I bought this game from WalMart when I was a kid. This game is special because it marks the first time I was disappointed with a game I spent saved money on.

I love how they knew how to capture the feel of the Blade movie. By just overlaying club rave music over the game.

I still remember in the MMOish Marvel Heroes Online when Blade was near Iceman Blade would say "The only cat I know who can ice skate up hill" it was a nice reference.

This is probably one of those licensed movie games where it's like, "this is what Blade was doing before the events of Blade 1"

Some game developers are always trying to roller BLADE up a steep incline

That is the most off brand looking Marvel Logo I've ever seen. Also that blood pool is about the same quality as the blood dripping on Deacon scene was.

I never knew Blade had a video game, pretty cool and I know the third movie wasn't the best but I enjoy the Blade trilogy

The main menu shyly keeps trying to turn into the Cowboy Bebop opening, but keeps stopping itself then start gathering its courage, then losing confidence.

"When do we get to the blood baaaath!" -Traci Lords

Blade on the PS1 kinda reminds me of Shadow Man. The way he moves and holds his gun does reminds me of it. This game came a year after Shadow Man,and both of them were voiced by the same guy. It would be nice if he said “Vampires are the a$$hole of the universe.”

Control Stick combat done decently: Jet Li's Rise to Honor (Its actually pretty good from what I remember) Control Stick combat done horribly: Nina Williams in Death by Degrees

🦇 Blade, I had no idea had a game. Fun to take a trip back in time

The jet Li game had stick control combat and it was done well in my opinion. You should do a let’s play of that one too

I had Blade for the Gameboy color it was a sidescroller with some top down shooter levels. As a kid I loved it and it's not too bad revisiting.

Rise to honor!! Amazing control stick combat, although certainly not without its flaws

"Humans are weak to bullets." This like martian manhunters weakness is fire, yeah no shit everybody is weak to fire. It's hot dude.

Loved Blade so much I finished this game and the ps2/Xbox version.

The super energy drink is Mega Busted in this game. I always saw my brother play this quite a lot on the Farm. Good trip down memory lane.

The Original Xbox had a Blade game to.

Back when i was a kid, one of my friends said that you could play as Spiderman if you had both copies of Spiderman 1 and 2 with a save of each game with 100% complete run....i believed that🤦🏻

one of the only games i owned on playstation. I used to play this alot.

I remember this game had a lot of jumpscares. I kinda wish you could have gotten to some of the later levels because they are actually interesting.

Blade II on PS2 was dope. if you didn't just flick the right stick like a maniac, as the game says not to do, the combat can actually be pretty good. You just have to pace it with your strikes. Now I want to play this on Duckstation.

Monster Hunter on Ps2 did also have Analogstick Combat

NGL I have fond memories of Blade 2 on the Xbox. But I was a kid at the time so it might have sucked

Ahhhh! Matt got struck by lightning!

Yo, I actually played this game thanks to the movies. It was only years later that I figured out you could kill the final boss another way. Aparently, you can reach the final level by night.

I also read pallatine as palpatine 🤣

You got to where i did as a kid. I only got to play this once (i loved it but could never find it again) i was playingwith my step brother but he sucked, so i pretty much had to only use the sword because he would run through all the equipment by the time he got to a save point. So on my turn i would gather as much resources as i could get to a save point then i would die, and repeat the cycle again.

Laser Transformer... So Galvatron comes out and wastes some vamps.

That first marvel alliance blade played pretty decent

I remember the sticked based combat in the Jet Li game being alright

supposedly Ubisoft is working on a blade game. we'll see how it turns out if it's true

Honestly a new Blade game would be a welcomed one, especially nowadays with the more slower but quality titles that have popped up in recent years, Insomniac's Spider-Man games, Eidos Montreal's Guardians of the Galaxy, that PSVR Iron Man game, seriously I really do hope Marvel opens their IPs to the smaller studios, cause they have potential, Wayforward is one I think would be a great fit, make them work on a Metroid-Vania with a fitting property, Antman could work, as well as Spider-Man. Also Suda 51 the guy behind No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw expressed interest on Marvel IPs and mentioned Deadpool being one of his favorites, so there's your Deadpool Game Dev right there.

Obviously, all those generators are needed to power the blood rave.

This game looks like Shadow Man (on PS1), they even got the voice and everything, but seemingly only left the tedious parts of it...

I wish someone in the comments says: “well Matt i got a ps1 style fan game of Blade Trinity.”

Jet Li Rise to Honor uses joystick to fight as well, Be nice to see Blade and Rise to Honor get remaster/remake or that odd in-between original and overhaul style.

my theory is blade has silver tipped spurs on his boots for kicking vampires that are too small to show up on ps2 graphics and that's why he can kick vampires to death

Which button do you press ingame to learn about how terrible Blade Trinity will be?

That menu screen 😳 (I'd slide the blood frequency attribute dowwwwn though 😬)

Gonna tell you the same thing I tell all PS1 blade players. Consider trying the gb color version. It was directed by the same person that did Double Dragon 2 (and some kunio kun too) on NES and the family relationship really shows. Its got a similar kind of attack combo as DD2, a simple but satisfying timing based block/counter system that lets you tear through basic enemies once you master it plus a solid cabal/wild guns style minigame where you use A and B to alternate shooting into the background or at the midground (?) to fend of enemies.

