Bloody Roar
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| Developer(s) | Hudson Soft, Eighting/Raizing |
| Publisher(s) | Virgin Interactive, SCEA, Activision & Konami |
| Release date(s) | Bloody Roar 1/Beastorizer: 1997-1998 Bloody Roar 2: 1999 Bloody Roar 3: 2001 Bloody Roar: Primal Fury: 2002 Bloody Roar Extreme: 2003 Bloody Roar 4: 2003-2004 |
| Genre(s) | Versus fighting game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Platform(s) | Arcade PlayStation PlayStation 2 Nintendo GameCube Xbox |
Bloody Roar (ブラッディロア) is a series of fighting games created by Hudson Soft, and developed together with Eighting. The series has been published by multiple companies, including, Virgin Interactive, Activision and Konami.
Hudson Soft later became a subsidiary of Konami
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The series began as an Arcade game in 1997 under the name Beastorizer. The game's theme incorporated anthropomorphism, where the player has the ability to transform into a half-human, half-animal creature known as a Zoanthrope. The game would appear under the name "Bloody Roar" when ported to the PlayStation in 1998, which would become the permanent title thereafter. There are four Bloody Roar sequels, plus two updated ports of the third game to the Nintendo GameCube and Xbox.
The following is a complete list of the games in the series:
| Title | Year | Platforms |
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| Beastorizer | 1997 | Arcade |
| Bloody Roar 1 | 1997/1998 | PlayStation |
| Bloody Roar 2: The New Breed/Bringer of the New Age | 1999 | PlayStation |
| Bloody Roar 3 | 2001 | PlayStation 2 |
| Bloody Roar: Primal Fury | 2002 | Nintendo GameCube |
| Bloody Roar Extreme | 2003 | Microsoft Xbox |
| Bloody Roar 4 | 2003/2004 | PlayStation 2 |
[edit] Gameplay
Bloody Roar has kept somewhat the same controls over the series. A button each for both punch and kick, the beast (transform/attack) button and a fourth button that has been either a throw button, a block button, an evade button (Introduced for some characters in Bloody Roar 4) and a rave button (An early version of the hyper beast in Bloody Roar 1 only)
[edit] Trivia
- Artist Naochika Morishita, also known as CARAMEL MAMA, has done most of the artwork for the series.
- There was a short manga series based loosely on the ideas of Bloody Roar. It was titled as, Bloody Roar: The Fang and appeared in Shonen Jump. It was drawn by Maruyama Tomowo. This is where the character Fang originated from.
- The term for the name of the beastman race, the Zoanthropes - comes from the clinical term, zoanthropy.
