I’m surprised Blood Wake wasn’t more popular because of it. These are fun and frantic, and in my opinion represents some of the best multiplayer experiences on the console from it’s launch window. Once you’ve had your fill of the single player experience you can jump into deathmatches with up to a total of four players. As you play new boats are unlocked and they have their own handling characteristics which is a pretty good reason to replay the game. Despite all being based on the high seas the stages have their share of inlets, islands, etc, such that they’re all a treat to explore. The campaign takes a few hours to complete and Blood Wake manages to stay fun start to finish. Blood Wake is a really easy game to learn, and it’s solid nautical fun. The auto-targeting system makes combat a breeze, and the mini-map takes all the guess work out of the equation. You would have expect the controls to be floaty, but you can whip around with relative ease. The handling is also on point, and that’s saying a lot for a speed boat based game. The way your ship plays off of the waves feels surprisingly realistic. Zipping around each stage is a blast and there’s an amazing sense of speed at play here. A game like this can be bad if the developers don’t nail the controls, but in this case they absolutely did. I wasn’t completely sold on the premise of Blood Wake. In one mission you have to collect treasure and can use this in a limited fashion, but other than that it has been largely ignored. This is kind of interesting but the mechanic isn’t really used in an inventive way. You can actually beach your ship and slide it back into the sea. These are entirely stationary but by default are a little out of reach. What’s interesting is that on top of aquatic targets you’ll also battle land foes as well. They’ll also drop weapon crates the replenish your ammunition for the secondary weapons.
The only way to recover your health is by collecting health crates. You’re going to be hit constantly by a barrage of enemy bullets. There’s an on-screen reticule to show where your shots are going to go, and a light auto-targeting mechanic which makes things a bit easier. You also have a few more unique secondaries such as the wave gun which creates disturbances in the water and an electromagnetic shock at short range. These include a rocket launcher, torpedoes, mines, and more. The secondary weapons you acquire as you progress in the game, and each one is more powerful than the chain gun. The good news is that it has unlimited ammunition. Unfortunately this can overheat if used constantly and will need some cooldown time after a while. By default you’ve got a chain gun with rapid fire. Far from it, actually.īlood Wake gives you both a primary weapon as well as several different secondary types.
While completing these tasks you’re going to be constantly accosted by enemies whose goal will be to whittle down your life bar. Sometimes your goal is just to destroy all the enemy vessels, various structures, collect treasure scattered on the map, or escort other ships to safety. The game is divided up into missions that vary in setting and objective. You maneuver around land masses on the open seas and view the action from behind your boat (or first person view if you so choose). You spend the entirety of your time with Blood Wake within your ship. The execution is kind of lame the voice overs are laughably bad and the story isn’t great. It’s a pretty unique scenario in that not a lot of video games explore the modern pirate theme. Kai is taken in by a league of pirates, moves up their ranks, and the game begins with him setting out to defeat his brother. He is one day betrayed by his brother Lung who seizes power among the ranks and sets out with his merry band of sailors to take over the world. In Blood Wake you play as a young naval commander in the Pacific named Kai. I was pleased to discover that Blood Wake still holds up.
Today I decided to give it another go and see how it holds up. Back then there weren’t a lot of titles like it. It released within the launch window, and was unique in that it was a ship based action game wherein you play as a pirate gunning down enemies. Today I’m here to talk about one of these such games Blood Wake. Because they launched with such a generation defining title a lot of other software was quickly forgotten. For a long while gamers were convinced that the original Xbox had Halo and little much else to offer.
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