By Connor Sheridan
From : gamesradar ( http://www.gamesradar.com )
You can't keep a good (bad) guy down. After a few years of
absence - maybe he was trying to turn over a new leaf or something - the
Overlord from the third-person action RPG series of the same name seems
ready to return to his wicked ways.
Codemasters conducted a grand Twitter sketch teasing
news for the Overlord series earlier today, with an account of a solar
eclipse viewing party interrupted by reddening skies, quaking earth, and
an object crashing into the parking lot, all culminating in an image of
the Overlord's distinct spiky helmet. Not very informative, but I'll
still take it over a plain website with a countdown clock.
Codemasters did offer a little bit more color (if not much more detail) via the official Overlord account,
which has apparently been taken over by Gnarl, the cantankerous adviser
from the first two games. After grumbling about life on Earth and
smartphones for a while, the account pledged that it "won't be the last
you hear from us", as "evil always finds a way".
Speaking of evil, Overlord is kinda like Pikmin if it
starred Sauron instead of a cute little spaceman, all while subverting
the standard fantasy setting with some unusual moral quandaries. The
series also has a good sense of humor, largely instilled by writer
Rhianna Pratchett. She's currently working on Rise of the Tomb Raider,
so it's not clear if she would have time for whatever this new stuff
turns out to be.
The natural guess is Overlord 3, but you
never know - maybe it's a mobile game. Codemasters has done a few
mobile racers in recent years, and building an evil lair and ordering
minions around on an iPad sounds pretty good... as long as it turns out
better than Dungeon Keeper. The basic premise could work just about anywhere, really, since minions are big right now.
I
sent an email out to Codemasters to see if I could extract any more
firm details about what this social media resurgence means for the
Overlord series, but I haven't heard back yet. I'll let you know when I
find out more.
From : gamesradar ( http://www.gamesradar.com )
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