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This makes the SA Sports Crusader a promising bow for the avid archer, whether out in the woods hunting live prey or out on the range enjoying some target practice.

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The game was reviewed using a code provided by HomeRun PR.The SA Sports Crusader Crossbow delivers an arrow at blistering speeds, and gives the archer ample power for hunting both big and small game alike: It’s here that he can find objectives on his own by using his Penumbral Vision and starts to move with agency-a sense of freedom that’s washed away in blood whenever you’re handed yet another checklist of tasks to complete and sent down yet another identical-looking corridor leading to by-now repetitious combat.

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Earthblood also offers glimpses of the better, richer game that could have been in between missions, when Cahal is free to roam through portions of Washington State Forest and the Nevada desert, chatting up his clanmates, human collaborators, and various lesser spirits. Advancing the cause of the Wyld are the werewolves, who help their Guardian Spirits protect nature from those who would pollute it, while corporations like Endron act as proxies for the Wyrm as they seek to destroy the planet, and humans sit in the middle like the Weaver, playing both sides.įor how rooted it is in real-life ecological concerns, this lore feels purposeful, even as the story becomes increasingly cliché. Cyanide has done a compelling job of lacing the war between a triune of spiritual forces-the Wyld, Wyrm, and Weaver-with ecological concerns.

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The strongest part of Earthblood is its lore, which is pulled from the tabletop role-playing series The World of Darkness that includes both Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Vampire: The Masquerade. There’s a level here, in which Cahal has to find a way to kill two prison inmates without being detected, that may have you wishing you were in the terrain of Hitman, where you can infiltrate a locale and assassinate your targets in a variety of ways. Which makes it all the more unfortunate that it undermines itself with cumbersome stealth mechanics, especially on higher difficulty levels.Įarthblood suffers from an identity crisis, one that doesn’t stem from the differences between Cahal’s human and four-legged Lupus forms, but from Paris-based developer Cyanide’s failure to give players more than one way to proceed through a level and never making that linearity feel particularly purposeful. Earthblood, then, has the essential components to be a righteous, fast-paced action game. Once he transforms into his two-legged, half-wolf Crinos form, and to the beat of a heavy metal soundtrack that’s as loud as his roar, he knocks foes and objects alike into oblivion in a blur of rushing, swiping ultraviolence. That’d be enough to drive an ordinary man to violence, but Cahal is also a werewolf. For good measure, the corporation fridges Cahal’s wife in the game’s prologue and later kidnaps his daughter. Indeed, if the unsubtly named Endrom weren’t dangerous enough with its reckless oil drilling, it’s also injecting its biofuel-the titular Earthblood-into its employees, transforming them into demons. Cahal, the jacked-up protagonist of Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood, channels his rage into a righteous crusade to save the environment-a show of eco-terrorism that will feel more than justified.

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