Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4071 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Koei
• Released on: 2008-02-15
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description
Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War puts gamers in the role of a rogue commander and gives them direct control of mercenary units in fierce clashes with English and French forces. The game’s unique style of action thrusts players into dynamic and ever-changing conflicts. Players must adjust their strategies as skirmishes evolve, and then deploy the unit best-suited to handle the challenge. At a player’s command is a broad array of troops including infantry, archers, and cavalry, as well as a variety of specialized units such as elephant units, cannoniers, and castle siege specialists. While each unit is comprised of autonomous soldiers, each warrior will contribute to the assigned objective.

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War utilizes a “Free Mission” system that allows players to align their forces with either the French or English on a battle-by-battle basis. This unparalleled freedom allows players to take on different assignments, or simply experience a given battle from an opposing side.

Game progression is wholly dependent on a player’s decisions and accomplishments on the battlefield. Players must establish a reputation as a dependable and capable leader by successfully completing each mission. The reputable commander will attract more desirable troops to his employ, and will be asked to take on weightier challenges that reflect his status as a fighter and leader of men. The troops themselves will also become more lethal as they gain combat experience. Through a point system, players can augment their units’ combat capabilities.

Customer Reviews

UberStorm
I Heard alot of bad reviews for this game, yet when it came out on Demo its all i ever played just two contracts and i was hooked.
style of play is amazing, multiple weapons for one style like the sword, many types from all over the world.
The difficulty has got too be highlighted here, in many other games you choose the hardest level of playing and it isnt much of a challenge yet with the difficulty star rating is accurate.
When choosing a contract to complete you have multiple choices from hard to easy, or from good money too pocket change but every battle is a new experiance for you.
The other merc's in the game make it so more fun, i personally go out of my way too find the hardest mercs there are and too defeat them just to say HA i beat the best, and there are many types of mercs on horses on foot, the only thing i can think of which i havent come across yet is a female swordswomen ive only found female archers.
This game has too be a major acheivement for Mass Battles and Good Graphics for a unknown company(Koei).

Something a little bit different
I recently bought this game on the back of a few good reviews. Overall Bladestrom is an enjoyable game that is highly addictive as the time does fly by when your playing it.

In a nut shell you are a mercenary that can pick and choose which side of the battle you are on between the French and English. The game itself does take quite a while to get used to and involves using the manual along the way to figure out what you are doing. This is because you can control squads of people be it archers or swordsmen and you need to know what opposition they are good against (for example archers close up are not good against swordsmen!). During the battle you can switch squads but there are a few catches along the way as you must own "books" which allow you to take charge of that squad. You earn books during battles for killing leaders of other squads and capturing bases.

The game essentially comprises of two sections

1 The Tavern: this is where you can upgrade weapons for the squads that you can control and equip them. Also you can upgrade the attacks that squads have using skills points that you earn during the battle.

2 Battle: Now I only have an ordinary tv not HD which might explain why certain parts of this game are flawed. For example you have a map in the top corner of the screen is not very sharp and clear red=english blue=french and you are well green I think! but it is almost imposible to tell and secondly which way you should be running to battle! Often you have to come out of battle and use the main map to see where you are.

Also when you begin fighting there could be fifty people slashing and stabbing infront of you now if you can see where you are then you are doing well because it is often total carnage! attacks are launched by holding R1 thats it! If you want a special move there is square circle of triangle but once you use a special move you must replenish taking time about 10 to 20 seconds depending on your ability before you can use it again. Some of the special moves though are pretty cool. Although these are about all the negatives the game is good fun and requires a bit of thought if you run off to battle with a squad and no other supporting squads from your country then your going to end up dead pretty quick, so you must use different squads in one battle to win. This game though does offer something a bit different to whats out there and it is really good fun not 5 stars but if you have a bit of spare cash then its well worth it.

war .... fun!!!!! pure class!!!
if you like total war games such as rome and medievil 2 you will love this.... its more ur the commander and you can train and change units however you like... Its very action packed and battlefield action!. Fantastic game on ps3 1 of a kind. you can create a player, and upgrade him using the money you make from doing quests for the factions, english and french. You can also buy new unit and upgrade them... there are specials that can swing the battle in ur favour such as lowing the defence of the enemy, increasing the attack of ur army and even making the enemy turn on themselfs. This game is superb... graphics are really nice aswell, controls are nice and easy and can get to grips quickly.. i rate this game highly !!! 5 stars!!