Codemasters’ comedic action-strategy games Overlord and Overload 2 are the latest titles to receive backward-compatibility support on Xbox One.
The original Overlord was developed by Triumph Studios and released on Xbox 360 and PC back in 2007, turning up a year later on PS3 in its expanded Raising Hell form. As Kieron Gillen put it in his review for Eurogamer, “Overlord’s probably most succinctly described as Fable meets Pikmin with Dungeon Keeper’s plot, with splashes of Diablo and Sacrifice.” Which sums the core experience up pretty much perfectly.
Essentially, Overlord combines good old-fashioned third-person adventuring and action with a real-time-strategy-like system in which you command your ever-increasing horde of minions to do you nefarious bidding – usually in the name of chaotic combat or puzzle solving.
Source: Eurogamer Overlord and Overlord 2 are now backward-compatible on Xbox One