Overlord 2 Demo Review
July 20, 2009 by Amy Tucker
Filed under Gaming
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that Overlord 2 is already out. I realize that it’s been out for almost a month. BUT, I also realize that not everyone [including me] has bought the game and you might be interested in trying out the demo.
It took me five hours [don't laugh] to get this demo to a playable state. The first time that I installed it, it started right up-all happy and evil and stuff. The demo showed me just enough of the opening scenes to make me think, “The graphics look really nice!” and then the screen went black. I could still hear sound…but no sound.
My laptop exceeds the suggested specs so I figured I had a crap install of the demo.
I repaired the download and tried again. Still no dice. I finally deleted the entire thing, and started over. And I ran it in window and FINALLY the game worked and it was still pretty even if it was a little small.
The entire demo took me about 20 minutes. Instead of fluffy white sheep, now you have fluffy white baby seals…and occasionally really pissed off mama seals who try to eat your face.
The two biggest improvements are the ability for your minions to ride mounts and your ability to call “special” minions who have nifty special powers. Other than that, I didn’t see a whole heck of a lot that was different from the first Overlord.
But, I did only play the demo and who really ever does a review on a demo anyway? One of these days I’ll buy the whole game and do a real review.
If you want to play the demo-and I suggest you do cause it is fun-download the demo straight from the Overlord website.
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