Of the three narrations, I was the least interested in Freeman’s because his story was basically static as a POW with absolutely no means of escape until Burke’s team came.
Richthofen’s motives were definitely on the crazy side but understanding his brand of crazy helped to truly immerse me in the story from all sides. Richthofen’s narration was especially enjoyable as I liked being let in on the antagonist’s thoughts and ideas just to see if I could understand his motives at all or if he is just plain crazy. While it was interesting to have a dogfight (aka: fighter jet fight) scene, I had a hard time grasping what was happening as I am not familiar with planes and military terminology.įrustration over the technical jargon aside, the story connected well between the three character narrations as Burke goes on his mission to save Major Jack Freeman. One thing that I didn’t like about this book was the overly technical aspects thrown into the action scenes.
The experiments (done on both the dead and living) with the corpse gas elevated the horror to a frightening new level that was all too reminiscent of the Holocaust experiments carried out by the Nazis. Learning about the advancements in the corpse gas technology was very creepy as it went beyond just raising the dead. The zombies, or shamblers as they are called, are used as weapons of war by the Germans against the Allied forces during WWI. I thought BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES was going to be a simple ‘killing the undead horde of zombies with very large guns’ tale but it ended up being a much larger war story with very serious implications not only for the heroes but for the world if the wrong side won. Review courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy
By the blood of heroes series#
By the Blood of Heroes is a deliciously gruesome adventure that horror and alternate history lovers, steampunk aficionados, and fans of such zombie-centric offerings as TV’s The Walking Dead, popular literature’s World War Z, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Zombie Haiku, and the Resident Evil video game and film series will eagerly devour. When the German high command employs a terrible new chemical weapon that reanimates the dead, Allied forces must take on the Kaiser’s zombie army in order to rescue a downed American flying ace in the first book of Nassise’s The Great Undead War saga. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, set it on the blood-and-gore-soaked European battlefields of World War One, and you get By the Blood of Heroes, a wildly imaginative alternate history zombie novel by acclaimed urban fantasy author Joseph Nassise. Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of The Dragon FactoryĬombine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of George A. We’re also hoping to see more of Hellblade 2 in the near future.“Joe Nassise has raised the bar for the whole genre.” Meanwhile, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla launched its Dawn of Ragnarok expansion earlier this year.
By the blood of heroes free#
Sticking with PlayStation for minute, Tribes of Midgard is currently free on PS Plus. If you’re longing for you next Viking video game fix, there are rumours that God of War Ragnarok will feature in an upcoming PlayStation State of Play broadcast. For your courage to play an unfinished project, for believing in us, for your praise, and your criticism, and for infinite motivation. For your passion for battles and your drive to overcome. All the energy we’ve put into Blood of Heroes has turned into experience, which we will certainly use for our future games, the games we’re already working on. On May 27th Blood of Heroes will stop its servers and cease to exist as a project. The time is ripe to acknowledge the harsh truth: we did the best we could, but we weren’t able to get enough players. And when the blood that covers the blade turns into rust, the flame of rage grows tired, and the search for an opponent becomes an eternal quest, then the time to surrender their weapons comes even for Blood of Heroes warriors. Here’s what the team had to say in their statement regarding the game’s closure:Įverything that has a beginning has an end. That said, we hope xTEN can salvage something from the project moving forward. It almost felt as if the studio had put more effort into its gratuitous microtransactions, given its background in free-to-play mobile games. Its PvP combat was over-simplistic and lacked flair, each match usually descending into frantic bouts of button bashing. While it’s sad to see any video game cancelled, Blood of Heroes did little to impress us during our brief spell with the Viking brawler.
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