Bladestorm: Nightmare Reignites the 100 Years' War

23rd February, 1 replies

“Remastered” and “Definitive” Editions have made a name for themselves over the course of the last year, taking games released in the tale-end of the last generation and bringing them to PS4, PC, and Xbox One with higher resolutions, more detailed character models, and other technical improvements - The Last of Us, Grand Theft Auto V, Tomb Raider, and soon DMC: Devil May Cry all fit this bill. Koei Tecmo also joined this club by bringing 2013’s Dynasty Warriors 8 to PS4 and Xbox One last year, but they are taking an interesting approach to their OTHER franchise based on real-life historical conflicts.

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War, based on the actual European conflicts of the same name, was a PS3 and Xbox 360 game originally released in 2007, which combined the hack-n-slash and heightened reality approach of Dynasty Warriors with the real-time strategy elements of Kessen, and now Koei Tecmo is bringing the game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It’s already inherently cool that Koei Tecmo is re-releasing an 8-year old niche title for the current generation of consoles, but even cooler is the addition of “Nightmare”, an all-new story campaign that follows up on the events of the original game, but with a fantasy spin. Not quite a sequel, not quite a remaster, and not quite an expansion either, Bladestorm: Nightmare looks like it could be an interesting foray for fans of Koei’s previous action games...

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