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Overlord Dark Legend for the Wii

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flipping_heck

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http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/898/898651p1.html

Overlord Dark Legend for Wii
It's kind of like Pikmin, except you control evil minions and wreak havoc upon the land.
by Matt Casamassina

US, August 13, 2008 - Publisher Codemasters on Wednesday revealed to IGN that is planning to release a new take on its popular Overlord franchise exclusively for Wii. The title, built from the ground up for Nintendo's system by Climax Studios, is called Overlord Dark Legend and is set for a 2009 release. Players control a young, new Overlord as he takes control of his evil minions. The "trainee tyrant" will, according to Codemasters, "be able to take his growing pains out on the local fairy tale inhabitants as he protects his castle and lands."

Dark Legend will feature an original tongue-in-cheek storyline penned by award-winning games author Rhianna Pratchett, and is set to include a host of old and new franchise-favorite characters, including Halflings, trolls, elves and dwarves, as well as new wicked witches, gingerbread men, and Lil' Red Riding Hood, "the seeming sweet girl with a very personal lupine secret."

Become the Overlord and control your minions with the Wii remote.
The Overlord franchise sparked to life on Xbox 360 in 2007 and immediately drew comparisons to Nintendo's own Pikmin because the main character, although very different from Captain Olimar, controlled his squad of minions around the world very similarly to the way Olimar did the Pikmin. Players used the second analog stick to move the Minions about like a wave.

Of course, Overlord Dark Legend will make full use of the Wii remote to further enhance the experience. According to Codemasters, the Wii remote enables "unprecedented control over the minions." Using the controller, gamers can pluck a minion from the horde, hold him by the neck and shake him around, "throttled to imbue him with some Overlordly power and turn him into a manic minion missile." Now charged with an explosive body, the in devilish critter can be guided into enemies with "hilarious, if rather fatal, consequences."

Pillage villages and kill anybody who crosses your path.
Overlord Dark Legend sounds very promising to us. For more details, we chatted with Codemasters' Dean Scott, who is serving as associate producer on the project. Here's what he had to say:

IGN: Will Overlord Dark Legend be a port or an all-new game for Wii?

Dean Scott: It's an all new game, designed especially for Wii. New story, new characters, new gameplay. It doesn't make sense to try and port the old version, when the Wii gives you an opportunity to make something that works very differently. The key difference is in how you play it. You point, and the minions go and break and kill things. It's a very literal connection for the player.

IGN: How is Overlord Dark Legend related to the first Overlord game?

Dean Scott: There are lots of subtle connections for Overlord-savvy gamers, but in the lineage of the series the events take place before the original game. So certain things you do set up events featured in the other games. It's not the same Overlord though. We're setting up the idea that there have been a series of Overlords throughout time.

IGN: What can you tell us about the story?

Dean Scott: It's part fairy tale, part classic fantasy, and all hilarious. Obviously we've twisted the fairy tale stuff around, because it wouldn't be an Overlord game without a load of black humor. So instead of helping Little Red Riding Hood find her grandma, you'd be helping the wolf shop for granny-friendly sauces. That's not actually in the game, but you get the idea.

IGN: Any new minions?

Dean Scott: It's the same four minion types, but we've given them new abilities. Some of these may be themed around bodily functions that childish folk like us find hilarious. We'll be revealing more from GC Leipzig.
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Linkhero1

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goldenpp72 said:
not bad looking for a wii port.
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IGN: Will Overlord Dark Legend be a port or an all-new game for Wii?

Dean Scott: It's an all new game, designed especially for Wii. New story, new characters, new gameplay. It doesn't make sense to try and port the old version, when the Wii gives you an opportunity to make something that works very differently. The key difference is in how you play it. You point, and the minions go and break and kill things. It's a very literal connection for the player.
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Game sounds interesting. Is this the dark game they keep talking about?
 
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Ermac

Proudly debt free. If you need a couple bucks, just ask.
Looks sweet. The original Overlord was an awesome little gem that too many people missed out on.

Yay third partees on Wii!
 
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hokahey

Member
See, this game is indicative on the Wii audience and the non gamer mentality of....


oh wait.



