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Arkane’s Deathloop team are making a Marvel Blade gameA second bite at making a good vampire game this time?
A second bite at making a good vampire game this time?
Image credit:Bethesda Softworks
Image credit:Bethesda Softworks
After the disastrous launch ofRedfall, you’d have thought that immersive sim experts Arkane would have wanted to bust open the curtains and stay as far away from vampire games as physically possible. And yet here we are, with tonight’s Game Awards reveal that they’re making a Marvel Blade game. What are the chances? Will this second bite at making a (hopefully good this time) vampire game be the one? It’s still early on in development, from the sounds of things, but here’s the reveal trailer.
Marvel’s Blade | Announcement Trailer - The Game Awards 2023Watch on YouTube
Marvel’s Blade | Announcement Trailer - The Game Awards 2023
There have been some strange rumours surroundingMarvel’s Bladegame. Last year, it wasrumoured that Ubisoftof all people might be making it after some Instagram shenanigans with a motion capture artist seemed to suggest a link between the publisher and the project. That rumour was quickly quashed within 24 hours, though, and since then we’ve heard neither hide nor hair of it. Until now, that is.
““As a kid of mixed origins, I felt a special connection to Blade – a hero with a dual heritage himself,” said Bakaba in a separate statement on Arkane’swebsite. “The opportunity to put our spin on this character is a dream of mine and a challenge that our team embraces with a passion. We couldn’t be happier to put players in Blade’s boots, as he becomes the champion of my hometown of Paris, one stake at a time.”
Personally, if Arkane’s Blade captures even a tenth of what made Deathloop so gosh-darn fun (he better have a great hoof kick as well as a good sword arm, I’m telling you now), then this could be a pretty all right Marvel game. When will we hear more? Goodness knows. But hey, at least Arkane are still in business. Here’s hoping Blade isn’t the game to make them bite the dust (sorry).
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