Although I cannot personally claim familiarity with the source material, Koei Tecmo Europe have today announced their plans to publish a new Troop Command Action Title ‘Bladestorm: Nightmare‘. Serving as a follow-up to their 2007 game ‘Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War‘, this new title will be released starting early 2014 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Xbox One consoles.
‘Bladestorm: Nightmare’ is a strategy game where the player takes the role of a mercenary and chooses to fight either for England or for France in missions inspired by real events and battles of the era dubbed ‘the Hundred Years War’; a conflict that raged between 1337 and 1453 between the House of Plantagenet (England) and the House of Valois (France), also implicating most western-European kingdoms at one time or another.
Revisiting one of the lengthiest and most politically unstable periods in European history, Omega Force has developed this title in a way that allows the player to assume command of different kinds of troops (e.g. melee, mounted, ranged) and armies, while it also offers them the opportunity to develop their own unique character, increase their fame, gold, and army and complete various missions irrespective of sides and loyalty.
Bladestorm will also include a mode called ‘Nightmare’, which features an original scenario not based on historical events. The new mode allows the player to take control of an additional 32 playable characters, based both on fictional and prominent historical figures of the time like Edward- the Black Prince-, the legendary Jean D’Arc, or the astute military leader and knight La Hire among others.
Does this sound interesting to you? Koei Tecmo have shared their first batch of screenshots for the game, and will be showcasing more details in the coming weeks.
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