You guys realize that an "enemy" can be a single quad (two triangles), with a texture on it, yeah?

Lots of games use that kind of mechanism as a level-of-detail system. If its off in the distance, its often hard to tell if its a real animated character, or just a 3D sprite.

Even Lair (PS3 dragons & armies game) used this kind of LoD mechanism to have "thousands" of guys in the playing area, and even visible, at once.  The PS2 Kessen series had similar mechanisms.  All this implies is that the authors of Kizuna were clever about their LoD system -- it doesn't say anything about the Wii in general.

That said, I am really looking forward to this game!

I think Spartan total warrior had tons of enemies at once and their bodies didnt dissapear, but i guess thats because they all have a low poly count (you can easily tell)

the 100 quets sound more exciting than the 100 enemies on screen

@Procrastinato - I wasn't sure on the type of mechanism that could be used to achieve it, but I'm like you it sounds like somethin' that definitely can peak my interest.

@woopah - What if they could do both! =O

It's usually called imposters. Also used on distant folliage/trees.

At 10 frames per second.

Good post.

IMO, programmers should be using clever tricks like these to scale up the scope of their games, rather than relying on raw power to do the scaling for them.

Rogue Squadron II, a launch game on GC, boasted over 100 ships on screen at once with a few drops below 60 fps.  I'd like to think the Wii could do at least the same without dropping to 10 fps.

To be fair, Kingdom Hearts 2 had a sequence where you had to fight hundreds of Armored Knights, although they rush to you in batches. The enemies in the background are imposters, and only become polygonal when they jump towards you. The execution is very impressive, and is no different from commercials where they display masses of people in one shot.

one of spinoff game from Warriors orochi series on ps2 had 6400 enemies on screen so?