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Publisher:Microsoft Developer: Storm Front Studios Release: Q4 2001 Genre: Action With some of the best water effects ever seen on a console title, Blood Wake seems to be very similar to a Playstation title called "Dead in The Water". But early reports state that Blood Wake is an Asian-themed boat combat game that settles itself into being a mission based game. Microsoft and Storm Front did an excellent job so far with the basic bump mapping layout. The way the sun reflects off of the water had to take a tremendous time and effort to complete. If you leave your boat sitting in ther water, it will move up and down in a rocky motion as if the water was real. It appears that Stormfront used wave modeling to create this motion. Once you open the throttleand start moving across the water, your boat will make a nice wave splashing effect on the water and the boat will bounce off the waves in a very vibrant motion. The controls were said to be easy to learn and can be very fun once you give yourself enough time. Your boat is equiped with a machine gun and a seconary weapon of your choice with the touch of a face button. The range of weapons is a nice selection of anything from missiles to homing torpedos. Plus Blood Wake offers diferent kinds of shields to protect your boat! Boats range greatly in size, from small, fast, lightly armed boats to gigantic, heavily armed but sluggish battle cruisers. The game's four-player multiplayer option will allow you to play simple free-for-alls, as well as various team-based games. Though the game isn't close to being finished yet, Blood Wake's got some real potental to stand out over the rest of the X-Box titles to hit stores around launch time. Blood Wake is currently scheduled to hit the shelf in November. June 13, 2001 |
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