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General: Bloody
Roar is a 3D fighting game that could be compared to the likes of Tekken
3, Virtua Fighter 3, and Fighting
Vipers. As a "console" fighting game of 1998, it's expectations were
somewhat on the low side, since arcade fighting games; notibly the ones
I just mentioned, definitely had the edge. But overall, the game delivers
a good sense of style and a semi-decent fighting engine to boot.
The hook of
the Bloody Roar series is that the combatants can transform into animalistic
versions of themselves... "Blood-thirsty human-animal hybrids with a thirst
for violence," that is. Clever, yet disturbing in some cases (Greg? Fox?
WTF?). During each round you can transform into a beast when your "beast"
meter fills up. Characters in beast form are more powerful, and will have
even more moves and combos at your disposal.
Technically,
Bloody Roar isn't half bad. Both the animation and control is fairly smooth,
the sidestep game is solid, and the characters are pretty well balanced.
The combo system isn't bad either, although combos aren't quite as useful
(AKA damaging) as they are in let's say Tekken 3. While we're comparing
the two, gameplay-wise as well as graphically, Bloody Roar holds it's own,
but falls short in comparison to Namco's gem that is Tekken 3. The character
designs in Bloody Roar are also far inferior to the Tekken 3 gang as well.
It's interesting at first to see what animal each of the Bloody Roar characters
turn into, but as far as "lasting appeal" goes, BR characters just don't
have the charisma to stick around or make any kind of impact in the fighting
game world of designs...
Manufacturer: Hudson
Soft
Platforms: Playstation
Release: 1998
Characters:
Yugo,
Alice,
Greg,
Fox,
Long,
Uriko,
Mitsuko,
Bakuryu,
Gado
Related Games: Bloody Roar 2,
Bloody Roar 3, Bloody
Roar: Primal Fury, Bloody Roar 4
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Closing Comment: While Bloody Roar is definitely something trying to be innovative, it just isn't my cup of tea... I prefer the realistic type of martial arts action, and giant bunnies versus tigers just doesn't hold my interest. ~F.Yagami, Webmaster of TFG