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Play Overlord on Xbox 360 now!

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Demo now available



There's a minion horde ready to come tearing down your download pipe as Codemasters announces the release of the Overlord playable demo. The demo is now available from Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft; the PC demo will follow shortly.

In the demo, players don the Overlord's illustrious armour, assemble a team of fighter minions and head off for a session of serious destruction in the once tranquil area of The Mellow Hills. As you descend upon the unsuspecting populace and wildlife that reside in the hills, use your loyal minions to gather life-force from the somewhat unwilling sheep, grow the size of your minion horde, and let the Halflings-gone-bad know there’s a new boss in town.

Top that off with minion upgrades (where else do pumpkins get used as minion helmets?), throw in some peasant intimidation and a show-down with the Guard Troll at the Slave Camp and you’ll have just as taste of the havoc that a minion horde can wreak.

In the full game, players will be able to amass armies of up to 50 minions and select from three further minion types to lead into battle. Then there's the rest of the twisted domains to explore (and conquer), seven corrupt heroes to defeat, the Dark Tower to rebuild, and the Legion of Terror and other spells to unleash as you strive to be proclaimed the mighty Overlord!

Get ready to explore your more despotic side with Overlord, coming June 29th for Xbox 360 and PC.


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Looking forward to trying this out, anyone got it yet? I'll have to wait til tomorrow morning cause I have a big night ahead!
Grabbed the demo, it's pretty cool, might get the game, although the minion “sweep” control is a bit annoying. You use the right stick to control minions, but most games use this as the camera, and I've got used to using the LS to move forwards and backwards, and the RS to move left and right, similar to in an FPS. To use the RS as normal, you have to hold the LB, would be nice if you could switch it over, so it's camera by default, and minion sweep when you hold LB.

It reminds me quite a lot of fable I must say.
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Grabbed the demo, it's pretty cool, might get the game, although the minion “sweep” control is a bit annoying. You use the right stick to control minions, but most games use this as the camera, and I've got used to using the LS to move forwards and backwards, and the RS to move left and right, similar to in an FPS. To use the RS as normal, you have to hold the LB, would be nice if you could switch it over, so it's camera by default, and minion sweep when you hold LB.

It reminds me quite a lot of fable I must say.
Definitley agree, its a great game and pretty funny but the camera system is really quite annoying.

I would recommend it though. Nice to see a demo that interests me in a game the C&C3 and Forza one did nothing bu both are actually great games.
Anyone noticed the voice acting is the guy that did the good and evil minions in the Black & White games? :D
got the full game yesterday, only played 10-15mins so far but i like it a lot so far, easy to control nice pace, looks good.
nice game bargain for £25/
not trued multiplayer yet but didn't see many people on it(pc version)