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DVD store owner by day.Assassin by night.
Anton Blackwood lives between two worlds. One built on nostalgia. The other on blood. Beneath his calm exterior, something restless drives him forward.
Rows of worn-out movie cases, the hum of an old TV, and the steady presence of the woman who works there. It's a sanctuary Anton Blackwood calls home. Here, he is not the man the city fears. He is someone who can breathe, rewind, and for a moment believe in normal life.
The store is a real system, not a backdrop. Physical media is on its last legs in 2012, and ReelTime only stays open if you make it work: stock what the neighbourhood wants, price it right, keep the floor clean, feed the cat.
Order trending titles through the in-game internet. Deliveries land the next morning and have to be shelved by hand.
Adjust rental pricing as the store economy shifts. Cheap moves volume. Fair keeps them coming back.
Recommend movies to customers, clean up what they drop, keep the place presentable. Popularity brings foot traffic.
Amelie runs the counter when you can't. Time spent with her opens doors later in the story. The cat needs feeding either way.
BLACKWOOD keeps the money Anton earns in daylight apart from the money he risks his life for after dark. Each one funds a different half of him.
Earned at the counter, and through a few special jobs. It pays for the life that keeps the cover believable.
Earned on contracts. It buys power, danger and escalation, and none of it can pay the rent.
But when the shutters roll down
and the streets go quiet,
Anton heads to the basement.
Under the shop floor is a second workplace, and nothing in it is for rent. Contracts arrive by e-mail. The dark web sells the tools. Every night out starts at this desk and ends back here.
An e-mail lands on the mission computer: the target, the place, the optional challenges, the pay.
Buy, repair, or strip guns through the dark web market. What Anton carries out of the basement is what he starts the night with, but weapons and ammunition can also be taken from enemies along the way.
Choose Anton's takedowns and arrange the order they play in. More become available as you progress. Anton grew up on movies; to him, a fight isn't chaos, it's a scene.
Take the car. Leave ReelTime behind. The city is waiting.
FROM AshenBroker
SUBJ [CONTRACT] "Bottle Service"
Chamber Street station, 23:15 tonight. Stay off main streets. Change your path. Make sure no one talks. Especially not Morello.
Payment on completion. Dirty.
The mission computer, as Anton reads it. One contract a night. The price is the only thing that isn't negotiable.
New York City, 2012.
The city is a period piece. Streaming is a rumour, phones still flip, and the ads on the billboards are for airlines that don't exist. Posters, tattoos, radio broadcasts and neighbourhood decay carry the story as much as the cutscenes do.
Anton's world stretches from a strip of shopfronts in Brooklyn to the subway tunnels under Manhattan, and every location was built to be fought in.
Third-person combat that borrows from hard-boiled cinema. Precise, lethal shooting, and a body that moves like it's been in this situation before.
Every move keeps you shooting. Dive through a doorway and land on target; slide under the line of fire and come up firing.
Cover-to-cover mechanics built for pressure. Sit still and they flank you, so use it as a breath, not a home.
Pistols, SMGs, shotguns, rifles, and whatever the Black Market has in pieces. Strip damaged guns for parts and build the one you want.
Crates splinter. Glass shatters. Cars take rounds until they don't. Cover won't protect you forever.
The takedown Anton performs depends on where he's standing, where the enemy is, and what's within reach: a wall, a counter, a car door, a train pole. Every successful takedown restores a portion of his health. Choreography Mode lets you decide which ones play, and in what order.
Someone is watching Anton from the shadows. A man behind the scenes, shaping every move.
Anton thinks
he's the protagonist.
The director has been writing the script all along.
Completing a contract returns Anton to the quieter side of his routine, but the day isn't finished. Restock in the basement. Check the store before it closes.
Then sleep, because sleeping is the only thing that saves the day.
Keep scrolling. One turn of the hour hand is one day. Miss the rent twice and the day does not come round again.
BLACKWOOD is an episodic saga in three acts. Buy it once and you own the whole story. Acts Two and Three arrive as free title updates for every owner.
ACT : ONEACT : TWOACT : THREEThe earlier you buy, the less you pay. Owners never pay again.
| Minimum 1080p at 30 fps | Recommended 1080p at 60 fps | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 3600 / Intel Core i5-10400F | AMD Ryzen 5 5600X / Intel Core i5-12400F |
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1650 / Radeon RX 570 | NVIDIA RTX 3060 / Radeon RX 6600 XT |
| RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB SSD | 30 GB NVMe SSD |
BLACKWOOD contains intense violence, blood and injury detail, strong language, mature themes, tobacco use, flashing lights and high-contrast visual effects. Player discretion is advised.