Dragon Blade screenshot.I just thought I'd give you an early review for Dragon Blade Wrath of Fire for the Wii. I've only beaten the first dragon, out of six, but I'll give you an early review, and give you a full impression review after I finish the game.

Dragon Blade is a budget title produced from D3. It also sells for 40 bucks. I thought the game looked fun so I bought it.

The game is really fun. I enjoy playing it a lot. It's a hack and slash type game, which drew me to it. Although this game isn't a "God of Wii," it is really fun.

You play has a boy named Dal. Generic story of boy's girlfriend is killed, dragon comes back as sword and asks Dal to clense the world of evil dragons. That kind of stuff. The story sounded good to me, but LandHo!, the developers, could have done better telling it.

First off, voice acting would have done wonders I think. They put voice acting in the beginning cut scene that kicks starts the story, and then no more after that. It would have been cool to hear some dragons talking it up.

The story was written by Richard Knaak (Warcraft War of the Ancients triology, Diablo books, and a lot more). There's more things the developers could have done to enhance the story, but voice acting would have bumped it up.

The graphics are subpar. I agree graphics is not everything, especially since this is a budget title. The dragons look cool, and the fire looks awesome. Backgrounds kinda suck though. I'm just saying.

What really makes this game fun, though, is the controls. LandHo! did a good job with the controls. I swing left, the sword swings left, I swing up, the sword swings up. Most of the time anyways. Other then the every-now-and-then times, the controls are good.

What's also cool is that you collect dragon parts as you go along. See you're basically trying to put together a dragon. First thing you get from a dragon, other then the sword, is a right dragon arm. This thing is fun. It's a giant flaming arm. How can it not be fun? You toggle it using the D-pad on the wiimote part, which for this arm is the right direction, and you swing away. You can do uppercuts by swinging the remote up, and do a swipe by swiping the remote. It makes since. The only downside to this ability is that it uses... i forget what it's called but it's the equivalent to magic. I mean the game would be super easy if you could use dragon parts all the time. But i sure do love killing stuff with it.

which brings me to the enemies. The AI's not the highest. So far I haven't met too many different kinds of enemies, and by reading some reviews, I dont think I will. But what little kinds of enemies I fight, I have to execute them in different ways. For example, spiders I have to kill by using the down-swipe of my sword, because they are small and close to the ground. Wolves, I have to block/dodge first when they show up, because they like to charge at you and it hurts. Big demon thing with horns... I just say screw it and whip out my dragon arm. They go down fast that way.

The dragon battle was fun. After you figure out the dragon's moves it's pretty easy. The developers said they wanted boss battles to be epic, and they did it. Voice acting would have made it more epic though. Hearing a dragon calling me a "Little Twarp" as I smack him, would have been a nice touch. More reaction from the dragon I guess is what I would have liked to see.

Let's see, have I forgotten anything. Gameplay, sound, story, graphics, controls... I think that's everything.

So to sum it up, Dragon Blade is a fun game. That's all there is to it. It's really fun. I have fun when I play this game. Yeah the graphics are kinda bad, but it's fun. Voice acting would have been nice, but the controls are great. For a 40 dollar at release game, it's a good game. Gamespot gave it a 4/10. Gamespy gave it 2.5/5. Ign gave it a 5.5/10. But readers of these sites are giving the game 7-8.5/10. In my own opinion, I'd give it a 7. Nothing higher, but nothing less. I have fun when I play this game.

So that's my two cents on the game. It's kinda hard to find since it is a budget title, so if you have a wii and am interested, maybe rent it first. If you like it, buy it. That's always a good motto.

Anyways, I'm going to go to work.

Later gator.