Overlord: Fellowship of Evil Minion Customization and Co-op Gameplay Explained

Publisher and developer Codemasters has put together a new trailer for the upcoming co-op title Overlord: Fellowship of Evil. It's done in the form of an old WWII propaganda film, showcasing some of the minions you'll be controlling in the upcoming game.

Browns, reds, blues, and greens are among the minions you'll control, and the only things that stand between you and your enemies. As Overlord, your job will be to provide them with carnage to cause and loot to carry. 

The studio has also put up a new blog post answering fan questions about the game. 

Fellowship of Evil lends itself to being both a solo or cooperative tale that doesn’t forget to invite the minions.

For the first time players will have the choice to invite other players into their game offering a compelling competitive and also cooperative gameplay, where players can collectively experience the different play styles that the four Netherghūls have to offer while commanding hordes of rampaging minions.

The studio also goes into some detail about how Overlord: Fellowship of Evil actually plays. 

In terms of co-op, from an early point, we thought about how many co-op games only really “work” in multiplayer, but in an Overlord game, as players have minions, they can use them to fulfil the typical co-op roles. In effect, even in solo play, you’re never alone. This seemed like a unique opportunity to make a game that’s as fun for solo players as it is in co-op.

The team are huge fans of games like Towerfall, Samurai Gunn, Rocket League… We play these games in local co-op every lunchtime. These experiences made us believe that if we were going to do co-op, we wanted it to work in same-screen as well as online. This works well with Overlord’s humour; like when you watch a comedy movie alone, versus with 4 people on the same couch.

The post also describes how you'll be able to customize the minions you summon. 

The Netherghūls do not take kindly to being dressed in anything other than the armour in which they met their dastardly demise. However Minions will happily serve their master with an abundance of wacky and bizarre masks and hats that have been made for them by their very own tailor, Grub.

Our Netherghūls can wield a variety of weapons that are purchased from Ricket the weaponsmith and you can upgrade your Netherghūls as the game goes along, acquiring more powerful variants of their abilities.

The minions work differently. Players gain the ability to summon all four minion colours very early in the game. After that, players can upgrade them by spending loot found during quests. The upgrades are colour-specific, so for example, brown minions will eventually gain an upgrade that allows them to taunt enemies for tanking purposes. Players can focus on upgrading one minion colour, or instead spread their loot around all four colours, two colours, or any combination they wish.

The game is slated for release on the PC, Xbox One and PS4. No release date has been announced.