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Overlord Dark Legend

is an all-new Overlord action adventure that has players taking the role of a younger Overlord. Growing up in the Cinderella-esque Castle Gromgard, this teenage Overlord soon discovers the power at his disposal and that he has the support of anarchic army in the form of the Minion horde. As he revels in command of the mischievously malicious and downright destructive Minions, our trainee tyrant heads off to take his growing pains out on the local fairytale inhabitants as he protects his castle and lands.

Designed from the ground up specifically for Wii, in Overlord Dark Legend the Wii Remote™ becomes a true extension of the Overlord’s evil will. Whether swishing the remote to sweep the minion horde into battle or pointing at enemies to zap them with magic spells and fireballs, the action is always intuitive and fluid. Players simply point or sweep the minions to their target and watch as they scramble over themselves to bring mayhem and destruction to everything they touch.

Ever loyal, but ultimately predisposed to violence, the Minions can also be individually picked up by the Overlord with a simple flick of the wrist and, by vigorously shaking the Wii Remote, throttled! With their volatile lifeforce excited and a now-explosive body, the impish critter is transformed into a manic minion missile that can be guided into enemies with fatal consequences for both sides, gibbering all the way. With different coloured minions exploding in different ways, even the belligerent bandits are in for a bad day.

With a story and characters that poke playful fun at fantasy cliché, Overlord Dark Legend will be published by Codemasters® on June 26th, exclusively for Wii.
 

Features:

• 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 Riding Hood, 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.