Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War
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Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB Rating: Teen
Media: Video Game
Product Weight: 2.00 pounds
Model: 00166
Manufacturer: KOEI Corp
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Sales Rank: 2816
its a great game,
by K. Baxter, 2008-12-15
this game is great. its basically an RPG. you are a mercenary for hire. a war between the french and the english, you can fight for either side, the 100 years war, you cant modify your "character's traits or anything like that". you modify these "books", each "book" is a different group that you group up with. for instance "sword". you group up with this group that has a sword and you use this group to attack the enemy with. after attacking the enemy for awhile you start leveling up. then at the end of the battle you can add points into slots according to how much experience you gained for that round "according to the book you were attacking with, for example, sword, if you were gaining levels in sword usage, you will be able to put points into the book: sword. you only gain experience when you increase in level. there are are about 10 different "books" that you can choose from. from spear, sword, bow and arrow. crossbow. lance on horseback, pike, bow on horseback, magic, mace, and many others. each battle are different stages.
the main point of the game is to capture different territories while youre on the battlefield. you have a time limit for each battle. and your objective varies. every objective is to basically capture a certain territory.
the game is alot of fun. if you like the middle ages, midieval type games. this game will be alot of fun for you. i have owned it for about a year now. and i still play it. the game is always exciting. there is no change in difficulty.
there is one flaw though to the game especially on the 360. the game tends to crash from time to time. so if you do not save often. you will have to start back from your previous save. there is no auto save. maybe it is my xbox. i dont know. but the game does lock up from time to time for me.
other than that. its a very good game. lots of action involved. another thing you can do in the game is you can hire mercenaries to fight with you. and you assign them on the controller to launch them on the battlefield, and then you can group up with that group of mercenaries that you put on the field. you cant change your weapon, the only way you can change your weapon is if you switch your "group" to a different book that that group is using. if your group is using swords and you want to use an axe or a mace, you have to go find a group that is using that weapon.
YOU CAN TRY THE DEMO ON THE XBOX ON XBOX LIVE FOR FREE. ITS UNDER THE DEMOS.
Good time killer, but not much else,
by Brian Long, 2008-12-01
While dusting, I came across this on my room mates shelf. Being a fan of omega's games and a fair strategy nut, I popped it in, expecting to slog through a small cities population while barely staining my mail hauberk. However, bladestorm takes an interesting middle ground between the 3-rd person slaughterfest of Dynasty Warriors and the nearly completely hands off approach of Rot3K.
Bladestorm puts you in the role of mercenary officer No. 5, a sellsword who works for the British and French in turns on various fields throughout the Hundred Years War. A nice cast of significant figures make periodic appearances and are voiced decently, from the Black Prince to Joan of Arc.
Advancing isn't a level by level thing, but rather a practice with spears, improve spears techniques and spear unit leadership skills. Points aren't automatically awarded, and you have a fair amount of control over the improvement of unit abilities (I personally ramped Calvary Charge up to max first thing, and thereby turned my horse line into a tank blitzkreg) The weapons are incredibly well balanced, and a wrong strategic step can quickly see your men slaughtered like lambs. Yuo also can't do the one man army approach thats so tempting from DW either, for similar reasons. Theres some strategic involvement, but primarily you fight from the fore, as to be expected.
The sad part of this is you feel like an extra in a movie, rather than a named character, much less a main one. You almost don't have control over yourself, and its easy to lose track of you among the throng, and suddenly find yourself surrounded, all your men dead and you at half health. You have no lines and no involved cutscenes, and you even get your thank-you lines in battle. The story crawls along, shackled wrist to ankle. After nearly 10 hours of play, I've run maybe 5-6 10-15 minute story missions, and had little direct involvement otherwise. To put in DW terms, you play free play ten times before playing a story mission. The story also doesn't seem to go anywhere. You can't exclusively fight for Britain or France it seems, as you need to play French missions to unlock further British ones, and vice versa.
This is a great game to keep on your shelf, but I couldn't sit through this start to finish if I was paid. I'll pull it off and sack some villages every month or so, and grin wickedly while doing it, but I can't follow it with the same kind of dedication I've felt for Dynasty Warriors. It was a nice new idea Koei, but it definitely won't take over as the best one.
This game will require a time committment,
by Toby J. Randall, 2008-10-02
KOEI gets a bad rap in my opinion. Sure they tend to produce button mashers that are a little weak on story or they simply try to repackage concepts over and over, but that can be good at times. Bladestorm doesn't really fit that mold. Set during the Hundred years war, this is a game that is long and takes a little bit to get into. The controls are different and take some getting used to and after awhile you end up either liberating or ransacking the same cities multiple (and I do mean multiple) times. But, once you get into the game it is pretty fun. It involves some strategy, but not in the tradtional "you move then I move" sense. Worth the time. Just don't expect to finish it in a week. Maybe not even in a month.
Not bad...,
by E. L. Sapp, 2008-07-26
...but it could have been a lot better. I really wanted to like this game, but so much is stacked against the player that the frustration outweighs the fun.
The minimap is horrid. Finding where you are and where you are supposed to be once you are on the battlefield is very difficult. Also, finding more of your troops if you are cut off can be impossible. (Several times, I lost my unit and was unable to find another group to take command of.)
Enemy commanders will not die without extreme effort. I ran several over with a horse, but they got back up with near complete health.
Enemy units that you have almost no chance against (either because of level or weapon differences) cover the battlefield.
Great game,
by S. Neighbors, 2008-06-22
This a a good game, provides hours of entertainment. Is a good alt from the normal game from this company.
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