Bethesda brings out buckets of blood with Battlecry, its new online team action combat game (hands-on preview)

Bethesda Softworks is unveiling a new online game called Battlecry today that enables players to engage in stylistically bloody combat that will leave them laughing after every blood-soaked match. That was my reaction after playing, or rather slaughtering, a bunch of press colleagues at a recent event.

This free-to-play multiplayer-only game has so much blood that you have to laugh; it’s akin to the experience of watching Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill with its rivers of gore. But the comic-inspired art is stylistic, with Battlecry’s warriors outfitted in Victorian-era regalia. I found the game to be fun. But the question is for how long will gamers play something like this.