Mythical beasts such as minotaurs will be among the many foes in this one-to-two player game. There will also be quite a selection of cool sounding combat abilities, such as the power to summon man-eating lions or throw batches of venomous snakes. Great stuff.
Sounds like a promising little Wii game. I'm sure it'll be just as successful as the last one.
LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (February 3rd, 2010) –SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. are excited to announce a new project in partnership with developer High Voltage Software - Tournament of Legends™. Exclusive for Wii™, Tournament of Legends is scheduled for release in May 2010.
Tournament of Legends offers a 3D fighting experience for one or two players, featuring a host of fighters based on legends from world mythology: the Minotaur, a powerful Gladiator, a mighty Valkyrie and other well known and awe-inspiring characters. Take these fighters to epic battles in fantastic fighting arenas where the combatants wield legendary weapons, launch magical attacks and dodge giant mythological creatures that protect their lairs. Master a range of incredible combat moves; including unleashing a man-eating lion, summoning a deadly rain of arrows and throwing a nest of venomous snakes.
Tournament of Legends strives to offer even the most sophisticated Wii gamer a rich weapon fighting experience. Players will be able to switch weapons and enchantments with other characters, or compete in various Wii Remote™/Nunchuk™ controller challenges which include dodging giant mythological creatures, or restoring health and armour during fights. The game also features an Interactive Training mode and supports the Classic Controller™.
Tournament of Legends cinematic effects and graphics are fueled by the High Voltage Software Quantum 3 engine, specifically designed and optimized for Wii. Large 3D mythological fighters move fluidly while all fighting arenas, characters, and magical attacks are polished by advanced real-time lighting, blended animation, cinematic colour curves and more.
“Tournament of Legends is bringing a unique concept to Wii” said Gary Knight, European Marketing Director at SEGA Europe. “Facing off against these legendary characters is a powerful experience, while dual wielding the Wii Remote and Nunchuck makes arena fighting more intuitive and the face-off with your friends even more competitive!”
"With Tournament of Legends, we want to take Wii weapon-based fighting to a bigger place. Along with a wide selection of blade weapons and animated magic attacks we’ve achieved rich graphical effects and detailed, epic characters with the Quantum 3 engine. The mythological characters are some of the biggest 3D playable characters on Wii.” said Eric Nofsinger, COO of High Voltage Software.
Tournament of Legends is set to release in May 2010 exclusively for Wii.
For more information and assets, please visit www.sega-press.com
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3:40 PM on 02.03.2010
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Will all stages be long corridors?
On the bright side, IGN said that the game looks good and the motion control works surprisingly well.
Personally, I'm not that interested in the game until I see more of what it has to offer. I mean, High Voltage Software doesn't have a great track record so I remain skeptical about all of their games. Although, I like how their supporting the Wii with a variety of different core titles.
The Wii births shit like this. Fucking abortion style.
Case in point: Dead Space Extraction, which I beat in one night last weekend with my brother in law. Fun game (and I'm a huge Dead Space nerd), but definitely not worth buying.
I have to say, Gladiator AD does look cool, but seeing as I have a 360, I'll never get to play it.
No one seems to be been really excited about this particular Wii game, myself included. Besides, its not like the 360 and PS3 haven't seen their share of disappointing games such as Heavenly Sword, MAG, White Knight Chronicles, Dark Void, The Saboteur, and Army of Two to name a few.
I'm not sure how blind you may be (fanboy ?) , but the Wii does have some worthy original IPs such as No More Heroes, MadWorld, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and potentially upcoming titles such as Epic Mickey and Metroid: Other M.
ok cool.
/highfive
From the way people treat games like The Conduit as a benchmark for how much "hardcore" content the Wii deserves, you'd think it'd be an equivalent trade. Maybe the Wii should get God of War III, Halo Reach, and Splinter Cell Conviction, and the HD twins can try to prove they have a hardcore audience by purchasing "Tournament of Legends HD" en masse.
And, even if the game did sell well, all you'd get would be "Tournament of Legends HD: Darkside Chronicles" while the Wii would get Uncharted 3, Assassin's Creed 3, and Mass Effect 3. Fair trade, amirite?
I lost respect for you right after you compared The Conduit to Modern Warfare 2. You really can't be serious.
The Conduit would have most likely bombed anyway if it were released on the 360 and Ps3 especially given the heavy competition with FPS games.Quite frankly, the Conduit turned out to be an underwhelming cookie cutter FPS game. You can't really blame Wii owners for not wanting to buy it.
Wait until Red Steel 2 comes out. I think that game will sell quite well despite being a MotionPlus exclusive title. We'l also have to wait and see how the sales are for NMH 2 and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. TvC should sell well but NMH 2 unfortunatley could flop especially with Ubisoft's failure to market the game.
Looks like my comment went over your head.
I think The Conduit is pretty shoddy compared to Modern Warfare 2, and yet it's the sales of games like it and, say, Deadly Creatures, Mushroom Men, Dead Space: Extraction, Spyborgs, Darkside Chronicles, or even MadWorld that "prove" to industry journalists (and HD fanboys) whether or not a "core" Wii audience exists, when such expectations are completely unreasonable. Most people can't see that unless you turn the tables and show just how unfair it is.
And then when games like TvC comes out, the Wii doesn't "deserve" them. It's irritating.
So, when Tournament of Legends underperforms, I don't want to hear BS about how "It should have been on 360/PS3, where it would have sold" because no, it would have bombed there too. And, I don't want to hear it as justification for why Wii shouldn't get good dev support in the future, especially when Monster Hunter Tri releases, or Epic Mickey, or Galaxy 2, or Other M, or a plethora of other games.
The industry has invented this stupid image of Nintendo and the Wii, this ridiculous self-fulfilling prophecy about why the Wii "sucks". I like my HD games as much as anyone else (picking up Bioshock 2 next week), but this is getting pretty out of hand.
At least that's what I hope happened, because they totally compromised this game for Sega to publish it. So HVS better be getting full support for the Grinder, or they better start looking for another publisher and just forget about Sega altogether!
btw these guys are experts at makin the most generic, dull and forgetable game titles
the conduit, the grinder, tournament of legends, gladiator A.D.
are they even trying?
You really are a fucking moron you know that? "wa wa hardcore left the wii please make this game on 360 so I ca play it"
Just ask your mom, or mummy or w/e the fuck to buy you a damn wii already. They are fucking cheap. (although not as cheap as you apparently)
BUT SEGA messed this one up...
Damn, I love High Voltage...
epic rant, so true
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