E3 2004 showed us the likes of Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Resident Evil 4, and the infamous 'blades will bleed' trailer that introduced us to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It also marked the debut of a mostly forgotten pirate action game called Captain Blood, which would end up getting retooled multiple times only to be quietly canceled because of a rather complicated legal dispute. 20 years later, it's finally being released for real, and you can get an early taste with a Steam Next Fest demo that's got me weirdly nostalgic for all the bad PS3 games I played in my late teens.
In its final form, Captain Blood had morphed into a God of War-style brawler with stylized visuals, and that's exactly what you'll get here. Mash X and occasionally Y to throw down combos, tap the trigger occasionally to fire off a ranged shot to keep enemies at bay, and hack and slash your way through a bunch of linear levels, occasionally stopping to break down a door, angrily open a chest, or murder passing civilians.
