Overlord surprised a lot of people on its release on Xbox 360, with its tongue-in-cheek story and RTS-like gameplay proving to be quite a success. After appearing on the PlayStation 3 in 2008 it's time for Wii and DS owners to get a taste of the minion-controlling fun.
Videogamer caught up with Associate Producer Dean Scott to ask him about all the important issues - like if you can use the Wii Remote to kick the jester minion.
Overlord: Dark Legend is a prequel to the first Overlord game, seeing the origins of the hatred between Elves and Dwarfs. Much like the first game you control a newly promoted Overlord who is a bit younger, in fact he looks a bit like a student in armor until you upgrade.
It's a good change for the system. This type of game looks like it will work really well on the system.
Now let's just see if it sells.
Level7: Despite great criticism from both the press and players sold the first Overlord game no huge quantities. Codemasters did however give the series another chance. Original developers Triumph Studios therefore carved up Overlord 2 to PS3 and 360, while Climax Studios was commissioned to program a Wii and the DS version.
It doesn't look great. By applying the well-worn Wii formatting trick of liberating much of the grandeur and personality from a game series to make way for some arbitrary remote-wiggling interaction, the English developers have apparently designated their target market as the sort of immature sadists who believe pulling wings from insects constitutes a pastime.
