High Voltage's gladiator Wii game dated

By Robert Purchese Published 3 February, 2010

Tournament of Legends here in May.

SEGA's stamped a May release date on High Voltage's new gladiator game for Wii.

And it's no longer known as Gladiator AD, but as Tournament of Legends.

Fight using characters from mythology like a Minotaur or a Valkyrie or even a gladiator like Maxmius Crowe. They each have weapons of legend, as well as spells and special abilities like summoning nests of snakes or lions that eat people.

Controls are based on dual-wielding the Wiimote and nunchuk. Last May, High Voltage said Wii MotionPlus would be supported to add variance to attacks. There's no mention of it here. We were also told that the game would be brutal and bloody.

We're promised a pretty picture thanks to High Voltage's Quantum 3 engine, and there will be mini-game variations on the theme to break up the action. Oh and a training mode, too.

High Voltage was the outspoken developer behind The Conduit, a multiplayer FPS exclusive to Wii. Our review of The Conduit can fill you in on the rest.

Head over to our Tournament of Legends gallery for a look.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • FogHeart #1 2 years ago

    Let's hope their great engine will be put to use in an interesting game this time.

  • KDR_11k #2 2 years ago

    Meh, I'd rather have Zangeki no Reginleiv brought to the west.

  • CallousB #3 2 years ago

    This looks worse than the original version they showed. What on earth have they done to it?

    The "Rage Of The Gladiator" Wiiware game looks better IMO (and certainly appears to be far more fun).

    They should have canned this and concentrated on "Animales De Le Muerte". That was far more appealing.
    Edited by 1 at 03/02/10 @ 17:01

  • wizlon #4 2 years ago

    Hmm. not to fussed about this. The Grinder may be worth a bash though.

  • Malek86 #5 2 years ago

    Screens are horrible. Soul Calibur 2 looked much better than this, and it's a GC game (so I can still play that on my Wii instead).

    I sure hope the final product won't be so bad. HVS was supposed to be all about graphics.
    Edited by 1 at 03/02/10 @ 20:02

  • Lusterpurge #6 2 years ago

    Yeah, I'm not sure what happened. I didn't think the Conduit was bad since it was at least fun to play, but this game doesn't look good at all.

  • SimonM7 #7 2 years ago

    They reeled in the gore following Madworld's tanking I suppose. I suspect they'll stop trying to play up the "maturity" of their games, and maybe concentrate on getting them to play reasonably well.

    I think this makes perfect sense in terms of putting the Wii Sports fencing into a more "gamey" framework, but like The Conduit this seems to struggle with its identity.

    Or perhaps, struggle in absence of one.

  • swissorc #8 2 years ago

    Thisa game looks soo lame and sadly unless the grinder can be played in full effect single player with AI bots wont buy that either as I dont do online co op.

  • BonzoBanana #9 2 years ago

    The conduit was a massive disappointment so its hard to get too enthusiastic. The conduit visually was if anything worse than black on the ps2 although the conduit frame rate is better. Not a High Voltage fan as they can't seem to work out how to make games have good playability. Will wait for reviews but not expecting much from this.