Sounds fantastic.
 
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Shaheed79

dabbled in the jelly
goldenpp72 said:
not bad looking for a wii port.
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You didn't read anything up there did you? It's ok those are the sacrifices of being first reply.

Didn't this game bomb when it came out last year? Maybe they think they'll have better luck on Wii.
 
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flipping_heck

Member
Ermac said:
Looks sweet. The original Overlord was an awesome little gem that too many people missed out on.

Yay third partees on Wii!
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I keep seeing the overlord game on the shelves and it does intrigue me a bit, just reading up on it and it being a Pikmin style-action game furthers my interest
 
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tegdf

Junior Member
Shaheed79 said:
You didn't read anything up there did you? It's ok those are the sacrifices of being first reply.

Didn't this game bomb when it came out last year? Maybe they think they'll have better luck on Wii.
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sold over a million copies
 
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BlazingDarkness

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Shaheed79 said:
You didn't read anything up there did you? It's ok those are the sacrifices of being first reply.

Didn't this game bomb when it came out last year? Maybe they think they'll have better luck on Wii.
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sold over a million
 
S

Shaheed79

dabbled in the jelly
I applaud Codemasters for trying to provide more mature rated content on the Wii. I'm guessing they didn't like their profit margins on the first game so a cheaper Wii version is ideal.

EDIT: It did? So what's the catch?
 
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Death_Born

Banned
Overlord II or Overlord Wii....decisions, decisions....

Well, I guess I'll just wait and get the one with the higher rating. I'm betting that they spent more time on Overlord II though.
 
goldenpp72

goldenpp72

Member
it looks almost identicle to the xbox version in terms of the environments, where as the sequel doesn't. It looks like a remix or something.
 
F

farnham

Banned
I saw the review for this on GT (was the 360 version)

i thought it would greatly benefit from the wii mote

Probably going to get the wii version

RTS on Wii -> LUV
 
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Ysiadmihi

Banned
Shaheed79 said:
Can I have permission to just club these people over the head with a DS fat? No?
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It really is funny that some people are in such a rush to hate something that they don't even bother to read a few sentences :lol
 
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Shaheed79

dabbled in the jelly
Willy Wanka said:
Overlord should work well with Wii controls. I may end up getting this and Overlord 2.
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Get both and make them form like Voltron. Overlord 2 has a fantastic visual art design and the Wii version will have the superior controls.
 
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schuelma

Wastes hours checking old Famitsu software data, but that's why we love him.
solid2snake said:
great to see that the Wii gets "ports" of the HD games like Dead Rising and now Overlord.
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For the last time, why don't you people at least make an ATTEMPT TO FUCKING READ.
 
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Narcosis

Member
schuelma said:
For the last time, why don't you people at least make an ATTEMPT TO FUCKING READ.
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Maybe they did....

"Planning tO Release a new Take on its popular Overlord franchise exclusively for Wii"


>_>
 
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justchris

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Dark Legend will feature an original tongue-in-cheek storyline penned by award-winning games author Rhianna Pratchett
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Wait, that's Terry Pratchett's daughter isn't it? She writes video game stories? How did I not know this!?
 
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ZealousD

Makes world leading predictions like "The sun will rise tomorrow"
The game sold pretty well on the 360, but a big reason for that is that it came out during the summer months when there was nothing else to play. The PS3 port's sales were fucking pathetic though.
 
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jonabbey

Member
ZealousD said:
The game sold pretty well on the 360, but a big reason for that is that it came out during the summer months when there was nothing else to play. The PS3 port's sales were fucking pathetic though.
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;-(

My wife and I *love* the PS3 version.
 
D

Drinky Crow

Banned
Fragamemnon said:
triumph went from age of wonders: shadow magic to this. What a travesty.
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this. where is my AGE OF WONDERS REVOLUTION?

the original overlord controlled just fine with a regular controller. what would waggle improve?
 
davepoobond

davepoobond

you can't put a price on sparks
overlord is good shit.

the PS3 port, while i'm thankful they had it, came out a year after the game came out on 360, so it really couldnt have had too many sales.
 
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