Overlord
Overlord is an action role-playing video game set in an 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…
Overlord is an adventure developed by 4J Studios, released 26 June 2007 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Overlord is
Overlord is an adventure game developed by 4J Studios and released in 2007. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
You have been awakened, your slaves are ready to die for you and the villages will hear you name all the time, u have power to conquer all, you have power to be the strongest warrior, you are overlord! from the depths of the underworld you power will rise, or it will be from the sky? choose if you will be good or bad, sane or mad, the hero, or the antihero. You will have to make your own path to the glory, but you are weak, you wake up with only a few powers, and can be easily killed fighting with some humans, but you have slaves, you have minions! The minions will help you, they will die for you, fight for you, and even suicide to make you stronger, not because you create them with poor…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Overlord holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 158 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 23.5 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or Athlon XP 2400+, 512MB RAM and GeForce FX5900 / Radeon 9500 or above. 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. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Overlord launched on 26 June 2007, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma and The Darkness. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, The Darkness.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Overlord yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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