Overlord: Raising Hell
Overlord: Raising Hell is the expansion to the 2007 action role-playing game Overlord, which adds an extension to the game's single player with new levels, plot, enemies and weapons. Along with an extended…
Overlord: Raising Hell is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by 4J Studios, released 15 February 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 7 hrs to finish.
What Overlord: Raising Hell is
Overlord: Raising Hell is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by 4J Studios and released in 2008. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Overlord: Raising Hell is the expansion to the 2007 action role-playing game Overlord, which was released for download over Xbox Live for the Xbox 360 version and online for the PC version, both in the German market on November 2007, and worldwide regions on 15 February 2008, alongside additional multiplayer add-ons. A PlayStation 3 version of Overlord was released in June 2008 including the downloadable content.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Overlord: Raising Hell holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 39% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium® 4 2.4 GHz or Athlon 2400+, 512 MB RAM and Any video card with 64MB or higher. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it launched against
Overlord: Raising Hell launched on 15 February 2008, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Devil May Cry 4 and Audiosurf. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Devil May Cry 4, Audiosurf.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Overlord: Raising Hell yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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