Age of Wonders developer goes action adventure
Some of our readers might remember the old days when Dungeon Keeper enchanted gamers with its dark humor and cynical lines, combined with the ruthless oppression of imp workers. Prepare yourselves to receive a new helping of thrilling perspectives, by being evil or really evil with the upcoming Overlord title. Age of Wonders developer Triumph Studios left behind their highly appreciated turn based strategy efforts to join publisher Codemasters in creating Overlord. The fantasy action adventure game is scheduled for PC and Xbox 360 invasion in summer 2007.
Within the thick fantasy, world players will become overlords, with right of life and death over their subjects. The tag line is Lord Acton’s
very own “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, in an endeavor to match the player’s ambitions of glory with the many temptations of power abuse, in the wake of your defenseless peasants. With incredible power at your disposal and an army of evil-minded impish minions, there’s no telling how long can you resist the seduction of madness, thus, one can either be an illuminated ruler or an iron handed tyrant.
How corrupt you become depends solely on your actions. Should you exert feudal repression towards your subjects, peasants start falling to their knees, cowering to your presence and eventually praying for their lives and handing up their daughters as offerings. On the other hand, an important achievement factor is to finish the game 100% uncorrupted by restraining yourself from killing any peasants, harvesting the souls of living creatures or exterminating that antipathetical fantasy race you’ve always despised. The storyline is developed by Terry Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna Pratchett, who also wrote Child of Chaos fantasy novel distributed with the Beyond Divinity game, and PS3 launch title Heavenly Sword’s script.
Source: softpedia.com