Blade & Sword provides the player with its fair share of hack 'n' slash fun, but does it measure up to the big boys?īlade & Sword takes place in ancient China (BC 1044 to be exact) in the aftermath of a bloody feudal war. For the uninitiated, an ARPG is the melding of a typical RPG game like the Ultima games with real-time action, usually presented in a three-quarter-view perspective. It can be argued which game was the true originator of the ARPG genre, but most gamers' first experience with an ARPG was in the dark world of Diablo.
Unlike Diablo, Blade & Sword supports single-player adventuring only.īlade & Sword, developed by upstart Pixel Studio, is the new kid on the block in a growing genre, the action/role-playing game. Combat in Blade and Sword also distinguishes itself by allowing players to create custom combination attacks, which may be employed through hotkeys or mouse-click shortcuts. Martial arts play a bigger role in this Asian-themed adventure than in many other action-RPGs. Players choose one of three archetypical characters - the agile assassin, the brawny warrior, or the well-rounded long-swordsman - and begin a 40-level adventure in which the hero will face a variety of dangerous creatures and gradually improve in skill and ability. A conventionally styled, isometric-view action-RPG, Blade & Sword returns players to an ancient China for hack-and-slash mythological adventure in the vein of Nox, Throne of Darkness, and the classic Diablo.
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