Overlord: Dark Legend
Dark Legend is a spinoff of the 2007 video game Overlord, and is set as a prequel. The gameplay is similar to Overlord, but presents some differences. While the game does not have several features of the…
Overlord: Dark Legend is an adventure developed by Climax Studios, released 23 June 2009 on Wii.
What Overlord: Dark Legend is
Overlord: Dark Legend is an adventure game developed by Climax Studios and released in 2009. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dark Legend is a spinoff of the 2007 video game Overlord, and is set as a prequel. The gameplay is similar to Overlord, but presents some differences. While the game does not have several features of the original game or its sequel, Overlord II, it offers some new content and a new gameplay style taking advantage of the Wii controller. Reviews of the game are mixed: praising the humour, story, and controls of the game, but finding problems with the animation, short game length, and lack of complexity or difficulty.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Overlord: Dark Legend holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Overlord: Dark Legend launched on 23 June 2009, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine and The Sims 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine, The Sims 3.
Official trailer
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