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I nearly passed up
Overlord: Raising Hell for the XBOX 360 when I saw it sitting on the shelf at my local Gamestop. The low price the game was being sold for however caused me to glance at the back cover description. After reading that description I was intrigued. Thus,
Overlord: Raising Hell became mine.
Basically I would be "The Overlord", while my army of overlord minions would be at my disposal to control them to do anything and everything I wanted.
My overlord minions though, they didn't look all that evil, in fact, my minions were pretty cute, and they reminded me of a clan of Golem (Lord of the Rings) like creature. Huge curious eyes, a small hunched over stature, and even their voices sounded like Gollum.
Overlord: Raising Hell started off pretty promising, and within just moments I knew this would become the game that I dedicated all of my free time to for the remainder of the month. My speculations were right. I became hopelessly addicted to Overlord: Raising Hell.
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The game started off with me (The Overlord) being risen from the dead to help restore order back to my dark castle. My castle is clearly in ruins, and I; The Overlord, need to do something to bring the castle back to its former dark evil self. Thankfully, I have tons of overlord minions to help me out.
Quickly after seeing my castle in shambles, I am taken to a mini tutorial inside of the castle. Here at the tutorial for Overlord: Raising Hell, I learn the basic controls of the game which are all relatively simple. However as soon as I learned how to control my character (The Overlord) I was then introduced to one of my overlord minions.
It turns out that I am not only in control of where the Overlord goes, but I am also in control of the overlord minions. I came to learn later on in the game, that my overlord minions are actually more important in the game than the Overlord is. The overlord minions are the ones who will destroy everything in their path, while the Overlord (although lethal) can be harmed much easier and faster than a clan of overlord minions can.
Basically wherever I go, my overlord minions will follow. Whenever I want, I can control them to run ahead of me, fall behind me, or simply follow me.
