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While many gamers consider the Wii to be nothing more than a fancy toy, I think it’s an underutilized system whose potential hasn’t been delivered yet. A few developers tried the sword swinging style previously, but High Voltage, developer of the Conduit has announced their hopes to succeed where others failed with the help of Wii Motionplus.

Their next game after the Conduit is released will be Gladiator A.D., a brutal title which says that it takes its inspiration largely from recent film 300, meaning that we’ll probably see a decent amount of stylized blood and some slow-motion.: “The concept for Gladiator A.D. is to recreate the brutal fighting and high tension of the gladiatorial arenas of ancient Rome,”

As you might expect you’ll be fighting via slashes and stabs of the Wiimote and there’ll be multiplayer as well as several different story lines based on which gladiator you choose. Plotlines will be affected by your choices as after you defeat an opponent you’ll have the option to either kill them or leave them alive. Each character is more than just a slightly different story and background. They’ll all feature customizable equipment with a wide range of weapons and armor, some of which will be unique to each character. Two that have been mentioned so far are a druid and a Egyptian noble girl.

The combat system is still gesture based though, so this isn’t the true 1:1 fighting game that many have been hoping for, but it certainly seems to have the potential to be one of the next big hardcore Wii titles.