Overlord, coming this summer for the 360 and PC, places you in
the iron-clad boots of the game's eponymous main character.
Looking like the winner of a Sauron-look-alike contest, you'll
set out from the ruins of the last Overlord's "Dark Tower" to
commit acts of horror against the shockingly-similar-to-Middle-
earth medieval world around it. Using a familiar fantasy setting
to set up the game's black parody makes the humor very
accessible, but after a few hours of sending goblin-like minions
to do your evil bidding, it feels like the humor leaves the
source material so far behind the parody stumbles. That said,
we're still excited to go pillaging after a few hours of hands-
on with an early version of the game.  Lord of the Minions
Starting off with control over a horde of the "browns," the most
basic melee minion, you teleport from your tower to an idyllic
medieval setting. Slaughtering a group of sheep gives you a few
bits of life energy to use, which lets you summon some more
browns. Eventually, the minion