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Overlord II is the sequel to the hit warped fantasy action adventure that had players being delightfully despotic. In Overlord II, a new Overlord and a more powerful army of Minions take on the Glorious Empire, an advanced Romanesque nation, in a truly epic, yet familiarly warped, adventure. As the Glorious Empire conquers kingdoms and destroys any sign of magic it finds, it’s time to go Minion Maximus with a rousing cry of “Veni, Vidi, Vici” and send in the horde. The Minions return smarter, deadlier (and funnier) and are ready to fight in large scale battles that will see their wild pack mentality squaring up to the organised legions of the Glorious Empire. As ever, they’ll do anything and everything the Overlord commands of them, especially now that they can run ravage and wreck buildings and scenery. They’ve also learnt to ride: In Overlord II, Minions will be able to mount up and ride wolves and other magical creatures around the landscape and take them into battle, making our band of merry fighters faster and fiercer than ever before

This game is very fun for mindless, senseless minion violence. Like overlord 1, you control a gaggle (this number can be 5-50) of minions to do your bidding and wreak destruction upon the land.

Unlike the first game, this time the setting is in the height of the roman empire rather than medieval times. This game has made massive improvements over its predecessor including better AI, bigger battles, more enemies, and the ability to have all minions except browns not suck! Another benefit is minion health improves based on a rudimentary level system, that way minions aren't determined solely on the goofy junk they pick up from battles. Another thing is there is now more of a magic system other than burn things and make minions angry.

The downside to this game though is this: to get 100% completes it takes an awful lot of effort and time, you can't customize weapons and armor anymore, and the overlord tower is too big for the things that you want to accomplish. The last complaint I have is the enemies/bosses aren't as creative in this game as its previous title, plus there's no expansion pack to get where you can torture said bosses in a mini hell.

I would recommend this game to most everyone who plays games. it's smart, dark, funny, and a great time.

This is a rare game style, because not only are you the bad guy, but you are a seriously bad dude, and not in the same moronic way as you would in the Grand Theft Auto series. What I mean is that you play a Sauron-esque Lich-like creature with great magical powers of mental domination and typical demonic power. You are placed in a Tolkien-esque world that literally does not leave a single cliche out to make fun of. This game is by far the best game I have played and I own 45 games at the moment. I am not even a strategy style gamer. This is a light-hearted game with its humor but it is very sadistic as well. Probably not the greatest game for kids due to the crude adult humor and the whole murdering entire villages and ensclaving the human race, but there is not blood and it is light-hearted in that you are the most powerful being in the world yet you command a horde (up to 50!!) of what could only be called Goblins from J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy series The Lord of the Rings.

This game seeks to make fun of every cliche while itself plays out those cliches at the same time. It is just hilarious and sick, yet not too sadistic. You command up to 50 golblins who have the ability to either be a great fighter, great swimmer, shoot fireballs/immune to fire, or stealth/immune to poison. All of them are fighters, but the great fighters are by far the toughest. All others will drown except the swimmers, yet all will be burned except the fire goblins and all will be poisoned except the stealth/poison goblins. So you see, there is a lot of strategy involved. Each type of goblin is earned in a sequence and allow for progression. For instance, certain areas will have water so you cannot get by unless you have the blue goblins who can swim, etc etc.

A wonderful game and the secon din the series. This game is much more compatible than the first one which catered to Nvidia GPU's. All overlord games are intensive on CPU's due to the intense processes involved, so make sure your PC is strong enough.

5 Stars!

Overlord II puts you back in the evil boots of an tyrannical oppressor commanding a horde of bloodthirsty minions ready to wreak havoc on the local unsuspecting populace. As a sequel from the first game, there are some additions such as new weaponry, environments, abilities, and battlefield weapons like catapults. Unfortunately, the game also comes with its weak points. I found the game to be somewhat buggy and even worse, the upgrade system is complicated, expensive and time consuming.

Starting off with the good, Overlord II introduces a brand new campaign and a new lord to lead the minions. You new dominion brings you to some amazingly beautiful and detailed environments ranging from magical forests, to beautiful islands, to a magnificent coliseum. You get to face new enemies which require cunning tactics and even have the addition of new handy mounted units.

