Preview: Swords &Soldiers

By: Derek Yu

On: December 31st, 2008

Swords & Soldiers is an upcoming 2d side-scrolling, real-time strategy game for the Wii, from the creators of the original version of de Blob. It’s slated for an early 2009 release.

Posted in Previews, Strategy, Videos, Wii | Tags: RonimoGames

durp

super neato
Zaratus

Looks nice.

Heh, little World of Warcraft reference in the trailer there. [Legendary] multi-player and [Epic] spells, both formatted and colored the same as WoW’s epic and legendary items.

Is it sad I noticed that? Probably.
Glaiel Gamer

Looks a lot like Castle Crashers actually
John Evans

Is that, like, Aztecs vs. Vikings? Rock on.
Andrew

Totally doesn’t look like Castle Crashers, I find the backgrounds much nicer and the art style of the characters is less detailed with smoother, bolder lines, where Castle Crashers choses to often have far more detail in the outlines, instead of make them as bold and smooth as possible, for example with having things like fur done with more details.
mots

while the art style might look like castle crashers this looks like a simple left vs right flash rts.

it gets extremely boring after a few rounds.. you can spawn soldiers and cast spells, that’s where the gameplay ends
pnutz

Tell us more of what it’s like in the near future, you precognitive miracle.
Andrew

You can describe any game in this way. In Castle Crashers you just keep moving to the left killing enemies and bosses in your way. Hacking and using spells is where the gameplay ends. Hurray?

All games revolve around a particular core concept, if said core concept is made fun and the game keeps you going for sometime, which this tries with having actual campaigns and multi player modes, then it’s worth the WiiWare (and hopefully other platforms) release for sure.
Andrew

Er, that should be moving to the right I guess. Lol.
mots

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Louissi/age-of-war

this is the kind of game I was talking about

from what i have seen in the trailer, this is exactly what swords & soldiers is, it’s fun but it gets boring and repetitious after a few games
Adamski

Reminds me of super Paper Mario
Radial

Looks like someone noticed Castle Crasher’s fame!
Mark

It kind of looks like this one independent game I played where you get guns and level them up and I think you’re an android and you fall into some kind of bunny town. I forget, but this game is clearly a rip-off of that game.
Radnom

Does anyone else think the 3 in 3HIT looks like an S?
Trotim

@Radnom: Not really, but I can see where you come from =P
defacid

@Mark: :D

This looks like a fun game. I’ll probably buy it after I buy World of Goo.
Gio

Certainly different from the usual puzzlers we’ve been seeing on the wii. Besides the good ones, like World of goo and peka kana. Maybe my wii will get some use after collecting dust for some time.
Al3xand3r

Lolz, teh dust meme has hit tigsource. Hurrah for finally achieving mainstream credibility peeps, if that’s good or bad, is (not) up to you D:
Al3xand3r

PS: There are tools called vacuums and dusters people.
James-Kond

Look like Patapon =)
bateleur

Are Wii devkits much cheaper than I thought? If not, how are indie devs funding this kind of project?
Oddwalz

With Piss and Vinegar
kp

too bad it doesnt PLAY like Castle Crashers. I don’t want a 360 but I want that game. :(
Darx

but plays nothing like it at all
Jad

Omg it looks like a game!

Don’t know about the animations myself, I think the game looks a little .. non-dynamic? I want everything to bounce and stretch a bit more, a more physical feeling?

I’m rambling.

tl;dr

Looks nicer in still-frames than when moving IMO
UnlockMyTV

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