I am faced with a bit of a dilemma. I just finished playing the demo for the new game Overlord. In it you play the titular character who must control an army of minions to do your bidding in your goal to become an all-powerful force of evil. It's Sauron meets Pikmin with a liberal dash of black humor. In other words, it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

I played both the Xbox 360 demo (available through the marketplace) and the PC demo (available online at Fileplanet and other places). I honestly can't decide which one I should get. As far as I know, the game is identical on both platforms in terms of content, so it comes down to price and experience. Here are the talking points:

• The PC version retails for $40, and the console version $60. I'm not sure how Microsoft justifies the price difference.
• It looks very nice on the 360 in High Definition, but it also looks awesome on my PC at 1600x1200 resolution (though I have some doubts that the frame rate will hold up when I have 50 minions running around on the screen). Still, I can probably get a better, crisper picture on my PC, but my 360 is connected to my beautiful Sony KDS-60A2000 SXRD widescreen HDTV (so I'm bragging a little--it was my Christmas gift to myself).
• I must say, leaning back and relaxing on the couch is more fun that sitting at my desk.
• My PC has better audio (4.1 versus simply stereo), though that's not a big deal to me at the moment.
  
• The 360 has those tasty little achievements, the collecting of which is an addiction in and of itself.
• Overlord definitely feels like a game you'd play on a console, with a controller. I thought the controller felt a little more natural, seeing as how a mouse doesn't really add anything to the control scheme on the PC (there's no cursor or crosshair like and FPS, so it basically just controls the camera). "Sweeping" your minions over the terrain (an action difficult to describe but akin to "driving" your minions with the thumbstick or cursor position) also felt more comfortable with the controller than mouse.
• Of course, the $20 I save on the PC version could be used to purchase the Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows which would allow me to use my 360 controller with my PC (if I had the corded controller I could just plug it into the USB port and save myself an Andrew Jackson).

How awful that such a decision would lay before me. Do I spend $60 and sit on my couch playing it with a controller in HD on a 60" TV with stereo sound on a 360, or do I spend $40 and sit at my desk playing it with a keyboard and mouse it at high resolution on a 20" LCD with 4.1 sound on my PC? Or do I drop an extra $20 and get the kit that lets me play it on my PC with the 360 controller?

Decisions, decisions!

Update: I bought the 360 version and am enjoying it immensely.