The story also brings the classic humor associated with being evil and a decent story line to go with it. In the game you will find some challenging puzzles to can be solved using a few different techniques and tactics. One addition I definitely like is the ability to bring high-level minions back to life, but unfortunately that tends to be more of a hassle than a benefit...which brings me to the cons.

Unfortunately, the game did not make any major strides in simplifying your upgrade and managing options. The necessary upgrades such as armor, helmet (with abilities), and weaponry is still costly, in fact even more so than before. Again, there is no direct way to go and upgrade them, nor can you simply find the upgrades on the map like your minions can. The same goes for bringing back your minions from the dead. This process is expensive and time consuming and to manage both upgrades, you might find yourself going back and forth to different areas of the map to collect the necessary resources.

In the game you are given some magical powers which you shouldn't expect to use often (with exception of the mind control power). These are also acquired and upgraded. Finally, you have the option of upgrading your own personal residence with some decorations which to be honest, I see no point in because you spend little to no time there. It's a bit of a waste of cash.

To be honest, I didn't finish the game. Not because I didn't want to, but because I couldn't. The game can get a little buggy with your minions and even with your own character, especially at save points. Towards the end of the game on the dinosaur/dragon level, I was unable to finish the game because of a bug that occurred when I stopped playing and resumed play at a later time. It was literally impossible to continue.

In the end, I definitely prefer the first game over the second for overcomplication, time consuming nonsense, and extreme bugginess.

If you are going to invest in Overlord II, make sure its in the discount bin.

Overlord 2 was disappointing after playing overlord 1. The plot was weaker, and their just weren't as many funny moments as the first game. If you get overlord 1, you won't be missing anything if you don't get overlord 2.

Pros:
* Better graphics.
* Game play.
* Really cool looking base of operations.

Cons:
* Less humorous.
* Very linear levels.
* Not as good story telling.
* Spider Pit level/puzzle(I almost gave up at this point).
* Mounts that aren't useful except when they force you to use them for a specific puzzle. I made it through the entire ending without using the mounts at all without trouble.
* No arena pit in your dungeon.
* Extremely large tower of evil that has loading zones between area's that you need to get to on a regular basis.

In summary, if you don't have the first overlord, get it. If you do have the first overlord... just remember that this one isn't as good.

Pros:
*The minions are hilarious. They really make an otherwise weak game a bit of fun.
*The aesthetics of the environments, including the Dark Tower are really well down. It's nice how the tower improves as you move along in your Overlording.
*Music is good.

Cons:
*A lot of the controls and game play suck. The "sweep" command in the PC version, at least, is seriously, seriously flawed and makes for A LOT of frustration when things don't work as expected. This is a really awful flaw that takes the game from being fun and challenging to needlessly irritating. This combined with the inability to save as you go (only at spottily available spots) makes for a lot of wasted time and anger.
*Bugs such as walking to close to an NPC and seeing his or her hair and eyeballs floating in front of you are rather stupid, but not so distracting.
*Enslaved peasants and plebs follow you to the point of blocking your way.
*The "auto targeting" system rarely works the way it should. It generally doesn't target what you are trying to target except by trying over and over and over again.

*Other than those two serious flaws the game is pretty fun. Just the usual amount of misogyny, homophobia, and racism that are in games made for psychosexually/sociologically retarded fanboys for psychosexually/sociologically retarded fan boys. Those with a brain could still enjoy the game while laughing AT the designers and the intended audience and rolling your eyes a lot. Well you could if the game was playable. Full of typical trite stereotypes such as environmentalists are gay, women are powerless whores and sex objects waiting for the man to come save them so they can be a spoiled mistress, and fat people are evil and funny at the time (how original!!).

Conclusion:
Perhaps this game works well on Playstation or XBox, but whoever ported it to the PC failed big time. Epic fail in the mechanics of how the game works. The game idea had some potential (playing the bad guy), but failed all around by falling back on tired stereotypes of fantasy. Nothing original or what might pass for a new twist on the old, boring ideas. Seems to be made by and targeted at immature 12 year old boys (no insult to 12 year old boys with a brain). Lots of good humor in regards to the minions might make up for the tiredness if played on other system, but not with the frustrations inherent in the poor programming/operation of the PC version.

Don't bother with this one.