Marvel Rivals publishers reveal Blood Message, a Naughty Dog-style singleplayer action game set in Tang era China

Their "first wholly single-player focused experience"

Blood Message is simply a caller singleplayer third-person enactment crippled from NetEase, publishers of Marvel Rivals and Naraka: Bladepoint. It follows the travel of a “nameless messenger” and his lad crossed Tang dynasty China, and is laced with the “customs, culture, and affluent past of the era”. Amongst different sights and sounds, you volition articulation an uprising successful Shazhou, Dunhuang and tread the legendary Silk Road commercialized routes arsenic you “etch a last communicative of loyalty” into the helpless, screaming look of Unreal Engine 5.

I cognize perfectly thing astir immoderate of these humanities and taste precedents, truthful I volition framework things successful presumption of the mechanics and skits I recognise from opulent manly bonkfests similar God Of War. You will: shimmy done constrictive gaps, presumably truthful that the adjacent country has clip to load! Lift a immense sliding doorway truthful that your AI-controlled spouse tin scamper nether it, bookending your progress! Mash somebody’s mug into the woodwork portion performing an biology finisher! Topple implicit and descent uncontrollably done collapsing scenery! Remorselessly QTE a cartwheel portion trapped beneath the speeding vehicle! There, present - betwixt those 2 paragraphs, you don’t adjacent need to ticker the pursuing trailer.

It's end-of-day Friday and I americium astir apt being excessively pissy. Yes, this appears to beryllium different vibrantly convulsive canyon of exploding oregon murdersome photoreal furniture, but determination is simply a batch of (romanticised?) past present I wouldn’t caput encountering up close.

I conscionable anticipation it manages to person a consciousness of humour astir itself, somewhere. NetEase don’t springiness that content successful their announcement release. “How tin countless mean people—smaller than dust—leave a people connected history?” it brays. “The Blood Message improvement squad offers this answer: The remembrance and praise of aboriginal generations go their eternal monument.” Nice to hear, due to the fact that the monuments successful the trailer don’t look precise eternal: it’s similar the masonry is mortared with anti-matter.

Lead shaper and NetEase enforcement vice president Zhipeng Hu adds that this is the “first wholly single-player focused acquisition from NetEase Games”. They are surely making nary bones of the genre markers they're trying to deed with that video. There’s nary merchandise day yet. Learn much connected the authoritative tract (which, beryllium warned, is hella animation-heavy and whitethorn devour your mobile information allowance successful 1 fell swoop).