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Engadget
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Chinese company Netease is making an AAA action-adventure game called 'Blood Message'
NetEase, the Chinese video game company that published Marvel Rivals and Bungie's Destiny: Rising , has announced its first single-player AAA game. It's a story-driven third-person action-adventure game called Blood Message , and as Polygon notes, it's in the vein of Uncharted and Assassin's Creed. The story is set in the final years of the Tang Dynasty, which ruled imperial China from 618 to 907. In Blood Message , players take control of a nameless messenger and his son "to deliver a message that holds the fate of their war-torn homeland." Players will have to journey through desolate deserts and the vast wilderness of East and Central Asia. The trailer shows the messenger and his son fighting enemies in the desert, surviving avalanches, working with mysterious characters and discovering ancient artifacts. It also shows the game's cinematic cutscenes, stealth and survival mechanics, as well as the landscapes players can expect to see. "We are ushering players into a new generation of high adventure with Blood Message," said Zhipeng Hu, the Lead Producer and NetEase Executive Vice President. "As our first completely single-player focused experience from NetEase Games, after two decades of deep dedication to the gaming industry, we are prepared to deliver a truly epic and cinematic experience for players around the world." NetEase has yet to announce a release date, but Blood Message will be available for consoles and the PC. The game's announcement shows that Chinese developers are increasingly making more inroads into the AAA space. Black Myth: Wukong , which is widely considered as the first AAA game from China, was originally released last year and will be available on the Xbox in August.
Metro
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
NetEase game Blood Message may have the best video game graphics ever
After Black Myth: Wukong put China on the map in terms of single-player action games, new title Blood Message seems to be going a step further. Up until the last couple of years, the Chinese video games industry has had virtually no visible influence on the Western market. Giant publishers like Tencent and NetEase do own numerous Western developers, and shares in publishers, but no one would play a game like Marvel Rivals and assume it came from China. But all that has changed recently, with last year's Black Myth: Wukong (and Stellar Blade from Korean studio Shift Up) cementing a new era of Asian video games that are not from Japan. You would think that the lack of experience, with console style single-player games, would require a long period of learning and experimentation, but in terms of graphics that has not been the case at all. To the point where new game Blood Message is already looking better than almost any other game in development. All we've got to go on is the trailer below, but the game is published by NetEase and developed by 24 Entertainment in Hangzhou, China. It's described as a 'cinematic, single-player, linear story-driven action adventure' for consoles and PC. A lot of the first wave of Chinese single-player games have been heavily influenced by FromSoftware and the Soulslikes genre, including the upcoming Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, but Blood Message seems to be closer to Sony titles such as God Of War and The Last Of Us. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. There's little further information about the gameplay, except that it blends 'visceral, realistic combat' with 'stealth and survival mechanics.' More Trending The story is based around the final years of the Tang Dynasty, in the 9th century, and casts you as an unnamed messenger trying to travel East, with his young son, during Dunhuang's Uprising. We're unclear how much of it is based on historical reality but there doesn't seem to be any magic or fantasy elements. Unreal Engine 5 is being used for the visuals and if the trailer is an accurate representation of what the game is going to look like in action, then we should all be in for a treat. There's no word on a release date or year, which is usually an indication that the game is a long way off, but hopefully we'll find out about that soon. 'As our first completely single-player focused experience from NetEase Games, after two decades of deep dedication to the gaming industry, we are prepared to deliver a truly epic and cinematic experience for players around the world,' said Zhipeng Hu, Lead Producer and NetEase Executive Vice President. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: You can buy one of the best games ever for the price of an ice lolly MORE: The six strangest games Hideo Kojima made before Death Stranding 2 MORE: Survival Kids review – lost in blue on the Nintendo Switch 2
