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Overlord Dark Legend is a brand new action adventure steeped in fairy tale lore with sinister, satirical twists. Set in a time before the original game (Overlord, 2007), players step into the role of a new younger Overlord and revel in command of the most vicious, yet lovable little critters in gaming ¿ the Minions. Forming a unique rampaging army, the Minions are a demonic, slavish and loyal horde of imp-like critters predisposed to violence. No matter: they¿re always ready and willing to follow even the most suicidal order, whether it's raiding villages for kicks and giggles or hurling themselves at enemies in the face of kamikaze odds in the beautifully rendered game world. With a story and characters that poke playful fun at fantasy cliché, our trainee tyrant will be able to take his growing pains out on the local fairy tale inhabitants as he protects his castle and lands

This game is fun. Very fun actually.... but as soon as you get all your minions and are really ready to begin it's over. I finished this game thinking, "What a worthless waste of time. What a waste of money!" I'm rather bitter I even bought it. Definitely rent it before buying - you'll see what I mean. Over before it begins. Did the designers get bored or something? There is no point in buying this game. I feel like it's part 1 and game part 2 was missing from the package.

I had high hopes for this game. I had heard how good Overlord was on the Xbox, and bought this with that in mind. I knew they were different games, but thought I would be getting something similar. Unfortunately, it's much different.

In the other game, as I understand it, you can choose your path and decide how evil you want to be. Not so in this game. Here, you are "told" over and over how evil your guy is. But it never shows. You don't actually DO anything evil at all. Ever. I don't mind that much, but it seems really misleading.

The game is completely linear. There are no decisions to be made whatsoever. Just go here and do this, then go there and do that. It is a very short game as well, but I didn't mind, because the game is so repetitive. You will soon figure out that 90% of the game consists of just running around smashing everything. That's fun in a mindless way I guess, but gets old after a while.

You can buy armor and upgrades, but it is a bit of a joke what choices you have. There's really no choice at all. I wanted a deep RPG that I could really sink my teeth into. That's not what this game is. It requires virtually no brainpower whatsoever. I'd say it's a good game for kids, but if you're an adult gamer, your money would be better invested somewhere else.

I don't regret having bought it, but in the end, it just didn't deliver the goods. I'd give it 2-1/2 stars.

The game spends a lot of time educating you on how to use "Waypoint Markers" and the finer points of throttling minions. I saw no reason to use either 99% of the time. They're way more trouble than they are worth.

It seemed to have a lot of potential, but just never quite got there. Some people have noted that the story is "hilarious". It had a few funny moments, but I'd hardly call it hilarious, unless you are 5 years old.

One part I did like though was the peasant women who talked like rednecks. I couldn't help but laugh when I heard, "What's Gerda doin', hanging around them dwarves? Ain't we got any good men around here?" and "The way you cut down them plants, oooh! I was all acquiver!" Sounds a lot funnier when you actually hear it :)

PROS:

Nice Graphics
Okay story
Fairly fun (at first)
Simple, Mindless

CONS:

Completely Linear
Repetitive
Glitch makes it freeze sometimes
No Replay value whatsoever
Simple, Mindless

In short, it's a kid's game. If you have a kid who likes fantasy, Shrek-style fairy tale parody stories, this would be a good choice. But if you are an adult Wii-owner looking for a deeper experience, don't buy this. I'd recommend the "Metroid Prime Trilogy" or "The Conduit" instead.

This game really is a lot of fun if you have a good sense of humor. It's amusing to watch your minions hand you things saying "For the Overlord" and "For You, Master". Or picking something up, putting it on their head, dancing and saying, "For Me" or "That's Mine".

Essentially you're the Evil Overlord with a bunch of rat-like minions. While you can destroy things yourself, you usually order your minions to do it for you while your character stands nearby and watches.

Game play is relatively simple, even newbies should be able to master it quite quickly.

However, gameplay is really short. My daughter and I both completed it in only 2 days. I have no doubt that it could be completed in just one day. This was really the only disappointing thing about the game.

