Sega to Publish Gladiator AD, Now Tournament of Legends

By SpookSpook81. Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:42:05 PM

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It appears that Sega has not had enough of High Voltage's developments and is now willing to invest into one more of their titles: Tournament of Legends.

Once pitched to investors and presented to the press as "Gladiator AD", the game created a lot of buzz at last year's E3 and then kinda went quiet (who could blame them after seeing the disappointing sales of once-the-most-awaited-for-game-for-the-Wii The Conduit). Well, it now resurfaced with Sega's announcement that it will be picking up the publishing rights to the game and is now calling it something different: "Tournament of Legends" (if you ask me, I liked the old name better).

With Tournament of Legends, we want to take the 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. - Eric Nofsinger, High Voltage's COO


It seems that Sega is still betting on 'mature games' for the Wii and is not being let down by not-so-encouraging sales (The Conduit, MadWorld, House of the Dead...). The game is set to be released on May 18th in the US.

Via IGN.

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