Overlord 2 Announced; Overlord Also Heading To Wii & Nintendo DS

Overlord was pretty damn fun. I got through about 75% of it before I said fuck it. It got way too repetitive toward the end. It also stopped being fun when you have to send a couple minions one way, a couple more another, and having a few to keep around you, all at the same time. Fuck that sand level too.

A few major requests here:

One, give us an item rack that can store extra weapons acquired on the battlefield so that if we do lose minions in combat, we don't have to start with all new crappy minions with no equipment.

Two, and this is absolutely critical: pay attention to the PC controls! You wrote the controls for the game for the analog sticks on the console controller. Those sticks return to the rest position when you take your thumb off them, thus stopping the minions you were directly controlling. On the PC, when you went to control a group of minions, you'd the "rest" position was the initial location of your mouse when you started to control your minions, not simply stopping your mouse movement. Do you know how hard it is to move your mouse to an earlier position with no visual cues on the screen to accomplish this? This meant that sweeping minions on the PC became a very tedious affair. Please, please, please fix this on Overlord 2. And heck, if you want to go back to Overlord 1 and fix it with a patch there too, I certainly won't mind.

Oh, three, make sure you get Rhianna Pratchett back for the story. Thanks!

Once again, Wii graphics that look like barf. This is getting old.

Great news, I thought the first Overlord was pretty fun, sweeping the horde over things and watching them go crazy was worth it alone.

I must admit I am surprised. Overlord was cool, but I thought it didn't sell too well. Anyway, here's hope the "new Minion play mechanics" will add more variety.

Overlord is a really cool concept, but the fact that the game basically plays itself kind of makes it not that fun in practice, I found.

I'd kill some kittens for a new Age of Wonders on this engine their using.

Overlord Minions for the DS looks great. A puzzle / lemmings-type game where you use different minions abilities to complete the level within the time limit.