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.

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. 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. 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.

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. We had the chance to check out a build of the game to see how it was coming together.īloody Roar Extreme features all the improvements added to the GameCube release and some new Xbox-exclusive additions as well. The latest incarnation of the game features all the improvements added to the GameCube release and some new Xbox-exclusive additions as well. 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 game underwent some retooling and was renamed Bloody Roar Primal Fury when Activision released it for the Nintendo GameCube last year. The third installment in the series, Bloody Roar 3, has been evolving since it was first released on the PlayStation 2 in 2001. Unlike the Virtua Fighter or Tekken franchises, the Bloody Roar games have offered very fast and flashy arcade-style gameplay. In an effort to demonstrate their mercenaries' strength to foreign powers and train additional soldiers, the Kingdom holds a Zoanthrope fighting tournament, with the winner earning the title of 'Strongest Zoanthrope' and a large cash prize.Hudson's Bloody Roar series, first introduced in 1997, has offered a very distinct alternative experience in the 3D fighting genre. Rumors also persist that the Kingdom is conducting some sort of experiments on Zoanthropes, all while some citizens object to its authoritarian rule, threatening the ideal of peace for all Zoanthropes. This new land, however, relies heavily on Zoanthrope soldiers and mercenaries as a source of income, selling their service to various foreign countries. Roughly 80 percent of its residents are Zoanthropes, though both Zoanthropes and humans are considered equal. ' With human-Zoanthrope relations still unstable, a place called the Kingdom of Zoanthropes is founded to help end oppression and conflict. Despite being a 3D fighting game, it plays much more similarly to 2D fighting games, with a larger focus on the horizontal and vertical axes over sidestepping. It is a 3D 1v1 fighting game with a unique transforming mechanic and heavy use of various cancelling mechanics, which makes it stand out among other fighting games.

Bloody Roar Extreme is a fighting game co-developed by Hudson and Eighting, which acts as an updated version of Bloody Roar: Primal Fury.

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