PETA evidently knows about the baby seal clubbing in Overlord and is OK with it. Their justification? You're playing an evil character so it's expected you'd do evil things.
There are some new screen shots and a trailer for Overlord II showing off how players will kill the cutest, fluffiest, and sweet creatures ever.
Creature Crush the new gameplay videos,features some of the fluffiest, sweetest and cutest creatures ever to come face to face with a snarling horde of menacing minions (and being bashed to bits). As the Overlord, gamers direct their manic minion horde to kill, club or maim everything from cute garden Gnomes and seal pubs to pandas and even hippy Elves.
In Overlord II, players decimate an entire empire and lord over its citizens to become the new Overlord with a more powerful army of minions. Overlord II features the same great humor and gameplay that made the original a hit and adds a brand new story, clever new characters, whimsical new environments, varied combat features and a stronger, funnier horde of minions.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has a fairly well-known track record when it comes to video games. They inexplicably don't mind punting chickens in Fable 2, defenseless chickens that are no threat to your character whatsoever, but they have a big problem with defending yourself from vicious dogs that are trying to bite your nuts off in Call of Duty: World at War. What, then, would they say about what's going on in Overlord II?
Eurogamer writes, "Dutch developer Triumph has admitted being a "little too late" with downloadable content for Overlord, and plans to offer extras for the sequel "closer to release".
Codemasters announced today that Rhianna Pratchett has been signed as scriptwriter for Overlord II, the sequel to the hit twisted fantasy adventure from Triumph Studios, and both series extensions - Overlord Dark Legend and Overlord Minions - coming 2009.