Bloody Roar

by Air Hendrix
January 01, 2000 00:00 AM PST

It's fast, easy to play, and the title doesn't lie - Bloody Roar is bloody-good fun. This may be the sleeper fighting-game hit of the year} {Bloody Roar sports some very polished fighters and smoothly blended polygons. It's also a fast game-until minor slowdown problems in the Ruins stage grind the game to a halt.} {A few voices and some minor animal sounds help move the game along, and the original arcade soundtrack is included in the Options menu, which is a plus. The game could have used some more explosive hit effects, though.} {The easy-to-use button configuration keeps things simple. Punch, kick, or transform are all a tap away-and the Transform button doubles as an extra Punch button when you're an animal.} {It's fast, easy to play, and the title doesn't lie-Bloody Roar is bloody-good fun. This may be the sleeper fighting-game hit of the year.

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With the competition already heating up around the Tekken 3 PlayStation release, Bloody Roar does a good job of throwing its two cents into the arena. An extremely fast and well-made fighting game, it holds its own against titles like Ter�s K�si and Tekken 2. In fact, the game will remind fighting-game fans of the original Tekken in look and Tekken 2 in speed and depth.

Roar features a plethora of pugnacious pluses, like air combos, juggles, and linking moves. But it also sports a Transform feature-with the press of a button (and a full Beast gauge), you can turn yourself into an animal alter ego such as a tiger, a gorilla, a lion, or a boar.

Graphically, the game looks blocky in some close-ups, but doesn't break up excessively (if you can handle some walls disappearing when you're near them) or pixelate when you're in close. It's like a tightly woven Fighting Vipers without the messy polygonal meshing.

Bloody Roar will be heard. It's the best you'll do until Tekken 3 comes out-and it just may give that game a run for its money.