KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, today announced that BLADESTORM: The Hundred Years' War has achieved gold status, and will ship to North American retailers beginning November 6, 2007 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system.
For those of you not yet familiar with the Unsung Heroes series, the rules are as follows; games eligible are those disc-based releases that Electronic Theatre feels have been underrated, undersold, or treated unfairly since launch. And for Xbox360 (along with every other system) we're keeping it based strictly on titles that have seen UK launch. The positive reception we've received to the Unsung Heroes series has been very much appreciated...
The only two that deserve to be on that list are Dark Sector and Just Cause...
Haven't played Just Cause, but I agree with you about Dark Sector, I played the X360 version, and I really like the game, really surprised to see it on the list.
Nice article. Dark Sector is an awesome game and is surely underrated. The GFX esp.
I think this list should be renamed the 5 most crappest 360 games, as ive played 4 of them and they are all crap.
The thing is 360 only have overrated games, not underrated. So the games that didnt score that good simply werent that good making a serious underrated list for 360 impossible.
real crappy games
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KOEI has told Eurogamer there are no existing plans for a sequel to Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War.
The publisher was speaking after announcing Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, the original of which launched alongside Bladestorm - also on Xbox 360 and PS3 - last November.
In Bladestorm, rather than control and fight as one character, entire squads of period fighters such as pikemen or royal knights or musketeers or archers could be captained into huge skirmishes, a bit like Total War on speed.
I really was hoping they would expand on this game. There was so much more they could of done. Hopefully they will revisit it at some point and time. :)
Unliek many people I guess I actually liked this game and found it fun.
After a joyous yuletide spent playing Naughty Dog's supreme Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, it's back to the frontlines of the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 console war for this reporter, with the latest battery of cross-platform confrontations. You know the score by now: impartial criticism on each multi-format release is the name of the game, the aim being to supplement the original Eurogamer reviews with additional commentary relevant to each version of the game, with gameplay the primary concern.
Eurogamer compares the following games:
- Kane and Lynch: Dead Men
- TimeShift
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
- Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
- Blazing Angels: Secret Missions of WWII
- Medal of Honor: Airborne
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
- Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War
- Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
- Clive Barker's Jericho
- John Woo Presents Stranglehold
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"impartial criticism on each multi-format release is the name of the game, the aim being to supplement the original Eurogamer reviews with additional commentary relevant to each version of the game, with gameplay the primary concern."
really? i thought the primary concern was to get fanboys riled up to get more hits and attention.
Everytime i read your stupid comment's everytime i begin to wonder if all of them are the same.You can't think of any better stuff to say.
F@cking idiot!!!
He constantly bashes the PS3, saying "But if I had to make a choice it would be the 360 version, if only for the gamerscore challenges and the fact that the excellent graphics aren't diminished by the needless Vaseline effect." But looking at pics like these ones makes me wonder the objectivity of his comments because to me the 360 pics are the ones that look "out of focus"...
yeah, i thought the same way. he talks about no AA, bla bla bla. but when you look at the picks they proove him wrong. lol, what a fanboy.
cod4 does this in a really awesome way, it blurs everything around your target when u manually aim. its a cool touch but im not sure if thats what theyre doing in those screenshots. the ps3 ones do look more clear.
I thought that, too, in the first place (and it might well, be true, but then, even the PS3 version has depth of field - just a little bit more in the distance). However, then look at the second (Graw2) shot, and you see way more details on the rocks in the background. And look at the volume of the dust below the helicopter. Just to point out some details.
Same for K&L. He complains about the AA (or actually no AA) in the PS3 version, then click on the shot and if there wouldn't be a "360" or "PS3" text printed on the image, you would have a hard time to distinguish which is which. - And both have AA.
So, well, I agree. Either this guys is just biased or he is intentionally lying. W/e. I think he disqualifies himself and the whole site is pretty pointless. This whole "lets do a comparison story" gets really old. We had that over and over again. And it only leads to threads where the green side argues with the black side forever. Useless. (I don't even know why I even read these threads, still).
@4 & 4.1
What is wrong with you two? This just *repeats* everything we've heard of cross platform games.
This isnt "fanboy" bias -- it is confirmed over and over and over and over by every site. THAT is why when you goto METACRITIC, you'll find that Xbox 360 versions rate higher than PS3 versions of cross-platform games.
You people *CANT* be for real.
Have a look at this GRAW2 shot attached look at the doors (whats up with the 360 version) now in this article it says the screen shots are captured from the HDMI port well these pics look sharp so if the reviewer says he gets soft focus his TV must be a right piece of sh!t my PS3 looks sharp on my Hitachi Plasma!!!
Rob
i own both, the 360 and a PS3, i have a new 46" 1080p 120Hz Samsung, and i have no problems with my PS3 games looking washed out...i think the media is trying to make a big thing out of nothing...i am a Sony fan, but i also enjoy some games in my 360 and i agree that when the PS3 first came out the multiplat games looked awful, but the latest games like, NBA 2k8, Kane n Lynch, Assassins Creed, CoD 4, Orange Box, Burnout Paradise etc etc i cant tell the difference whatsoever, i like the PS3 controller better and thats why im backing the PS3 more :)
that I just don't get. The demo was lame, I was expecting something like Dynasty Warriors and it wasn't. The only thing entertaining was the voice of the last character when you can choose the guy voice. That voice sounds so feminine its funny as hell.
yeah, this game blows, hated the demo.
Koei sucks at everything. a horrendous company with a 1 hit game out a bazzilion rehash titles that score an average of 5s across the board. nothing new and if it is new it sucks just like their other games (Fatal Inertia) no thanks i only spent 3 minutes before deleting bladestorm for PS3 off my hardrive... a truely broken and underwhelming experience. like all there so so boring games,