THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Eel O'Brian on September 26, 2006, 05:41:41 PM
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Apparently I have somehow gotten on the Codemasters email list. They sent me this:
Overlord newsletter - It's fun to be evil
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http://www.codemasters.com/overlord
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Discover how corruptible you are in Overlord, the forthcoming twisted
fantasy action adventure where players can be evil (or really evil).
Now in development at Triumph Studios, Codemasters will publish
Overlord in summer 2007 for PC and the Xbox 360(tm) video game and
entertainment system from Microsoft. In the game's seriously warped
fantasy world, you can become the Overlord and get first-hand
experience of how "absolute power corrupts absolutely". You could be
a regular run-of-the-mill Overlord. However, with incredible power at
your disposal and a team of evil-minded impish critters, the Minions,
on hand to do your bidding, how will you resist the temptation to be
wonderfully despotic?!
How corrupt you become depends on how you handle any given situation,
your actions and how their consequences impact the game world. For
example, if you and your minion horde dispose of a bunch of
particularly nasty, violent Halflings that have overrun a once-
peaceful village, the village's original peasant occupants will
herald you as their liberator. Now each time you pass through, the
peasants will welcome you as their new lord and protector, cheering
your arrival and giving you offerings.
However, as an Overlord, it's worth seeing what more can be obtained
from the peasants' gratitude. If you exert some proper feudal
repression, they'll tremble and fall to their knees when you're in
town. If you become truly mean, the poor peasants will resort to
cowering in your presence, pray for their lives and even offer up
their daughters in order to appease you...
"In Overlord you'll be able to do some pretty wicked stuff, however
everything is played out with this twisted fantasy humor, as the
game's visuals illustrate" says Lennart Sas, Director at Triumph
Studios. "Our goal is not to shock with realistic blood and gore, but
to create an entertaining world where people can explore what it's
like to have absolute power but in an amusingly gross way, not sick &
grotesque."
On the flip side to all this nastiness, one of the Achievements
you can aim for in the game is finishing 100% Uncorrupted. To be
an Overlord of purity requires not killing any peasants, not
harvesting souls from living creatures, not betraying your mistress
and not exterminating the occasional fantasy race. Now that's tough!
Go on, get ready to explore your more despotic side and perfect your
evil laugh with Overlord, coming summer 2007 for PC and the Xbox 360(tm).
Register your interest in Overlord:
http://www.codemasters.com/register-for-elerts.php?gid=1998
And click here to download the latest screenshots:
http://www.codemasters.com/games/?downloadid=23940
Happy gaming!
Rich Tysoe
codem@codemasters.com
http://www.codemasters.com
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Did you ever play that Evil Genius game?
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No, it got pretty mediocre reviews from what I remember, and my computer wasn't the greatest in the world, so I kind of forgot about it. Was it okay?
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I suppose for what it costs to buy it now its a better value than it was at 50 dollars lol. I didnt get a chance to play it either; wasnt willing to pay that much. If I find it cheap I might check it out.
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I can't see buying any PC game at $50, since it only takes about a month for the price to drop.
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You got that right, ill probably look for it next time I am at Frys, its probably 20 bux now.
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I saw the COD War Chest today, $50 for COD, COD:UO, and COD2, and breathed a sigh of relief that I didn't crumble and buy COD2 a second time for $50 (I own it on 360, but I want the user mods and maps on PC).
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Did you guys play the Evil Genius demo? It was kind of meh.
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Isn't it a dollar now, and downloadable from their website?
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Toxic: I dont really play demos, aside from GamesHell being decent, most demos get plopped on File Planet, which instantly means I am not going to bother. I think there's more checkpoints at fileplanet than a modern airport. I just wanna download the demo jesus christ.