The popular franchise is now heading towards the Wii and DS. Screens inside!

Codemasters revealed this morning that the Overlord franchise will heading towards both Nintendo platforms. Currently not much is known about the game apart from a few details. The Wii version will feature a comic like fantasy plot, done by Rhianna Pratchett with the return of old characters from previous games aswell as new ones, which will take place before the original game.

Naturally with a Wii-bound title, Wii controls will be inplemented. An example from Codemasters was that "Individual Minions can be plucked from the horde, held by the neck and then, by vigorously shaking the Wii Remote, throttled to imbue him with some Overlordly power and turn him into a manic minion missile". Some screens for the title can be found below.

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The title is expected to be released in 2009. Stay with N-Europe for more news!