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Codemasters has thrown up an Overlord PC demo, and it's left a nasty stain all over their website. This one, which is where you can download it, unless you're too lazy, and prefer direct links (1.06GB).

Like its Xbox 360 colleague, released last week, the PC demo lets you throw on the clanky armour of an Overlord and order your minions around The Mellow Hills, gathering life-force from unwilling sheep, and perhaps giving your rabble a few pumpkin helmets as payment. There's also a showdown with a Guard Troll, to which you'll doubtless look forward.

The full game has been confirmed for PC and Xbox 360 release on 29th June, and is much as it sounds - a game about bossing your way through a fantasy land. If the demo isn't enough to keep you interested until then, why not read our enthusiastic hands-on preview, or play around with the "Desktop Minion e-toy" Codies has tossed into the Downloads section of its official website. That's what we'd do. If we didn't have jobs, anyway.

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- Release date 28/06/2007
- Publisher Codemasters
- Developer Triumph Studios
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drunkymonkey #1 5 years ago

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Hurray! Been really waiting for this!
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Dizzy #2 5 years ago

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Identical?

Worth downloading it again on PC?
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Verwandlung #3 5 years ago

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i've been downloading it since 10 Am 2 more hours to go....
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urban #4 5 years ago

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does it need pixel model 3.0 thingie?
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Mo0k #5 5 years ago

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Direct download not work for anyone else?
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drunkymonkey #6 5 years ago

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Seems to be down, Mook. Which is nice of Codemasters.
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JediMasterMalik #7 5 years ago

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Borkage.
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Verwandlung #8 5 years ago

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@urban

Minimum Requirements
- Windows XP or Vista
- DirectX 9.0c
- Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz or Athlon 2400+
- 512 MB RAM
- Graphics Card: GeForce FX5700 / Radeon 9500 or above
- DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card
- 2x DVD-ROM Drive
- 4.5 GB Hard Drive Space

Recommended Requirements
- Pentium 4 Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2
- 1 GB RAM
- Graphics Card: GeForce 7800 or Radeon X1800
- Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Card

Supported Graphics cards
- ATi Radeon 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, x1300, x1600, x1800, x1900, x1950

- nVidia Geforce FX5700, FX5950, 6600, 6800, 7100, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8800
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richardiox #9 5 years ago

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Codemasters servers all screwed up for the release of the DiRT (pc) demo too. Pretty good going! Maybe they should move into digital distro.
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fletcherr #10 5 years ago

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Why don't companies use torrents for demos ffs? Speaking of which, whatever happened to Eurofiles?
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Verwandlung #11 5 years ago

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because the temptation would be to big to download the whole game instead of just the demo?

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http://ww w.fileshack.com/file.x/10626/Ov...

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Mo0k #12 5 years ago

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Woo! Good job, Verwandlung!

Was hoping Fileshack would put it up soon - I hate to see my Mercury (Preen preen) account go to waste!

Edited by 1 at 11/06/07 @ 17:10
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barf0r #13 5 years ago

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Verwandlung: How does a demo being available via bit torrent make people more likely to pirate a game? Really don't see the link there.
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AOFanboi #14 5 years ago

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If it runs on a Radeon 9500 it only requires PixelShader 2.0 since that's what that card supports.
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YourMessageHere #15 5 years ago

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Yes, this is exactly what BitTorrent was originally designed to do, it's just also the best P2P tool as well. Plus, if the full game's not out yet, varying the method of download will not automagically allow you to play all of it. Nor does using it make you a pirate. Torrentism! =P
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Verwandlung #16 5 years ago

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@MoOk
you're welcome

@barf0r
nevermind

i'm going to try the demo

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skillian #17 5 years ago

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You will find this on torrent sites, just don't expect Codemasters to link you to it.
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Mo0k #18 5 years ago

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It's a fun game - a bit system heavy, I suppose, but mine is starting to err on the side of old.

If I get a new rig I'll certainly get the game.
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richardiox #19 5 years ago

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Can't find a decent speed on any download servers. Gyah.
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Freek #20 5 years ago

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Gamershell they're almost always fast.
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richardiox #21 5 years ago

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Not tonight they're not
I wanna max this bad boy
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UncleLou #22 5 years ago

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What's with the camera, it's so restrictive, it's driving me insane. Don't like the ultra-generic cartoon style and the clich� "we're so evil" humour, either.

The destructive environments are fun, though.
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Dangher #23 5 years ago

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Ack! This is driving me insane! How in the seven pants of Om would they NOT include the ability to reverse the y-axis of the mouse?! Demo ruined. Game under question. But yes, luverly, I got the option to configure my bloomin' gamepad of which I have zero, nil, zip, nada. Oi, people, get real, PCs are a VERY big market - don't slag them off, you'll just get burned.
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Dangher #24 5 years ago

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Quoting - Not tonight they're not
I wanna max this bad boy

Downloaded the bugger from UK servers vie Gamershell at over 600 KB/s. About two hours ago. Just look at my previous post.
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JediMasterMalik #25 5 years ago

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It's definitely not as evil as I was expecting. Freeing Slaves?

Control scheme's a bitch as well, my mouse kept cutting out for some reason.

Edited by 1 at 12/06/07 @ 02:02
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Dizz #26 5 years ago

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It's fun but I don't see it holding my attention too long. I'll pick it up later in the year probably, for a lower price. Not worth triple A title price imho.
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