
The pack was announced to be in development on May 13, 2010. During development of Mass Effect 2, Bioware stated that downloadable content was becoming a fundamental part of the company's overall philosophy. Overlord was developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. Overlord also includes three in-game upgrades, which allow the player to enhance certain aspects of the game's weapons and armor, as well as two achievements. The Hammerhead has the ability to jump over obstacles to reach certain areas and is armed with a gun that the player can use to destroy hostile targets over the planet. There is a side-quest that requires the player to collect several data packs on the planet. The player can freely explore Aite aboard the vehicle and change squad members before starting a mission. To go from one mission to another, the player must use a hovering vehicle called the Hammerhead. It unfolds in a nonlinear manner and encourages planetary exploration.
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Overlord comprises a series of missions that take place in different facilities on the surface of Aite and that involve on-foot squad-based combat. Shepard is then given the option to either take his brother to a specialized academy or leave him at the station with Archer. Shepard succeeds, but learns that Archer had been trying to gain influence over a hostile race of networked artificial intelligences by interfacing his autistic brother's mind with the virtual intelligence.

Gavin Archer to gain access to the station where the virtual intelligence is kept in lockdown and shut it down. The player assumes the role of Commander Shepard, an elite human soldier who is ordered by Dr. Set on a remote Earth-like planet called Aite during the 22nd century, it follows the events of an experimental virtual intelligence that has gone rogue. Mass Effect 2: Overlord is a downloadable content pack for the 2010 action role-playing video game Mass Effect 2. In 2021, Overlord was remastered as part of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition.īetween missions, the player can explore a planet aboard a hovering vehicle. Overlord received positive reviews from critics, who praised its tense atmosphere and open-ended exploration, but criticized the Hammerhead's simplistic mechanics.

Its vehicle exploration aspect was designed to be similar to that of the Mako carrier in the original Mass Effect. Overlord features a new series of missions involving both on-foot squad-based combat and planetary exploration aboard a hovering vehicle called the Hammerhead. Set on a remote Earth-like planet during the 22nd century, Overlord follows the events of an experimental virtual intelligence that has gone rogue after a scientist interfaced his autistic brother's mind with it.
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It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in 2010, and is included in the PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2, which was released in 2011. Mass Effect 2: Overlord is a downloadable content pack developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for the 2010 action role-playing video game Mass Effect 2. Action role-playing, third-person shooter
