The storyline included is a completely new adventure than the one in with the Xbox 360, PC, or Playstation 3 versions. You start the game as 16-year old Gnarl, a young overlord just beginning to understand and control his evil powers under the guidance of Minion Master. After being left to take care of yourself you become involved in a series of adventures in Castle Gromgard that eventually lead to you traveling through the land of Greenvale killing every living in your path.
You'll need to pick up power-ups and solve simple environmental puzzles during your travels that open doors and lower bridges, fight boss battles that require you to eliminate your enemy is hilarious ways, like taking out a witch using fireworks, and control an army of minions using useful and satisfying controls.
Overlord: Dark Legend's first hour of action does a really good job of introducing the player to the simple gameplay and resource-management system. In fact, they did such a good job of trying to help the player progress through the game; it actually decreases the playability. They developed this game to entertain a casual gamer, this doesn't mean it won't entertain a hardcore RTS gamer, it will, they just won't come back for more after they complete it the first time.
The game has a good control scheme that works well; you simply point and click to instruct your minions to attack or sweep across the landscape. It becomes challenging to direct four different types of minions on the map at the same time using the D-pad on the Wii Remote, but the controls work so well that once you get the hang of it, it's really easy to execute.
The four types of minions included in this game are brown, red, blue, and green. The brown minions are your basic foot soldier, red minions can throw fire, and blue minions can swim and heal, while green minions are good at sneaking around and surviving gas attacks. The game also introduces you to the four different types of minions separately to give you time to get use to the differences and unique abilities of the various types, and moving them around.
It's really easy to earn money to purchase everything available in the game, so this takes away from the challenge of having to actually earn the money, and makes beating the game much easier. In addition, you never run out of minions, so beating this game will be easy to accomplish for even a casual gamer.
The Wii version of Overlord: Dark Legend is a game that all Wii gamers should definitely take a close look at and I recommend that all gamers give it a try at least once. It has a nice blend of engaging storyline, stylish graphical presentation, and easy to learn game play that was fun and extremely satisfying to play.