Bloody Roar

Bloody Roar is a series of 3D fighting games developed by Eighting (initially as Raizing) and primarily published by Hudson Soft, centering on characters known as "zoanthropes" who possess the ability to transform into anthropomorphic beasts during combat to unleash enhanced attacks and abilities. The franchise began with the original Bloody Roar (known as Beastorizer in arcades), released in Japanese arcades in 1997 and subsequently ported to the PlayStation. The property is currently owned by Konami following their 2012 merger with Hudson Soft.

Games

Gameplay

Bloody Roar is a 3D fighting game series in the same vein as Dead or Alive, Soulcalibur, Tekken, and Virtua Fighter. The controls are largely consistent throughout the series: a button each for both punch and kick, a beast (transform/attack) button, and a fourth button that has been either a throw button, a block button, an evade button (introduced for some characters in Bloody Roar 4), or a rave button (an early version of Hyper Beast form in the original Bloody Roar only).

Characters in Bloody Roar have standard moves and command moves. Standard moves are combination style moves from fighting games such as Tekken, where the player must press different buttons to create "combos", sometimes pressing the directional pad in one of eight directions at the same time. Command moves are special moves that require a rolling technique with the directional pad while inputting certain commands, like Street Fighter. Each character has fourteen "suggested" combination techniques listed in the manuals for each game, most of these can vary in many different ways, allowing around forty to seventy combination techniques with each character. Every character also has at least eight command moves, which can be incorporated into cancel points for standard moves or combos.