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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Excellant visuals and storyline. Variety of characters and weapons. Probably the best game i have played.

This game is not a role-playing it is action gallore

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

So, you looked at this game and youre sure you dont want to buy it. I did the same thing and i purchased it. It turned out to be a great game( actually the best game i have ever played). The gore in this game is amazing. If you slice off a monsters head, blood gushes out of the neck. I really enjoyed playing this game. couple reasons why i think you should buy it

1. Great graphics
2. The shadows in the game are so amazing
3. It is so tempting to grab a sword and slice of a wrist and a leg
4. There is over 80 hours of gameplay which is not like some ghetto games when you do a level and the game is over.

I REALLY RECOMMEND THE GAME

Fantastic game! Even better on a pumped gaming system...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Blade of Darkness is perhaps one of the few games that I can play over and over again, after already having beaten it. I haven't noticed any of the problems with controlling the characters that some have reported on this forum, but the game CAN be very difficult at times. In fact, I had to use the cheats AND read the walkthrough just to finish the game! BTW - in order to activate the cheats, you will have to modify one of the game files, which isn't a biggie if you know your way around files, but may intimidate those unexperienced with computers. Anyhow, if you have a pumped up system, this game is phenomenal - especially with surround sound. This game will take a long time to complete if you aren't using cheats. The best points of the game are the enemy AI, the ability to hack your enemy to pieces (beheading is a great finishing move), the graphics(check out the shadows, water, and the way blood spills down walls and other vertical surfaces!), sound, and the fighting system (after you lock onto an opponent, it's similar to playing Tekken - only very bloody). The bad points? Doesn't look as good on slower systems or at lower resolutions (OR systems which use slower GeForce cards that aren't fully DirectX compatible. If you have an ATI Radeon or GeForce 3, you won't be sorry). It would appear that this game was created utilizing newer graphics methods that older graphics cards may have a problem keeping up with. And unfortunately, when using each of the different characters, only the very first level is different for each, then they all follow similar paths/levels.

You will NOT be disappointed with this game, unless you have a slow system (may be choppy, or not look amazing)or are not familiar with or good at controlling characters in 3rd person mode.

Blade of darkness

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When i first purchased this game, it was more of a spur of the moment purchase. Well, I have decided that that is how I will shop from this time forward. I have never played such a fun, action packed and exciting game in my life. I have been stuck playing a certain online title for the past 2 years, and now thanks to this game i dont even have that title installed anymore. I could never recomend a game more then this, it is absoloutly fantastic.

Awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Best game I've played since Thief. Very immersive. Amazingly detailed and beautiful scenery, great effects with shadows, water, and torchlight. Variety of special weapons to choose from - too many to carry and try out once you have a good combination. Also, each character type has preferred weapon type and special weapons for each type. Enemy AI is cool. Love fighting orcs and goblins they way they scream and yell before you finally lop off their heads! Only used walkthroughs to solve one puzzle and find 2 runes so easy to miss. Ending up modifying character last 2 levels because time to study. Only complaint is certain bigger monsters are too easy once you figure out weaknesses. If I had time I would play the other 3 characters.
All time great game!!

bloody fine piece! (pronounced in robin hood style)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is great!
you can perform about 20 different moves and combos, you can use about 100 different objects (including chairs and enemies' libms) to hurt people. you can eat cheese and you can set things on fire... also i've never seen game with graphics like this. the shadow almost looks real. blood... that's the best part. you can slap somebody with your bare hand and all floor will be covered with blood. can you imagine what happens when you take a sword? i loved the idea of "flaming/freezing" weapons. (you can set enemies on fire with one hit or you can freeze them and brake with one kick).
deffinitely the bloodiest game after QUAKE3

Good melee

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Blade of Darkness can be defined in one word, wow. This game is good in many respects. The best being it's outstanding environments. The lighting adds to this by casting eerie shadows through out the game. Excessive violence is another bonus in my view. I love the realistic melee attacks which send your foe's limbs and/or head flying, and fluid combo's help the realism. There are some drawbacks. Sloppy control over your character are one I have found to be a bit annoying, long load times when you die(there are no continues), and a lot of points in the game where you have to jump or die. Other than these few annoyances the game is solid.

A Fascinating Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: March 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Firstly i wanna say that this game includes lots of blood,gore and violence scenes.I love like these games.When i played this games demo version,i was exciting.Cause of this games scenes,effects and real sword combat scenes have been coming so beliavable.You should pay attention shadow plays in this game.But this game recall die by the sword.In this game u have a 2 choice for play.First one is normal adventure alternative and the second one is multi-player alternative.When u choose the second part u r starting to play in arena mode.This games heros,scenes,effects are so wonderful.You have alots of combos,and weapons in game.But this game is very hard.So i didint give 5 star for this game.On the other hand this game is excellent in every respect.

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, there is not much more to say about it. The graphics are brilliant, Gameplay is huge. Once you've started it you will not want to stop. The Gore is Great! Brilliant game. The only thing left to say is 'BUY IT!' :-)

omy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

"Blade of Darkness" is like a good steak; after the first bite, you just gotta have more. A good swipe of your sword; Claymore?,and your adversary totters, neck spurting type O, while his recently attached noggin goes rolling down the gutter, must be experienced. Very immersive. Nice special effects also, but takes a good 3D card, so be warned you may have to run this with most of the goodies turned off. Still, you won't be disappointed; it's one of those games that stands out and will have you up half the night. En Guard!

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