There’s a certain degree of battlefield micromanagement required in later battles, and allowing you to substitute one group of minions for another (especially under duress) is something that the control scheme is not particularly adept at. Unfortunately, you’ll feel like you’re not only taking on a menagerie of fantasy creatures, but also a difficult control scheme. The increased scale and ability of your forces is quite empowering, especially as you go up against increasingly large and threatening enemies. For example, red minions are able to throw fireballs at foes, whereas blue minions are able to resurrect fallen comrades. It’s not just their numbers that increase either you also gain the ability to summon different coloured minions that possess unique skills. At this point, you really feel like you’re orchestrating a small, chaotic army. Whether you require the minions to attack enemies, raze a structure or smash up the landscape in search of gold and other items, the minions always act accordingly with an intelligence that betrays their appearance they’ll even arm themselves should they come across weapons and armour.Īlthough you start off with just a handful of minions, their numbers increase to a maximum of fifty over the course of the game.
It’s also possible to set up sentry posts for a set number of the little guys, so it’s possible to block pathways that enemies might try to come down. In certain situations, it’s necessary to take direct control over the entire pack, and manually guide them through more complex paths. There’s a great deal of flexibility in controlling the minions by default, they’ll follow you around like a group of automated henchmen, or you can send them racing forwards to clash with whatever lays ahead. Whilst your silent suit of armour strides through the countryside, they bound eagerly into the distance, causing mayhem and destruction with such wicked enthusiasm that it propels you through the game, inspiring you to even greater acts of vileness. The minions are a horde of small demonic creatures that accompany you through the game, and are more than happy to do your bidding. Ironically, the Overlord is more of a herald for the real stars of the game: the minions. This lack of depth also extends to controlling him you’re limited to walking around whilst executing a simple weapon or magical attack. However, for all of his grandiose, the Overlord is something of a shallow fellow, barely letting out a guttural grunt when throwing his battle axe around, let alone speaking. A union of these two characters should also give you some idea of the game’s tone, and developers Triumph Studios have tapped into the kind of humour usually reserved by Peter Molyneux.
The appearance of the Overlord falls somewhere between the Witch King Of Angmar from The Lord Of The Rings, and the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. There’s a quick lesson in being evil through the medium of jester-kicking, and before you know it, you embark through the knowingly generic Tolkienesque landscape, ransacking villages, enslaving peasants, slaying corpulent trolls, rebuilding your imposing tower, and even taking a mistress to help you spend your ill-gotten gains. You take control of the titular Overlord who, at the start of the game, is woken from undeath only to be informed that his predecessor has been killed, and that the reputation of evil in the surrounding land is a joke.
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