Turning your boat around can be a major pain in the ass. No good.ĬONTROLS (5/10) The controls are the worst part of Bloodwake. You always end up close to your opponent, he's trying to circle around to hit you, and you're trying to circle around to hit him. It's not that it was MADE badly, it's just that two people driving fast boats have a hard time hitting eachother. MULTIPLAYER (2/10) Multiplayer Bloodwake is about as fun as a root canal. This is unique- a nice touch.Ĭrucial to a water-based game is the boat/water physics engine. Inbetween battles the story is told on illustrated scrolls, with narration. For some people this will get extremely monotonous, but for a simple fellow like myself, it is rather enjoyable for a few hours (the amount of time it takes to beat this game). While the missions provide a bit of variety, you'll find yourself spending most of your time blowing up enemy ships. There's a few types of missions escort missions, defend-the-base type missions, attack-their-base type missions, destroy X building type missions, and Recover X Items missions, and a couple others. The gameplay is all mission based, as opposed to a few vehicles in an area where the only mission is to destroy eachother. GAMEPLAY (7/10) I've seen a few people refer to this game as ''Twisted Metal'' on water or some such thing. I won't degrade the sound score much for this though- voice acting doesn't mean much to me, seeing as how during the actual playing time you won't hear any voices. It's like a terribly dubbed anime, but worse. Why does he talk like a white guy? And why do all of the other people with asian names sound like Indians (people from India) ? The voice acting will have you rolling your eyes at many different points, and perhaps laughing as well. The main downfall of the sound is in the voice acting category. The other sound effects are good explosions, engines revving, and machine guns all sound fine, but aren't anything shockingly special. It's a tasty mix of heavy metal guitars, old traditional chinese music, and some beats reminiscent of japanese techno. SOUND (8/10) I was really pleased with the music of this game, and if you're cool at all, you will be too. Weapon effects are just okay- the missiles, cannon shells, etc, don't look too spectacular. The enemy boats don't look as good, they didn't put as much work into them (which makes sense, I guess), but they do the job. The machine guns move to track enemies, cannons flip up out of the deck, missile batteries raise up- all the little weapon animations were nice. You can see all the weapons you have, on your boat. They're detailed and large on the screen, which I thought was cool. Your boat (the boat you're driving at any given time) always looks good. The graphics are most impressive during the night/sunset times, the sun/moon effects on the wavey water are gorgeous. Along with the 3 weather settings are 3 time settings night, mid-day, sunset. There are a few different weather conditions in the game calm ocean, medium-waves ocean, and high-waves stormy ocean. It's smooth and realistic, ripples and waves look fantastic. However, I can say that the water is well done.
Now, I haven't played many other water-based combat games, in fact Dead in the Water is the only one that comes to mind, so I don't have much to compare it to. It being such, the water is obviously rather important to the game. GRAPHICS (8/10) This is a game of water combat. The basic idea of the game is get Revenge on your evil brother Lung who happens to be attempting to take over the world. You're rescued by a group of pirates and quickly rise in their ranks. You are left drifting in the ocean to die. Your squadron of ships is destroyed by your evil brother Lung (pronounced LOONG- that asian flava).
Good, even.īloodwake has you playing the role of a pirate/sailor named Kai. Well, as it turns out, whoever told me it was a sweet game wasn't quite correct. Why would I buy a game off the bargain shelf, you ask? Well, I only had twenty bucks, and I heard it was a sweet game (a while ago). I just picked up this game for twenty bucks on a bargain shelf.
"I just picked up this game for twenty bucks on a bargain shelf.
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