Overlord Preview

CVG is the latest website to offer up a hands-on preview of Codemasters and Triumph Studios’ Overlord.

Of course, the minions are Overlord’s biggest draw. You slowly gain the ability to control more and more of the things, moving on from simple brown minions to specialised ones. Red minions are impervious to fire and can launch fireballs, green minions are stealthy assassins and blue minions can heal and revive their dead friends.

Run them through some furniture and crates with a sweep of the mouse and they smash and destroy everything in their path. They’ll pick up useful debris like pots to use as helmets, or wood to use as weapons, or if they find gold or healing potions, they’ll run back to offer it to you with a raspy-voiced (and startlingly enough, not annoyingly repetitive): “For yoooouu!”