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Hudson and Konami bring animal fighting action to the Xbox.
Hudson's Bloody Roar series, first introduced in 1997, has offered a very distinct alternative experience in the 3D fighting genre. Unlike the Virtua Fighter or Tekken franchises, the Bloody Roar games have offered very fast and flashy arcade-style gameplay. The third installment in the series, Bloody Roar 3, has been evolving since it was first released on the PlayStation 2 in 2001. The game underwent some retooling and was renamed Bloody Roar Primal Fury when Activision released it for the Nintendo GameCube last year. History looks to be repeating itself in 2003 as Konami aims to release another version of the game that has been tweaked and renamed Bloody Roar Extreme for Microsoft's Xbox this year. The latest incarnation of the game features all the improvements added to the GameCube release and some new Xbox-exclusive additions as well. We had the chance to check out a build of the game to see how it was coming together.
The game's premise still focuses on the various "zoanthrope" fighters, humans subjected to a variety of experiments by the Tylon Corporation in order to create warriors that have a combination of human and animal traits. Having brought down the corporation in Bloody Roar 2, the various zoanthropes are trying to go about their lives--although it's always a bit hard to go "civilian" when you can morph into a humanoid animal. In Bloody Roar Extreme all the characters are participating in a contest put on by King Orion, who is funding research to discover the secret of the zoanthropes' morphing ability. While there isn't a huge emphasis on the game's story, it is dealt with in a short intro sequence, which gives you a rough idea of what's going on, and in the Xbox-exclusive CG endings for each character when you finish the arcade mode with them.
If you're familiar with Bloody Roar Primal Fury on the GameCube, you'll notice that Bloody Roar Extreme offers all the new modes and characters that were added to the original Bloody Roar 3 game. You'll find the standard arcade and survival modes along with time attack, team battle, and training modes. You'll also find a versus team-battle multiplayer mode in addition to the standard versus mode. The game will also have a few hidden modes that will be unlocked by playing through the different available modes.
You'll find the same mix of old and new in Bloody Roar Extreme's roster and stages. You'll start the game with 14 characters--12 familiar faces and two newcomers. Chronos the bird and Ganesha the elephant are two new faces that were unlockable characters in Bloody Roar Primal Fury. Each character will have two new original outfits for the game as well. In addition to the sizable roster of fighters, Bloody Roar Extreme will feature a new character exclusive to the Xbox. The game's nine stages reuse the old and new locales seen in Bloody Roar Primal Fury. The aircraft carrier, the building rooftop, and the back alley are remodeled environments used in the original Bloody Roar 3. The other six backgrounds--a Chinese temple, an aquarium, a freeway at night, an Indian palace, a laboratory, and a Japanese castle--are original rings brought over from Primal Fury.
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- May 27, 2003
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