Bloody Roar: Primal Fury, also known as Bloody Roar: Extreme on the Xbox and the Japanese GameCube version, is a fighting

Fighting game

Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...

 video game developed by Eighting and published by Hudson Soft

Hudson Soft

, formally known as , is a majority-owned subsidiary of Konami Corporation is a Japanese electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo. It was founded on May 18, 1973...

 in 2002, and later the same year by Activision

Activision

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 in North America

North America

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 and in the PAL region

PAL region

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. It is an updated version of the PlayStation 2 game, Bloody Roar 3

Bloody Roar 3

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.

Characters

• Yugo the Wolf
• Alice the Rabbit
• Long the Tiger
• Gado the Lion
• Kōryū the Iron Mole
• Uriko the Half Beast
• Stun the Insect
• Shina the Leopard
• Jenny the Bat
• Busuzima the Chameleon
• Shenlong the Tiger
• Xion the Unborn

Unlockable characters

• Uranus the Chimera
• Cronos the Phoenix/Penguin
• Ganesha the Elephant
• Khoryu the Iron Mole

Bonus character

• Fang the Wolf, was not included in the Western Nintendo GameCube
  Nintendo GameCube
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   release, though he was included in the Japanese Gamecube version and the Western and Japanese Xbox versions.

Development

The game was directed by Kenji Fukuya, with Shoji Fukuda and Naoto Naruse serving as assistant directors. The game was designed by Tetsu Ozaki, with Nobuyuki Irie serving as his assistant. Yuichi Ochiai served as the game's lead programmer, with the other programmers consisting of Kenji Shibayama, Toshikaza Sahoda, Hiroyuki Matsui and Toshiaki Furusato. Kiyotaka Isako served as the game's storyboard artist and animation director. The music was composed by Hiromichi Furuya, with Kenmi serving as the score's guitarist. The sound effects were created by Osamu Narita. The Japanese voice cast features Hideo Ishikawa

Hideo Ishikawa

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 as Yūgo, Ruri Asano

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 as Alice, Ryōtarō Okiayu

Ryotaro Okiayu

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 as Long, Chris Wells as Alan Gadou, Takeshi Aono

Takeshi Aono

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 as Kōryū, Marina Ōno

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 as Uriko, Greg Dale as Stun, Rumiko Varnes as Mabel, Donna Burke

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 as Jenny, Kazumi Tanaka

Kazumi Tanaka

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 as Hajime Buzujima, Junko Noda

Junko Noda

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 as Kakeru Ōgami/Bakuryū, Bill Sullivan as Shenlong, John Nuzzo as Xion, Eriko Fujimaki

Eriko Fujimaki

is a female Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan and is employed by Aoni Production.-Anime:*Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden*Green Green*Guruguru Town Hanamaru-kun*Hikaru no Go*Madeline-Games:*Green Green*Tales of Destiny...

 as Uranus, Tomohiro Tsuboi

Tomohiro Tsuboi

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 as Cronos, Shōzō Iizuka

Shozo Iizuka

is a male Japanese voice actor from Fukushima Prefecture who is affiliated with Sigma Seven. He graduated from the fine arts department of Nihon University....

 as Ganesha and Eiji Sekiguchi as Fang. The English voices were recorded at Screenmusic Studios; the cast of the English version consists of Dee Bradley Baker

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 (as "Dee Baker"), Michael Bell

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, Earl Boen

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, Cam Clarke

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, Lara Cody

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, Paul Eiding

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, Quinton Flynn

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, Michael Gough

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, Jennifer Hale

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, Lex Lang

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, Vanessa Marshall

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 and Tasia Valenza

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