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To begin with, BRE is based on a PS2 game that's more than two years old - which was ported to the GC over a year ago.
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(He's also a phoenix, but I don't want to spoil my penguin moment.)Īs far as the gameplay goes, the series was way ahead of the curve in the late '90s, but has fallen behind by now. On the other hand, the last boss actually totally rocks: he's an emperor penguin, complete with flippers and a waddle and no reach. Sure, there's still a wolf, a couple tigers, a mole, and the rest, but there's also a "half beast" cat girl, an alien, and a robot. The first problem with BRE is that it seems to have lost sight of that somewhat. The premise of the Bloody Roar series is probably its biggest draw for many: the game's combatants are "Zoanthropes," or people who can change into beastly forms of themselves to dish out greater punishment. It's the closest thing to average we're going to see these days. Unfortunately, the series is beginning to fall behind the times, and BR: Extreme is a bit shopworn, but it's still a good time. The Bloody Roar series has been around since those days, and has managed to survive the great purge because of its unique theme and responsive fighting action. In the days of the original PlayStation, it was crowded with knockoffs and mistakes from just about every serious publisher. Given the genre's decline down to a few top-tier series duking it out, there's almost no such thing in the world - the average for the genre is, well, above average. All in all, considering both what Nintendo fighting fans had to deal with during the Nintendo 64 era, and what Eighting had to work with in Bloody Roar 3, Bloody Roar: Primal Fury is an excellent first release for the budding GameCube fighting game library.It's hard to even say what an "average" fighting game would be these days. Yet on the third (and final) hand, the voice acting needs quite a bit of work, as the lip-syncing is on par with your average Hong Kong action film, and most of the actors’ voices fail to match the characters.Īs is standard for pretty much all console fighting games, Primal Fury has a few hidden characters to unlock, but also features various cheats to unlock that substantially alter the game, both in visuals and gameplay mechanics. The music, on the other hand, will either be a hit or miss for many players, as the “classic” eighties styled rock might not get the blood pumping for everyone out there. Sound effects for the game are a bit above par for the course, as the beast roars, slashes, and pounding of bone against steel fences all mesh together for a solid aural experience. Backing it all up are a ton of nice and flashy lighting effects as the entire game runs at a fluid sixty frames per second. The stages, while not particularly original, are nicely done. Seeing the fur on Yugo’s wolf form flow naturally as he roars, or watching Long’s ears twitch when he is in his tiger form are certainly attention grabbers. The character models are incredibly detailed, with some very nice attention to detail in both texture work and animation. Graphically, the game looks quite stunning at times. These gameplay elements built on top of an already solid 3D fighter filled with chainable moves and combos make for an exciting, fun, and fast-paced game. Essentially an even stronger variation of the standard Beast mode, it lasts for a certain length of time and allows the player to utilize as many Beast Drive moves as they wish until the timer runs out.
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Yet another option presents itself in BR: PF with the Hyper Beast transformation which can be activated at any time at the cost of some health (depending on how full their Beast Gauge is).
Once the gauge hits that point, the fighter can turn into a beast at any time, remaining as one until their opponent knocks them out of beast mode, or once they attempt a Beast Drive move.
Changing into the beast form is dependant on the beast gauge, which fills up as you attack your opponent, and then becomes active as soon as the gauge turns yellow. Although a good deal of the fighting takes place in their human forms, fighting in each character’s respective beast form becomes very important in Primal Fury. They are much like humans except that each one has a "beast" form they can transform into at will. The core gameplay concept of the Bloody Roar series revolves around the idea that the fighters are a race separate from humans, called Zoanthropes. Bloody Roar: Primal Fury takes the original concept of Bloody Roar 3 for the PS2 and revamps it in many respects to make it a much better and more balanced game. After the fighter-deprived era of the Nintendo 64, Eighting, Hudson, and Activision have teamed up to deliver the first fighting game for the GameCube.
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