AirBlade is an arcade developed by Criterion Games, released 9 November 2001 on PlayStation 2.
What AirBlade is
AirBlade is an arcade game developed by Criterion Games and released in 2001. It was published by Namco. It is available on PlayStation 2 only. It runs on RenderWare.
The premise, in the publisher's words
AirBlade takes place in the near future as a man named Oscar has developed a perpetual energy source that will revolutionize the world, however, the GCP Corporation has discovered it as well and fears that it will hurt the company which is heavily invested in the oil companies. Desperate, they kidnap Oscar in an attempt to silence him, but before he is captured, he gives his friend Ethan a prototype hoverboard called the AirBlade.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
AirBlade holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
What it launched against
AirBlade launched on 9 November 2001, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Halo: Combat Evolved. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved.
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