A quick command sends some or all of the minions out to attack, smash, or grab whatever is in their way. The game takes place in an over-the-shoulder view of the Overlord, with a phalanx of minions following behind. In addition, the reds and greens can open up barriers engulfed in flame or poison, respectively, while blues can travel through water without drowning. Reds are ranged attackers, greens are terrors when attacking from hiding, and the blues can raise from the dead those poor minions who gave their all in the Overlord’s cause.
As play progresses, access to Red, Blue, and Green minions is gained, each with their own strengths and abilities. At first players only control a handful of Brown minions, the main fighters of the Overlords army. These little guys do it all they fight, they smash things, they carry heavy objects. While the Overlord character is perfectly capable of fighting and suppressing the land, it’s much better to command his horde of critters to do it for him. These little impish creatures are the backbone of the Overlord’s army, and also the backbone of the game play itself. To do this, players enlist the aid of those wonderful Minions.
With the last of his crumbling Tower’s mystical power, the Overlord sets out to bring the land back under his heel. The land’s heroes have all gone M.I.A, and it’s about time someone steps in and puts an end to all this peace and prosperity. The fun begins as players don the boots of the titular Overlord, a hulking, silent brute awakened from his coffin by a grizzled old gremlin. While this outing wasn’t as fun for me as the my first Overlord romp on the PC, I still had quite a grin on my face as I wronged rights, brought injustice to the land, and made sure those peasants knew their proper, lowly place.
That’s readily apparent in Overlord: Raising Hell, Codemasters’ expansion to last year’s Overlord, and the first appearance of those fiendishly delightful minions on the PS3.
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