High Voltage's Wii gladiator game slips

By Robert Purchese Published 30 March, 2010

Plus: Vanquish confirmed for winter.

SEGA's pushed the release of High Voltage's Wii gladiator game, Tournament of Legends, back a bit. What was once May is now 2nd July.

That same release schedule also offered a concrete winter 2010 release date for PlatinumGames' Vanquish. There's more about Vanquish in our considerable preview.

Tournament of Legends, on the other hand, aims to bring mature and bloody arena combat to Wii. Developer High Voltage is still on a crusade to prove that Nintendo's console can produce action games and shooters of a similar ilk to those on PS3 and Xbox 360.

The developer's first attempt, The Conduit, turned out to be a bit rubbish and sold - like many third-party Wii games - few copies.

Let's hope Tournament of Legends can perform better.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • swissorc #1 2 years ago

    "Tournament of Legends, on the other hand, aims to bring mature and bloody arena combat to Wii." Actually it's a tacky saturday afternoon television film with only 12 playable characters no motion plus, online or anything what so ever even remotely interesting. Additionally, the grinder has gone from being an ambitious project to a rip off of Alien Breed and has gone multi-format. Although, the existence of the The Conduit 2 becomes the spoonful of sugar to help this bitter medicine go down.

  • muscleblade #2 2 years ago

    I vanqish coming out for the Wii?

  • CallousB #3 2 years ago

    Rage of the Gladiator on Wiiware looks far better than Tournament of Legends..and is probably a quarter of the price.

  • malexous #4 2 years ago

    "sold few copies"

    Nevertheless, HVS is 'extremely proud' of them.

  • Acrid #5 2 years ago

    Looks shit now, the original demo shots they released when it was called Gladiator A.D. made it look somewaht passable, now it looks like so turd for 7yr olds to get bored of after a weekend of play

  • nuanimal #6 2 years ago

    Good luck! And although The Conduit wasn't spectacular the controls were excellent - and at the risks of getting negged - better than Metroid Prime 3' controls. Hopefully HVS can learn and get better.