James Chalmers puts fairytale creatures to the axe in Overlord: Dark Legend on the Wii.
Overlord: Dark Legend is a prequel to the first Overlord game, seeing the origins of the hatred between Elves and Dwarfs. Much like the first game you control a newly promoted Overlord who is a bit younger, in fact he looks a bit like a student in armor until you upgrade.
It's a good change for the system. This type of game looks like it will work really well on the system.
Now let's just see if it sells.
It doesn't look great. By applying the well-worn Wii formatting trick of liberating much of the grandeur and personality from a game series to make way for some arbitrary remote-wiggling interaction, the English developers have apparently designated their target market as the sort of immature sadists who believe pulling wings from insects constitutes a pastime.
PlayDevil has posted a review of Codemasters' Wii game "Overlord: Dark Legend".
Here's snip:
"Understandably the Wii does lack graphical power compared to other next gen consoles and it would be unfair to expect anything on a par graphically with other Overlord games on different platforms.
For the most part graphics are acceptable with the fantasy setting coming across fairly well without being too absorbing. The downside though is that there are quite a few glitches in the overall presentation which does take away a fair bit of the enjoyment although does not spoil the game too much."
Huh. Lower score than I would have anticipated.
Disappointing score.
Looks like the Wii version doesn't quite cut the mustard :(
Let's be honest. With Media bias against the Wii the way it is this is an 8 on the PS3 or 360. Have to add points to most Wii games to get the true score.. Glad to see this got a higher review than Infamous also.. Hey if 1 review is all you need to call it bad i can take the worst infamous review and do the same
I think some people need to read that review... It was horrible and barely touhed on any gameplay../