Overlord will take place across five areas on a single planet. Shepard and his crew of would-be heroes are on a mission to take out a rouge A.I. in a Cerberus research facility. The trouble starts when scientists try to fuse a human with an A.I. The result is a homicidal being that takes control of all technology within several bases in a desperate attempt to free itself.

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Ah, villainy. A sacred and necessary vocation. After all, if there’s no antagonist, what’s the protagonist supposed to do all day, stay at home growing crops, raising animals and making friends with the neighbors? Inconceivable! Even when that situation arises, some ill-intentioned individual pops up and turns some earth goddess to stone.

While players typically rejoice after vanquishing a particularly evil and challenging nemesis, it isn’t uncommon to have a soft spot in your heart for the baddie. After all, he’s just doing his job. Maintaining balance and such. Plus, he represents a way of life people don’t get to experience.

Perhaps this is why gamers enjoy games where the villain is the star. For a brief moment, players get to see how the other side lives by vicariously living through an evil-doer who can be bumbling, sympathetic, humorous or down-right nasty.

So today, Gamertell’s going through, in no particular order, 10 games where players get to ditch their consciences and let loose, if only for a little while…

It was such a great time to be a villain back in 2007, when Overlord was released for the Xbox 360 or PC. Now that fun can return with the Codemaster’s release of Overlord: Raising Hell for the PS3. This new version of the title, which should be out during Q2 2008, will feature the original Overlord game as well as the expansions and add-ons.