Overlord: Dark Legend is a 2009 third-person action-adventure game developed by Climax Studios and published by Codemasters for the Wii.It will be a continuation of the 2007 video game Overlord, released for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
Gameplay
The player commands the overlord with the joystick and commands the minions by pointing the wii remote. The latter requires the player to press the B button to send them.
The "A" button orders all of the minions to return when it is held down whilts tapping the "A" button will only order a few minion to return. The overlord can attack with his weapon by pressing the Z button on the nunchuck or by swinging the nunchuck.
The minions can, after reaching a certain point, be picked up from the group and shaken for suicide bombing, or for fun as long as you don't shake them too much; the brown minions explode with a huge impact, the red minions combust into flames which ignites all enemies within range, the green minions explode to make a poisonous gas cloud, and the blue minions enchance all minions within range with the ability to auto-ressurect when they are next killed.
The overlord can also consume his minions in order to rerstore his own health and mana.
Furthermore, the player can click the A button on minion spawnpits after unlocking the appropiate minion hives in order spawn minions of the corresponding colour. The different minions and spells can be selected with the d-pad of the wii remote.
There can only be one spell selected for the up button on the d-pad at once. These must be unlocked by collecting certain relics.
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Development
Rather than a port of the original video game to the Nintendo Wii console, Dark Legend will be designed completely from scratch to allow a native Wii gaming experience and so the controls have to be redesigned to allow the players to control the character using the Wii remote.The player will not control the unnamed Overlord character from the original game (a hero turned evil) but rather a "young, new Overlord" (dubbed "trainee tyrant") which is "able to take his growing pains out on the local fairy tale inhabitants as he protects his castle and lands." According to Dean Scott in an interview with IGN, there will be many references to the old game even if the new game will not directly share anything in common with it. The goal, Scott continues, is to establish "the idea that there have been a series of Overlords throughout time".
According to Codemasters, the Wii remote will allow new, unique control mechanisms such as "pluck[ing] a minion from the horde, hold[ing] him by the neck and shak[ing] him around".Furthermore this allows the minion in question to be imbued with power from the Overlord and to turn him into a missile to be sent to explode within enemies. The minions themselves will be the same four types as were used in the original game (brown, red, blue and green) but they have gained new abilities, some of which are, according to Scott, "themed around bodily functions that childish folk like us find hilarious."
Dark Legend will feature a completely new story line, with new characters and locations. The story will be written by video game writer Rhianna Pratchett (daughter of famous British novelist Terry Pratchett) who also wrote the story for Overlord.
Story
Overlord: Dark Legends follows the story of one of the previous Overlords. On his sixteenth birthday a young prince, receives a mysterious gauntlet from the castle's cheif as a present, that has been kept in storage till his birthday.
Characters
Lord Gramgard - The main character and overlord of the game. Gramgard's siblings hate him and as stated by Grenville "Do try to mutilate yourself horribly".
Gerda - Lord Gramgard's evil older sister. At the beginning of the game she leaves to the Golden Hills. She has many trophies in her room until they were destroyed by Gramgard. Gerda prefers to be around Dwarves.
Grenville - Lord Gramgard's evil older brother. At the beginning of the game he leaves to Illirium. His room is destroyed by Gramgard's minions. Opposed to Gerda, Grenville prefers Elves to Dwarves.
Black Baron -
Rollick - The Castle's loyal cheif. He presents Gromgard with the overlord gauntlet on his sixteenth birthday.
Plot
On his sixteenth birthday a young prince, receives a mysterious gauntlet from the castle's cheif as a present, that has been kept in storage till his birthday. While his brother and sister are away, he uses the gauntlet to open the sealed room to the throne room. Gramgard, then finds the Castle Heart, and the Overlord armor awaiting someone to take the place as Overlord. After the armor has attached itself to the young lord, Gnarl, the minion master, awakens and tells the young lord, that he has been asleep waiting for him to take his role as the new overlord. As a start to his rane as the overlord, his first task is to take control of the castle while his evil brother and sister are away. The young lord ascends the castle to his