Bloody Roar 3 is a brawler

Fighting game

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 arcade video game

Arcade game

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 developed by Eighting and Hudson Soft

Hudson Soft

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. It is the first of the series to appear on the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

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. Its successor, Bloody Roar: Primal Fury

Bloody Roar: Primal Fury

Bloody Roar: Primal Fury, also known as Bloody Roar: Extreme on the Xbox and the Japanese GameCube version, is a fighting video game developed by Eighting and published by Hudson Soft in 2002, and later the same year by Activision in North America and in the PAL region...

 was created for the Nintendo GameCube

Nintendo GameCube

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 and was later ported to the Xbox

Xbox

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 as Bloody Roar: Extreme.

Gameplay

The Gameplay (the controls) had six different buttons and the commands would be; punch, kick, throw, beast form, and side-step left and right with L2 and R2, which can also be done by double tap down or up to side-step. The main feature is still the ability to transform into beasts, which is involved in all of the Bloody Roar games. Once the character transforms, they regain all the health they have lost and become much stronger and powerful than before. You do have the ability to wait to get "hyper beast form", in which it's like a super version of beast form, although you can only use it for roughly twelve seconds.

Note

• In the Japanese version, there is a cheat code to access at the Debug mode. The developers forgot to remove this mode from the final version, though it was removed in the American and European versions.

External links

• Namco page
• Bloody Roar 3 at GameSpot
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• Bloody Roar 3 at Giant Bomb
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