20 years in the past, a third-person action-adventure pirate sport referred to as Age of Pirates: Captain Blood was introduced by way of a brief trailer at E3 2004. After which lots of shit occurred, resulting in the sport being delayed repeatedly in improvement after which protracted authorized fights as soon as it was completed. However now, lastly, 20 years later, this long-lost pirate sport is arriving on all platforms later this yr.
The entire story behind Captain Blood is an extended and complex story involving a number of cases wherein improvement was fully restarted from scratch as group members left, reportedly because of dangerous administration selections. Nonetheless, after an enormous inside reboot in late 2004—which turned Captain Blood right into a God of Struggle clone—improvement on the sport really progressed and it was principally completed in 2009. Nonetheless, the sport’s earlier writer, Playlogic, started a brand new authorized combat with the developer over the Captain Blood IP. So despite the fact that the studio reportedly started printing discs and getting ready to ship copies to retailers, authorized troubles led to it by no means launching. A trailer in 2010 promised a 2011 launch, however that by no means occurred. And that was the top of Captain Blood…or so we thought.
On June 17, as revealed in a brand new “world premiere” trailer, this long-in-development pirate sport is definitely, lastly, for actual launching this fall on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Change, and PC.
Primarily based on the gameplay seen within the new trailer, it seems this model of Captain Blood is predicated on the final construct we noticed in 2010. That may clarify why a number of the fashions on this “new” online game appear to be they fell out of an Xbox 360 motion sport. In spite of everything, this principally is an Xbox 360-era online game, however with seemingly some enhanced lighting and (hopefully) strong efficiency.
Will Captain Blood be good? No concept! Technically, many individuals have already performed a model of this sport as a completed construct leaked on-line in 2022. From what I’ve seen of that leaked copy, I’m not anticipating some groundbreaking sport.
Nonetheless, I’ll admit that I’m considering enjoying by way of a linear single-player motion sport from the Xbox 360 period of gaming. Today, most video games like this are massive open-world issues with crafting and live-service stuff. There’s one thing oddly charming concerning the chunky fashions and ease of Captain Blood that appeals to me. That is the sort of sport I’d hire over the weekend as a teen and beat by Sunday afternoon. And I miss these video games. So I’ll be enjoying Captain Blood when it arrives later this yr. Assuming it really does launch this time.
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