Overlord Review @ CVG

Vikingod

Source: CVG
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Ever played a game called Pikmin? In case you haven't, it's a kind of strategy puzzle thing in which you control a main character using the left stick and make tiny little creatures do your bidding by sweeping them around with the right stick. The aim is to repair your base by gathering enough creatures to carry parts of it back through the levels you've explored, and you have to make sure you use the correct colour of creature to get through different hazards - red ones are resistant to fire, blue ones can go in the water, and so on and so forth, as they say.

So, apologies for starting a review of a 360 game with a description of a title on a different format (and one in the last gen) but we thought we ought to because Overlord is, if not quite identical to Pikmin, shamelessly similar. The setting is a familiar fantasy realm reminiscent of Fable, with a diverse set of regional accents, and instead of a little spaceman and tribes of squeaking vegetable people, you have a would-be evil master and a horde of goblin-like minions.