20 years ago, a third-person action-adventure pirate game called Age of Pirates: Captain Blood was announced via a short trailer at E3 2004. And then a lot of crap happened, which led to the game’s development being repeatedly postponed and there were lengthy legal disputes after its completion. But now, FinallyTwo decades later, this long-lost pirate game is releasing on all platforms later this year.
The whole story behind it Captain Blood is a long and complicated story that includes several cases where development was started completely from scratch when team members left the company, allegedly due to poor management decisions. After a major internal reboot in late 2004, the Captain Blood
As a new “world premiere” trailer reveals, this long-in-development pirate game will finally launch for real this fall on June 17 for Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
Based on the gameplay in the new trailer, this version of Captain Blood is based on the last build we saw in 2010. That might explain why some of the models in this “new” video game look like they fell out of an Xbox 360 action game. After all, this is basically Is a video game from the Xbox 360 era, but seemingly with improved lighting and (hopefully) solid performance.
will Captain Blood good? No idea! Technically, many people have already played a version of this game, a finished build leaked online in 2022. From what I’ve seen of the leaked copy, I’m not expecting a groundbreaking game.
I will admit, however, that I am interested in playing through a linear single-player action game from the Xbox 360 era. These days, most games like this are big open-world things with crafting and live service stuff. The clunky models and simplicity of Captain Blood that appeals to me. That’s the kind of game I used to rent over the weekend as a teenager and play through on Sunday afternoon. And I miss those games. So I’m going to play Captain Blood when it comes out later this year. Assuming it actually comes to market this time.
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