[JimMorrison]

Actually, I'll just toss mine in..... I'd bet Overlord was "fun to make".

However, for me at least, it was pretty enjoyable to play for the first couple of hours. Beyond that point, the game becomes a bit open-ended, and you get to spend a lot of time running (slowly) back and forth, trying to figure out where there is something that you can do.

When you get frustrated with that, and find a Walkthrough just to tell you which mission to do next (you may have 5 available, but 3 of them may actually REQUIRE something from another you haven't yet done), then you might find that the whole game is actually very disappointing in scope.

It's fun at first, then it's disappointingly slow for how disappointingly small it is. It's truly a poor game that rather than just hang it up and come back to it later when I got frustrated, I just shook my head and deleted it.

Oddly, I still have AoW2SM installed on this machine. >.>


I think it's easy for a game like Overlord to get good reviews. Most reviewers don't play a game for a week before starting to type. If you can keep their interest for a few hours, and ignite their imagination as to how good your game COULD be, then people will make it look great. But really, how many people love it a year later? That is the test of popularity.