Overlord II Comments by Kristan Reed

"Fusing elements of Sacrifice, Pikmin and wicked British humour into its deliciously dark premise"

British humour? From a developer from Holland? I know british humour is overrepresented anywhere in the world, but that doesn't mean the dutchies don't have humour. The germans on the other hand..

anyway, looking forward to overlord 2.

The 'British humour' is very deliberate - from Rhianna Pratchett.

This under rated franchise is much better than the over rated Fable franchise. I have no idea how anyone gave such a flawed and challenge adverse game a 10.

Looking forward to this though... Now, if only Rare would sequel another under rated game in Kameo, I'd be a happy bunny

Can't wait for this one. :)

I'm glad I purchased the original Overlord on it's release back in 2007, as for me it was one of the sleeper hits of that year and proved to be an enjoyable, charming, funny and lengthy game. Just looking at some of the screenshots of Overlord 2 the development team at Triumph seems to have really polished the graphics engine into something rather lovely. I like the idea of a debauched Roman Empire ripe for the conquering by the underworld masses!

I received the original game as an unexpected Christmas present, and was surprised at how bloody fun it is! I've had a few other games to play, so I'm not that far through it (I got the Green Minions last night), but I'm having a lot of fun with it. The Minions are hilarious. I particularly liked the Browns and Reds reaction to the Greens: "Ewwww! Greenz Smeeeeeeell! Poooooooo!" =)

This is going to ROCK : D

I bought the first one on the PS3 after EG's review, and absolutely loved it. It falls into the category that I call 'Sunday afternoon games' - games that you can sit down and enjoy for a few hours at a time, not worrying about finishing it too soon, just bimbling around finding all the little sub-missions and details that the developers put into the background. They're never games that blow you away, but they're the ones that you're always happy to spend fun, untaxing time with. This style of game isn't so common these days, so it was a real pleasure to find Overlord.

The design was great, the art style perfect, and of course the writing was excellent. I would love Pratchett's work on Overlord to be influential over other games writers, although sadly I think that too many developers are too set in their ways to notice that people like to smile sometimes when they're enjoying themselves. Even serious games need light moments to lift their tone, but developers are afraid of going off-tone in the writing, not understanding that a range of emotions can enhance the seriousness (or lightheartedness) of a piece. Pratchett's work on Overlord deserved the recognition that it got from outside the industry, it's just a shame that I don't think it has made much impression on developers.

"I wish my health had increased"

I bought Overlord on Steam a few months ago. Haven't finished it yet (kids) but am having a great time when I get around to it. What I like about it is its "RTS-lite" aspect (different units, etc without the research, production). I never got into the full-blown RTSes which is why this really struck a perfect balance for me.

OL2 sounds like it's shifting closer to RTS-classic. This is not good for people like me. I'll probably get it anyway : you have to support studios trying to make original games.