Save System: Checkpoints

Review
Pros
1. Some decent work done in music section.
2. Map - Overlord finally gets map but since this game has straight forward areas you will hardly find any need to use it.
3. A new gameplay feature where at certain points you can swap into a minion's body.

Cons
1. Camera - Most of the action happens offscreen. There are 2 camera angles, default being third person and second is over the head view which is good to see down. Problem is that your enemies especially bosses have higher ground and camera hardly captures them. How are you supposed to beat something you can't even see? So for the most of the time you fight with camera rather than enemies.
2. Infrequent savepoints - There is absolutely nothing funny about repeating your 20-30 mins of progress after you did something silly. 20-30 mins when you know exactly what you need to do, it's more when you are playing through the level for first time. At least in PC you can minimise the game, hibernate the system and resume later from same point(though I faced no audio issue once by doing so) but you don't have any such option in consoles.
3. Not role playing anymore - While there are choices to make at certain times but they hardly matter.
4. Strategies don't matter, Overlord 2 is more about brute force action gameplay.
5. Spells - The only time I used a spell was when it was mandatory and I still struggled using them. There are only 3 spells and they are assigned to X, LT + X, RT + X where hold and single press may do different things. I won't be surprised if I am wrong, there could be more. So not only they removed 12 different spells from previous game which had their importance strategically and for fun but they also made them difficult to use. Spells were earlier neatly assigned to D-pad from where you select the spell you want to perform and then simply press 'X' to perform it.
6. Poor upgrades - The only item I forged was one weapon. I also spent some resources on upgrading minions. Once again a good thing from first overlord is messed up.
7. Hardly funny - Someone really lost their sense of humour.
In short Triumph Studios screwed up everything that was good about this game while retaining poor things.

Review
Pros
1. You have to select difficulty before every event. You can only beat the game if you play more than half of the races on hardest difficulty. But you can't just beat evey event on hard. You must select right difficulty depending on your access to good vehicles and other factors. On the downside, when there is a game that doesn't interests you(which Fuel won't for most of the peoples), there are two options leave it or quickly get rid of it by playing on a lower difficulty. As you can see one of these two options won't be available and most of people won't even finish a single playthrough.

Cons
1. The AI opponents in the last segment of every race will either slow down to let you win or speed up more than actually possible. By doing this they correct their time to finish the race. So while you believe that you are playing sprint/circuit races(the only two types of events in the game) you are actually playing a time trial. You are winning by the lead of 200+ metres and suddenly a herd comes running at 500+ kmph, thrashing you like a bug and stealing your victory.
2. More of a scripted experience - At the beginning of the race 3-4 opponents will drive at unimaginable speeds for few seconds and then perform near perfect for some time and then finally slowing down towards the end. So in the beginning there is a huge difference between you and 'opponent at first position' but later you may win by several seconds. All this to give the feel that you pulled off something near impossible. What devs don't understand here is that you will reset the game long before it even finishes, getting stuck in races you were actually performing good. Also, manytimes few of your opponents will plant themselves at exact same point where you are most likely going to end up. It's all scripted.
3. Music - One theme playing all the time, really? It's good you can reduce music volume to zero.
4. Quite a big open world area but it looks same. Also, you start the race from menu even if you travel to the start point.
5. Graphics are okay but at times really terrible.
6. Only two types of events and not many races either but you need to play few races twice. Beat them on normal first and later when you have experience and fuel to buy better vehicles then beat them on hard to unlock more events.
7. Cruel AI - You are like a mouse running inbetween lions, you better stay away beacuse no matter who crashes into whom, it will be always you who will be slayed.

Save System: Manual Save at save locations.