Today during Xbox‘s E3 2019 presser, Ninja Theory announced its new game and first title since Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Bleeding Edge, a four-versus-four brawler that is pretty reminiscent of Overwatch in a few ways. Unfortunately, some of the excitement of the announcement was undermined by a leak a couple days ago that revealed the game and trailer shown off at E3 early.
For those that don’t know: Ninja Theory is an England-based studio best-known for games like Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, DmC: Devil May Cry, and most recently, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. As you can see from this list of titles, Bleeding Edge, a multiplayer game, is a pretty new direction for the studio. And just genre wise, but style and tone wise as well.
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Bleeding Edge will be available on PC and Xbox One when it releases. As we wait for more details and media of the game, including a release date/window, be sure to peep our official review of Ninja Theory’s latest title, Hellblade:
“Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a tough game to assess. I admire what Ninja Theory has created and think their hearts were in the right place, but I didn’t actually enjoy playing their game that much,” reads a snippet from the review. “There are moments that shine – a particularly intense boss battle here, a genuinely affecting cutscene there – but I found a large portion of Hellblade to be an uncomfortable drag.
“What I can tell you is Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is, objectively, a well-made game. I think Ninja Theory achieved what they set out to do, and their level of craftsmanship is impressive. Perhaps you’ll have a different gut reaction to the game than I did. Or maybe you’ll find it even more trying. Appropriately, Hellblade’s allure is largely in the eye of the beholder.”
As always, feel free to leave a comment or two or three with your thoughts and hot takes or hit me up over on Twitter @Tyler_Fischer_ and let me know over there. How does Bleeding Edge look? Are you interested in picking it up?
