Fast, simple combos reward button mashing, as each fighter can easily string together punches and kicks for some pretty big damage.

Apart from the characters' transformation abilities, which they can use from the first moment of any match at the press of a button, the fighters in Bloody Roar 4 are capable of the sorts of things you'd expect to see in any off-the-wall fighting game. OK, maybe all the viable giant-animal ideas have already been used up. Nagi, the new female character depicted on the cover of the game, turns into sort of a succubus rather than, say, a Chihuahua. Strangely, the designers seem to have run out of animal ideas, as many of the newer Bloody Roar characters have demonic rather than animal forms. Werewolves, weretigers, werelions, wererabbits, werebeetles, wereiguanas, and more can be found in this game, and when the fighters are in their transformed state, they're capable of longer-ranged, more-damaging moves than usual. In battle, characters can instantly shed their human skin (it actually all happens in a white flash) to become an anthropomorphic animal or some other creature. The vast majority of these characters return from previous Bloody Roars, and one thing both the old and new characters have in common is their ability to change forms. This new game features 18 different characters, who mostly look like a bunch of hipsters who'd be more at home in a dance club than in a fighting arena. It features the same sort of simple, fast-paced, good-looking action that's enabled this series to squeak by for all these years, but the addition of a few new fighters, a new mode, and some tweaks to the gameplay don't stop this from being a rather simple, shallow game.Īt a glance, the Bloody Roar games do nothing to distinguish themselves from better-known 3D fighting game series, like Virtua Fighter, Tekken, and Dead or Alive. If you've played any Bloody Roar game from over the years, on any game system, then you'll basically know what to expect from this latest installment. The most recent entries include this year's Bloody Roar Extreme for the Xbox and last year's Bloody Roar: Primal Fury for the GameCube, whereas Bloody Roar 4 brings it back home to a Sony platform. Transform into ferocious inner-beasts and attack with fangs and claw in 3D fighting areas to see who is the ultimate beast-fighter champion.ĭespite its title, Bloody Roar 4 is actually the sixth in Hudson's series of 3D fighting games, which originally debuted way back in 1997. Bloody Roar returns and is darker, bloodier and fiercer than ever! 14 returning are joined by three brand-new characters in the newest battle of the beast-fighters.

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