob and kill, or he can subdue innocent people, turning them into mindless slaves. This new "destruction and domination" system should be a lot more rewarding than the last game, and make things a little more cruel.
I was sold the moment it was announced, but this developer diary, promising an Overlord with balls (in more ways than one), is really getting me excited. Hit the jump for the video, and check out the two screens Codies sent to us.
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The original Overlord was trite and at it's worst boring. Every overdone joke caused me to writhe in pain. Then again, King Bluexy can't be expected to enjoy every commoners game. :P
Well, maybe this time around the Overlord will actually be as bad-ass as the game wanted you to believe he was instead of some bitch that couldn't do shit without his minions.
I enjoyed the first one, I just hope they take the time to really polish this one before release. The first one had a bit too many rough edges (jerky animation, clipping issues).
I love OverLord, I can't wait for the sequel, however if there was one thing missing, or under-done was the Evil aspects.
It had some fantastic ways of making you chose a morality, but without realising you were choosing. I'd like to see more of that, as well as more of the same humour - the minions were brilliant because they'd end up doing something unexpected... I want to see them doing crazier stuff in the future!
Also I was saddened that the slave-girls you collected in the first weren't dressed for the part. They just looked like they were going shopping, and some of the accents made me want to hit them. I'd love it if their appearance and voices changed as you did , becoming more evil, seductive, sexier... but that's just me... I like a bit of kink in my games ;)
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1:00 PM on 03.18.2009
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This game is going to be fantastic.
It's a good variant, instead of a good-evil bar, a destruction-domination bar.
The original Overlord was trite and at it's worst boring. Every overdone joke caused me to writhe in pain. Then again, King Bluexy can't be expected to enjoy every commoners game. :P
You get me a troll or an ogre and I'm in. :-P
It had some fantastic ways of making you chose a morality, but without realising you were choosing. I'd like to see more of that, as well as more of the same humour - the minions were brilliant because they'd end up doing something unexpected... I want to see them doing crazier stuff in the future!
Also I was saddened that the slave-girls you collected in the first weren't dressed for the part. They just looked like they were going shopping, and some of the accents made me want to hit them. I'd love it if their appearance and voices changed as you did , becoming more evil, seductive, sexier... but that's just me... I like a bit of kink in my games ;)