
::slow evil laugh:: I also got pretty far along in the game with him in single-player mode. This power I readily abused during matches. Even though he probably had the most convoluted set of moves, I managed to remember a couple of his combos. I mean, just look at the moves for Bakuryu alone! And this doesn’t include the combos! (From Bloody Roar walkthrough by Geoff Chiang. When it came to Bloody Roar, I was a button mashing fiend! (Erm, much to the other player’s dismay.) Plus, each character’s list of moves bordered on maniacal – there was no way I was going to commit to memory each and every combo! No freakin’ way. But then again, I want all fighting games to simply play like Street Fighter because that’s what I know best. That’s not to say I played the game well, because, I mean, c’mon…dat control scheme, amiright? What was that? It was kind of like the developers couldn’t decide on a decent control scheme so they took a few Street Fighter moves, mashed them into Mortal Kombat melee, and then threw in a dash of Tekken stiffness for good measure. The brightly-colored 3D characters moved quite fluidly in their 3D spaces, and the game played very well. Sure, everyone looked a bit blocky and polygonal, but faces looked like faces, hands and feet moved like hands and feet, and the beasts looked like the beasts they were supposed to be. Speaking of looks, Bloody Roar wasn’t hard on the eyes at the time.

Are you subscribed to PickleinTheMicrowave? If not, you totally should be. Maybe? Well…they also looked kind of cool.

In fact, I don’t remember there being much advantage of playing in beast mode, except that your characters could do a little more damage. Each character had a set of regular “martial arts” moves as well as special moves, but the specials weren’t particular to human or beast. Each started out as human in matches, and with enough juice in your beast-meter (that’s what I called it, though I’m sure it had a technical name), you could transform them into their animal counterparts. Bloody Roar featured a cast of eight characters, each of whom was a “zoanthrope,” which, in the case of the game, meant that they were human-animal hybrids. The tiny glimpses of the games that you got in that wacky commercial were trifles compared to the expanse of the game. (Talk about an all-around WIN!) We quickly bonded over fighting games and Bloody Roar became a favorite. Around this time I met my husband and he HAD a PlayStation and he HAD Bloody Roar. But the fates didn’t leave me hanging in that regard. Though my curiosity was piqued, there wasn’t much I could do without access to a PlayStation. My only frame of reference then was Killer Instinct Gold, which included a number of animal-based characters, but Bloody Roar appeared to be something much different. I got the basic gist that you could play as people and animals, and that somehow they were intertwined. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I had heard of Bloody Roar from a friend who knew I was a fan of fighting games, but I hadn’t actually seen the game in person. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely.

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