Overlord 2: Graphics comparison, system requirements and screenshots
Overlord 2 has been on sale for some days now. PC Games Hardware tests the game and present graphics comparisons as well as the system requirements.
Overlord 2: Engine
Visually Overlord 2 possibly doesn't set new standards, but given the ancient Roman setting it can nevertheless be called nice looking. The game is based on the enhanced engine of its predecessor. Although the graphics structure doesn't support FSAA, Overlord 2 applies some kind of Anisotropic Filtering in high settings. Nvidia's Physx is integrated, too - but only the CPU version.
Overlord 2: Graphics comparison
If the video options are set to low quality you will have to face washy textures and a low richness of detail. Furthermore objects are masked with a grey pixel fog at a certain distance. The visual quality increases when the settings are increased of course: Shadows become visible, the textures get better and light effects as well as reflections in the water are displayed.
With maximal settings, Bloom effects and distortion effects near fires are activated. Thus snow for example is visualized with a slight simmering glow. Depth of field and the high quality textures deliver nice graphics in the game.
Overlord 2: Background
In Overlord 2 you play the name giving overlord, or rather more his son, who is supposed to live up to the profession. With the help of your minions you prevent the Glorious Empire from destroying anything magical. The minions are your tools and quite nasty - the black, crazy humor known of the predecessor is back again in Overlord 2.
Overlord 2: The graphics
In our gallery you can find a lot of screenshots that give an impression of the new Overlord 2 look. With maximal details at 1,920 x 1,200 Overlord 2 is running smoothly on a 3.5 GHz Core i7 with 6 GiByte RAM and a Geforce GTX 280 - even in intensive battles the framerate didn't drop below 50 fps. On Windows Vista SP1 x64 Overlord 2 was running about 10 percent faster than on Windows XP SP3 x86.
Overlord 2: The external video options
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Overlord 2: Minimal system requirements
• OS: Windows XP SP2 / Vista SP1
• CPU: Pentium D with 3.4 GHz or appropriate AMD processor
• RAM: 1 GiByte
• Graphics card: Geforce 6800 / Radeon X1800XT
• HDD: 1.5 GiByte
Overlord 2: Recommended system requirements
• OS: Windows XP SP2 / Vista SP1
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo or Athlon 64 X2
• RAM: 2 GiByte
• Graphics card: Geforce 7900 GTX or Radeon HD 2600 XT
• HDD: 1.5 GiByte
• Creative X-Fi
Overlord 2: Demo Download
The multi-language demo version of Overlord 2 is 972 MiByte big and can be downloaded via the following mirrors or at the end of this article:
• Fileplanet
• Codemasters-FTP
• Worthplaying
• Gamershell
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