When did Blood Wake come out?

Blood Wake was released on 28 December 2001 for Xbox.

Blood Wake (2001) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Blood Wake

Blood Wake is a naval combat video game that was released in 2001 on the Xbox as part of Microsoft's initial wave of Xbox launch titles. The game was developed by Stormfront Studios and published by Microsoft…

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What Blood Wake is

Blood Wake is a fighting game developed by Stormfront Studios and released in 2001. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blood Wake is a naval combat video game that was released in 2001 on the Xbox as part of Microsoft's initial wave of Xbox launch titles. The game was developed by Stormfront Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. Set in an Asian-themed fictional world, Blood Wake is a story-driven, mission-based high seas action game in which the player controls a series of small fighting vessels. Some reviewers described its gameplay as "Twisted Metal on water," although its mission-based story line differentiated Blood Wake from Twisted Metal's arena-based gameplay.

Description from the publisher · source

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: Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Blood Wake holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Blood Wake launched on 28 December 2001, within three weeks of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga and Sonic Advance. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga, Sonic Advance.

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