While I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't like the violence (For example, you can hold a minion and thunk it in the head to gain its lifeforce), it really didn't bother us as we know that it's just a game and not to be taken seriously. If you take it for what it is, a goofy game with weird destructive characters, then you'll enjoy it. If you can't do that, then you'll want to pass on this one.

I love the Overlord games. I was really excited to get one for the Wii because the PC version was giving me fits.

The game play is great, the story line is hilarious, the duration of the game is WAY TOO SHORT!

I beat this game in a few hours, even doing almost all of the side quests,what a bummer, I really wish I would have just rented it.

I definitely would recommend people playing this game, but rent or borrow it, its too expensive to buy for how little game play you get out of it.

The basic premise of Overlord is that you play the role of an evil Overlord attempting to restore your kingdom in a very Pikmin-esque fashion. Having never played a game in the Overlord series before, I was really surprised and drawn in by the presentation and storyline.

PROS:
+++ clever presentation and humor
+++ lush graphics and designs
+++ character designs are entertaining caricatures
+++ great voice acting with a provincial medieval Europe feel to it, similar to the Fable series
+++ effective use of the pointer controls make combat a piece of cake.
+++ lots of little side quests to focus on in addition to the primary game.

CONS:
--- Linear gameplay
--- The framerate stutters quite a bit in many points. Sometimes it gave me motion sickness.
--- awkward and unintuitive camera controls
--- motion controls, although functional, feel tacked on.

GAMEPLAY: The game is an action game with some light real time strategy (RTS) elements. Throughout the game you gather a small horde of followers that do your slightly evil bidding. Brown, red, blue, and green minions allow you to perform different tasks and can overcome different environmental obstacles. Brown are good at melee, red throw fire, blue can swim, and green can handle poison. The game plays a lot like Pikmin, except the Overlord can also handle himself fairly well in combat, unlike Olimar in Pikmin. You can use the pointer to direct your minions to attack or perform various tasks throughout the game, such as moving heavy objects, turning wheels and cranks, etc. You can also use minions to self-destruct themselves, sacrifice them for health, or for mana. All in all, the gameplay works very well and requires some lite strategy, but I'll admit I usually just swarm my enemies instead of actually using in depth strategy.

STORY/PRESENTATION: So the basic premise is that your small little kingdom is dying and you need to restore it. Parts of the story are progressed in game and others through a stylized canvas animated storyboard, which is very well done. Although you discover a suit of evil armor and an axe early on, the evil Overlord isn't all that bad of a guy. Sure, you're killing sheep, fairies, and halflings, but they started it! Except the sheep. They probably don't deserve being killed, but oh well. Essentially, the Overlord is looking out for his people and actually isn't all that bad of a guy, a dark hero of sorts. You meet some interesting characters in the game that are variations off of children's tales, such as an evil Red Riding Hood, evil Gingerbread Men, etc. The writing for the game may not be brilliant, but it is clever and definitely entertains.

GRAPHICS: The art style of the game is very good, and I would favorably compare it to the Fable series on XBox. Unfortunately there is a lot of graphical pop-in as you approach details in the terrain and frame rate issues are pretty common. None of these issues make the game unplayable, but they are noticeable. A few times the frame rate has been so erratic that I had to take a short break due to motion sickness.

AUDIO: I really haven't noticed the music much in the game. It isn't bad, it isn't good. It does its job. The voice acting stands out. The actors sound convincing, if not a bit over the top, but that is the style the game was definitely shooting for. My only complaint is that the minions say the same lines over and over and over again. More variety and less chatter from the minions would definitely have been nice.

VALUE: Based on how far I am through the game, I'm suspecting about 10-12 hours of gameplay out of the title. I'll probably come back to it a few times afterwards simply because I do enjoy the story and presentation. The game is strictly single player and has no online modes to speak of.

All in all, I really like this game. Fans of Pikmin or Little King's Story should definitely check this title out and I would recommend purchasing the game. For everyone else, especially if you are unsure, I recommend renting the game for a week and having some fun with it.