When Tournament Of Legends was first announced (at the time it was known as Gladiator A.D.) there was a general level of excitement for the game; it was violent (see: very violent), it was set in an era that not many games had dared to explore, and the developers (High Voltage Software) were the talk of the hardcore gaming audience on the Wii, thanks to the recent success of The Conduit and the announcement of The Grinder. So where exactly did it all fall apart?

To help answer that question, here’s a quick crash course in what you should expect when you slide the disk into your Wii console: Tournament Of Legends is a 3D fighting game, similar to the ones that had their heyday back in the days of the Sega Saturn, Playstation and Nintendo 64, but today seem to have fallen to the side in order to make room for the current revival of the 2D fighting genre.