NetEase’s Blood Message is a cinematic action game based on Chinese history with plenty of promise
Blood Message is the first narrative-driven game in development by NetEase, the Chinese publisher behind hits like Marvel Rivals and Naraka: Bladepoint, and it’s swinging for the fences based on its first moody trailer.
The game is a third-person action-adventure game that has a hint of Uncharted meets Assassin’s Creed, which is another way of saying that it looks like a big-budget AAA game where the sheen as important as the gameplay itself. You play as a “messenger” and his son, both of whom are caught up in an uprising that will test their familial ties and country loyalty.
Here’s how NetEase is describing it:
Blood Message is the latest example of China flexing its growing dominion over prestige game development, and the enormous potential for the medium as cultural export.
