Friday, February 20, 2009

Overlord: Dark Legend - trailer & tons of info



Designed and developed exclusively for Wii, Overlord Dark Legend is a brand new action adventure steeped in fairy tale lore with sinister, satirical twists. Set in a time before the original game (Overlord, 2007), players step into the role of a new younger Overlord and revel in command of the most vicious, yet lovable little critters in gaming – the Minions.

Forming a unique rampaging army, the Minions are a demonic, slavish and loyal horde of imp-like critters predisposed to violence. No matter: they’re always ready and willing to follow even the most suicidal order, whether it’s raiding villages for kicks and giggles or hurling themselves at enemies in the face of kamikaze odds in the beautifully rendered game world. With a story and characters that poke playful fun at fantasy cliché, our trainee tyrant will be able to take his growing pains out on the local fairy tale inhabitants as he protects his castle and lands.

• Seize the Power: Donning the armour of the Overlord, players become commander-in-chief of a fighting, thieving and pillaging horde of crazed minions (with hundreds more waiting in reserve) – a force quite unlike any other. Send out your minions to crush rock giants, gnomes, halflings, elves, dwarves, peasants and more. Become a new Overlord, conquer realms and grow your castle from dilapidated ruins to glorious expression of your absolute power.

• Pillage and destroy with the Wii Remote: Controlling the minions is slick and devastating, requiring a flick of the Wii Remote to send the raucous rabble into battle. Whether you’re swishing the remote to sweep the horde into battle or pointing it to direct magic spells and fireballs at enemies, the Wii Remote becomes the perfect extension of the Overlord’s despotic will.

• Throttle Your Minions: Individual Minions can be plucked from the horde, held by the neck and then, by vigorously shaking the Wii Remote, throttled! This stirs up the volatile lifeforce within them and they become a manic minion missile. With a now-explosive body, the insane little critter can be guided into enemies with hilarious, if rather fatal, consequences for both parties.

• A twisted fairy tale: With a rich, tongue-in-cheek story written by award-winning games author Rhianna Pratchett, this exclusive Overlord adventure for Wii tells a new and twisted fairy tale. The lead character is in a Cinderella scenario with his elder and rather unpleasant brother and sister. He is the forgotten child while his father is away, and his wicked twin siblings are plotting to take over the kingdom with their own perverse alliances with elves and dwarves. The story game also introduces wicked witches, gingerbread men and Lil’ Red, the seeming sweet girl with a lupine side to her personality.

• Meet the Minions: The Brown Minions are the fighters and the strongest minions in general combat. Red Minions are fire throwers and act like archers by hurling blazing fireballs as a long range attack. Green Minions are the assassins and love to use stealth attacks. Blue Minions are the smartest of the minions and have healing powers and can resurrect their fallen minion comrades and bring them back into the fight.

Looking great!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

the ball is rolling on true wii graphics

Anonymous said...

This looks prett damn cool! It really looks like 2009 will be the year Developers show what the Wii hardware can do...it makes me proud as a life long gamer and as a Nintendo Fan!

Anonymous said...

Nice! Sounds awesome!

Pillage towns and crush peasants...
Mhahaha! Some nice sandbox fun for the Wii. Thanks for the info and Video Dave.

Peace

Anonymous said...

has anyone else noticed the camera looks squashed up against the action in x360s overlord 2, yet the camera looks fine on the wii version theres a few moaning about it, its off putting on x360 so better cam and controls and close on the graphics sounds fine to me go check out x360 trailers see what i mean

Anonymous said...

I KNOW WHAT U MEAN M8 ABOUT THE CAMERA ON 360 I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH OVERLORD 1 ON 360 SOLD MY 360 AFTER HVING IT 3 MONTHS I THOUGHT THE 360 HAS ALREADY SHOWN THE BEST GRAPHICS IT WILL EVER HAVE SO WITH WII THE GRAPHICS WILL KEEP GETTING MUCH BETTER AND THE GAMES ARE MORE VARIED ON WII INSTEAD OF OVER CROWDING MATURE SHOOTERS,AND FIGHTERS,RACING GAMES,IT GET A LITTLE BIT SAD AND HARD TO FIND OUT WHICH IS BEST ON WII THE CONDUIT WILL BEAT ANY SHOOTER HANDS DOWN