I feel like this game will have lots of bats, spiders, rats, and various generic jobbers as the bad guys

You know, this actually looks decent, I gotta give it a try.

I would honestly love a new polished Blade game that plays like Devil May Cry. It could take inspiration from the Wesley Snipes movies, but be it's own thing. One can only dream.

The music had a moment of silence for a fallen soldier.

Finally, Fighting Force 2 Episode One

From the developers of Shadow Master and the PS1 port of Quake 2... 🤨

Rise to honor on ps2 had good thumbstick combat.

Loved the civvie counter, gave me a laugh

the first monster Hunter had control stick based combat. unless you were using a bow gun. but... yeah, don't miss those days

You think Blade was the first good Marvel movie? Wrong, TECHNICALLY it was Men In Black since Marvel Comics owned it elemayo. Anyway, this game doesn't look too bad. Not particularly exciting and is kinda of store brand Duke Nukem: Time To Kill X Shadow Man (but linear) vibe to it. Aside from Blade's apparent lack of health, seems quite "OK For The Time". The only superhero PS1 games I know of (that I'm not sure if Matt has played in a video) would be basically the X-Men Fighting Games (Children Of The Atom, Mutant Academy 1 and 2).

Analog stick combat games I still think are cool are Monster Hunter 1 on PS2 and Monster Hunter 3 on Wii lol. I like analog stick controls in MH, but I realize now the weapon movesets are too varied and technical for that to be realistic as an option anymore lol

Activision was dropping heat back then😂😂😂

my guess is that the developers of this game took some liberties, and you know that most of the time that's the right way to proceed when you're creating a game based on a movie.

Appreciated.

I'd forgotten about this! I remember buying it for pennies in late 2001. Didn't take me too long to beat it and had a good time doing so. Aren't you supposed to time your hits with the squares for big damage? It's been twenty-plus years!

Literally tried this today

watching blade switch levers and push buttons is like 90% of the comics. In fact, they didn't even add a vampire until issue 74. "True" story. (not at all true)

Attacking with the control stick? What also comes to mind is the very first Monster Hunter for the PS2 and of course the Ape Escape games

Matt: "Show me a bad train level, I dare you!" *Civvie11 has entered the chat*

Uhh, those boxing games had control stick combat that was sick, Fight Night, right?

When did this game come out? I'm getting some VTM Bloodline vibes from the music.

Control stick combat? Skyward sword hd? Nah homie. Wonderful 101 baby!

I just heard of this game yesterday and was thinking about it today what were the odds of this video coming out thanks Matt

I love blade on ps1 n I wish nightdive would remastered it.

This game isn't as good as the Blade 2 game but I still liked it. It has that PS1 jankiness that I found kinda satisfying for some reason. lol

14:15 why does the music slap?

Play the GBC game too! :D

My favorite joystick combat game is Too Human. A game that died and shouldn't have but because of shady business practices it failed!!!!!! Also it's October, I'm looking forward to castlevania month!!!!!

Well it's a Marvel franchise, so I'm gonna say this takes place in New York.

Yo I can’t believe I didn’t know there was a Blade game

Bad train level : the one in Blood 2: The Chosen.

blade 2 is pretty cool, you should play it

Blade 1 took place in Detroit I thought.

Blade 1 is in los angeles

Please do a let's play for this cult classic

Los Angeles

4:40 As much as I dislike but don’t hate skyward sword the stick controls are pretty good after you get used to them.

Lmao yea I got the reference. Not bad playthrough.

At least Blade was cool in Ultimate Alliance. I think.

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it's so weird that the ammo pick ups are white boxes with red markings because it makes them look like heath and the health is blue for some reason?

I remember playing this when I was younger and thinking to myself wow whoever created this game did not care. And it played like a dumpster fire.

Marvel? I'm pretty sure their claim to fame is Howard The Duck but I'm not super familiar with their work either.

The stick controls in Metal Gear Solid 2 were alright, but they didn't demand much precision. I wonder now about Revengeance, which I've never played.

I would like to play a Black Panther game before a Blade game just based on the possibility that Marvel may water down some of the more violent elements that could make a Blade game good/authentic.

15:12 Megaman X6, Red Dead R2, PS2 Lupin the 3rd, Pretty sure there were escort missions in Armored Core................. But yeah, I have seen trains suck

Skyward Sword HD

play blade 2 on the ps2 next

When are we gonna get to the blood rave? 😭😭😭

You brave man, playing a ps1 licensed game I do have a morbid curiosity about these types of games though lol I wonder if blade 2 on ps2 was any good ?

Bad train level? How about Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn/Chase the Express; Where the game itself is one long train level?

Skyward sword HD

Chicken nuggets

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What's up with that Marvel logo

Control stick combat... Not including twin stick shooters, I can think of MGS2, MGSR, Wondeful 101, and I count DMC2 just because of its awful sword combo system. I would say MGSR nd W101 used it very well, while the other two did not. Control stick combat is out here with a roughly 50% success rate. That's not bad, really.

Where was the blade DMC rip off game like ghost rider did

TRANS Ship Co. wow the ships are trans. good for them