At the start of the game only five minions can be summoned at once as the game progresses this can increase to a maximum of fifty.

The player needs to pay life-force, which can be gained by killing creatures, like large bugs, to summon minions. Minions are summoned from the spawning pits found scattered throughout the game. Browns are melee fighters, blues can revive defeated minions and swim, reds throw fireballs at enemies, can put out fires and are immune to fire attacks, and greens backstab enemies and can clear poisonous gas and plants. There are four minion races, each of which have their own colour and abilities. Each one represents one of the seven deadly sins. The game centers on simultaneously controlling the Overlord and an army of goblin-like minions to traverse the 3D gameworld and defeat the seven heroes who slew the Overlord's predecessor, and who have since been corrupted by power. The game also uses dark humour, and is a satirical parody of the traditional fantasy setting and plot. While the Overlord is controlled in a third person perspective, the way minions are controlled brings elements of real-time strategy and upgrades bring those of role-playing games. or really evil', where certain actions and choices affect different aspects of the story and gameplay. The game features a corruption feature, similar to that of the Fable games, but allowing the player to 'be evil. The player must defeat seven corrupt ruling heroes in order to reconquer the lands and establish his lordship over its inhabitants. Overlord is set in a alternate world, where the player takes the role of a resurrected warrior known as 'The Overlord' who has control over hordes of gremlin-like creatures known as 'Minions'. A sequel for all three systems entitled Overlord II was announced the same year on 13 August along with a spin-off for the Wii entitled Overlord: Dark Legend and a Nintendo DS game called Overlord: Minions. A PlayStation 3 version of the game also entitled Overlord: Raising Hell was released in 2008 in Europe on 20 June and 24 June in North America, which included both the original game and its downloadable content. An expansion pack entitled Overlord: Raising Hell was announced on 1 November 2007 and released 15 February 2008 along with additional multiplayer maps and a local split screen co-op mode. After over a year and a half of development, its release in 2007 was met with generally favourable reviews, and helped boost overall sales for Codemasters that year. The former two versions of the game were released in North America on 26 June 2007, in Europe on 29 June and Australia on 6 July 2007.ĭevelopment on the game began in early 2006 and the game was announced in May of the same year, with gameplay demonstrated at E3 2006. Overlord is an action role-playing video game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Codemasters for Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Linux and PlayStation 3.

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