Direct from the “Minionstry of Information” comes this helpful Overlord II instructional video that teaches you how to be an “instiller of brown-trouser fear”.
GameStop is being overrun by multi-coloured Overlord minions, so the retailer is giving them away to folks who pre-order any of the three Overlord titles due out next month.
Meet the new boss in Codemasters’ Overlord II, who is nowhere near the same as the old boss.
Last Thursday’s Codemasters event had some major pluses and minuses. I’m counting Overlord II as a plus – and all three times the speakers blew out as minuses.
Brace yourself: Overlord wasn’t a great game. It was a good game—and it had a good idea—but style choices and control options and myriad technical flaws kept it from being the best evil experience ever.
Can’t get enough Overlord? Your problems will be solved come this June when three new Overlord games land on the DS, Playstation 3, Wii and Xbox 360.
Codemasters loved the work of Writers’ Guild Award nominee Rhianna Pratchett so much they bought the company! Well, they didn’t actually buy her, but they have brought her back to pen the stories for the next three Overlord titles, Overlord II, Overlord Dark Legend for the Wii, and Overlord Minions for the DS. “Writing for games is part alchemy, part narrative woodwork and part swimming in shark infested waters wearing ham pants, so it’s a real honour to be nominated for Overlord. The Overlord titles are fantastic creative projects and Triumph and Codemasters make a talented and supportive team who keep some of those sharks at bay,” said Rhianna Pratchett. “It’s a real pleasure to be back in the evil writing seat and taking the Overlord and the Minions to new lands and new adventures for the 2009 titles.”
Codemasters are to release a sequel to their 2007 minion-wrangling game Overlord that will pit the player-controlled title character and his chaotic army against an uptight, by-the-book Empire.
The original game challenged you to be either evil or really evil. This, apparently, was just not flippin’ evil enough to satisfy developers Triumph.
Game director Lennart Sas told Eurogamer, “Now the choices are between lawful evil and chaotic evil, which usually translates to either enslaving the population or all-out scorched earth”.
Major changes to the game include minions with proper names and personalities as opposed to just random flunkys. This will establish “relationships between master and underling” which frankly sounds a bit pervy. And evil. Definitely evil.
Codemasters unveils Overlord II [Eurogamer]
