Bladestorm: Nightmare (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Bladestorm: Nightmare

Bladestorm: Nightmare is the newest evolution of 2007’s Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War using the latest technologies and introducing many new elements. These technologies have made possible not only visual…

52 29 January 2015

What Bladestorm: Nightmare is

Bladestorm: Nightmare is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Omega Force and released in 2015. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Hundred Years' War between France and England, the story casts the player as an aspiring mercenary leader who fights for whichever side best serves their interests. The tale opens with two anonymous sellswords trading blows amid a clash between French and English forces, musing on the fickle nature of mercenaries and the absence of any true right or wrong in war. Rather than follow a strict chronology, the campaign lets the player take part in famous battles across the long conflict, piecing the larger narrative together through conversations overheard in the tavern between engagements. A broad cast of historical and original figures drives the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Bladestorm: Nightmare holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Bladestorm: Nightmare launched on 29 January 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.

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