Bloody Roar
Developer(s)	Hudson Soft, Eighting/Raizing
Publisher(s)	Virgin Interactive, SCEA, Activision & Konami
Release date(s)	Bloody Roar 1/Beastorizer: 1997-1998 Bloody Roar 2: 1999 Bloody Roar 3: 2001 Bloody Roar: Primal Fury: 2002 Bloody Roar Extreme: 2003 Bloody Roar 4: 2003-2004
Genre(s)	Versus fighting game
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Platform(s)	Arcade PlayStation PlayStation 2 Nintendo GameCube Xbox

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Information

The series began as an Arcade game in 1997 under the name Beastorizer. The game's theme incorporated anthropomorphism, where the player has the ability to transform into a half-human, half-animal creature known as a Zoanthrope. The game would appear under the name "Bloody Roar" when ported to the PlayStation in 1998, which would become the permanent title thereafter. There are four Bloody Roar sequels, plus two updated ports of the third game to the Nintendo GameCube and Xbox. Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... Beastorizer is a one-on-one beat em up arcade game released by 8ing/Raizing in 1997. ... The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... A sequel is a work of fiction (e. ... The Nintendo GameCube , GCN) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the sixth generation era. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ...

The following is a complete list of the games in the series:

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Gameplay

Bloody Roar has kept somewhat the same controls over the series. A button each for both punch and kick, the 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) and a rave button (An early version of the hyper beast in Bloody Roar 1 only)

Trivia

• Artist Naochika Morishita, also known as CARAMEL MAMA, has done most of the artwork for the series.
• There was a short manga series based loosely on the ideas of Bloody Roar. It was titled as, Bloody Roar: The Fang and appeared in Shonen Jump. It was drawn by Maruyama Tomowo. This is where the character Fang originated from.
• The term for the name of the beastman race, the Zoanthropes - comes from the clinical term, zoanthropy.

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See also

Bloody Roar - Characters Bloody Roar Characters // Main article: Alice the Rabbit A former nurse who helps her close friend Yugo in his non-government group to bring peace between the Zoanthropes. ...

External links

• The homepage of Bloody Roar
• PlayStation Official Bloody Roar 1 Website
• PlayStation Official Bloody Roar 2 Website
• Activision's Bloody Roar 3 Website