Some news on Sadness for the Wii.

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Sadness to feature effects deemed impossible on Wii
By James Orry - 14/04/2008 - 1:43pm GMT


Wii Remote and Nunchuk to control character's hands.



Emergent Game Technologies have today announced that the much discussed Wii horror title, Sadness, is being built on the Gamebryo game development platform.

Sadness is the first Wii title to be presented entirely in black-and-white and is in development by Poland-based game studio Nibris. The game is set prior to World War I and is described as a crime noir thriller with richly detailed characters and an engaging storyline.

Sandness will see players confronting their greatest fears and protect themselves in hope of not getting trapped inside the main character's nightmare. The game will feature eight different endings which will play out depending on the player's actions.

Making full use of the Wii, the game will use the Wii Remote and Nunchuck to move the character's hands.

"Without a doubt, Gamebryo is the most powerful engine available for the Wii. After getting familiar with the engine several months ago we made the decision to choose Gamebryo. Since then, our team has been working on Sadness and we are quite impressed," said Tomasz Wisniowski, Project Manager of Nibris. "We will have quite a few graphical effects in our game, which some believe are impossible to attain on the Wii. Gamebryo helped make it possible. We are firmly convinced we made the right choice."

"Sadness is designed to push the bounds of Wii technically and creatively," said Geoffrey Selzer, CEO of Emergent. "We are thrilled to be a part of Nibris' ground-breaking product. We're really looking forward to playing Sadness on Wii."

At least we know it still exists.

[Alucard von Elru]

Yeeeeeeeeeessss!!!!! It is great to know that the game hasn't been cancelled or anything, as it always sounded like a game that would sway me towards the purchase of a Wii. Now, if we can just get some more footage or something.

[JKTrix]

A lone screenshot was passed around last week.

[Shoeberto]

I really hope it doesn't turn out to be disappointing. I've heard things like this too many times just for the game to turn out bad.

[Roogle]

I think that this game is too conceptual in nature to get it right. It reminds me of Koudelka with its history approach.

[Dreddz]

If this game turns out to be good I may have to rob my friends Wii for a while.

[Germ Hamee]

I can't wait for this game. It's probably the only thing I'm really looking forward to on the Wii.

[Rase]

I really hope it doesn't turn out to be disappointing. I've heard things like this too many times just for the game to turn out bad.

Exactly my thoughts.

[theundeadhero]

It looks fairly interesting.