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The Fun of it all

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hmm...the game of Bloody Roar 3...is quite fun...i was playing Bloody Roar 2 for at least 2 years....i was getting bored with the Human/Morph and slash your opponents to death with Destructive Combinations....now Bloody Roar 3 gave me a chance to broaden my horizon in fighting.so u can morph not only to a beast....but to a Larger More Powerful Creature with better attacks..i trained for a long time for the moment i played that game...mastering Bakuryu's Ninja Techniques to Decieve Your Opponents......Learning to use Long and Shenlong's Combonations to win matches.....Crushing your Enemies with Gado's Emmense strength...lead me to fight in a better,Faster,Stronger,and More Cunning Emviroment...over all i am a HUGE bloody roar fan and a master of Combonation..and thats why i rate this game 5 stars...and for all u Weak souls who cant handle fighting quick and knowing what moves to do in the right time......TAKE IT FROM ME..ONCE YOU LEARN U'LL NEVER WANT TO PUT DOWN THE CONTROLLER EVER AGAIN!

Great looking, but dulls easily

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I liked the first two Bloody Roars because of the ability to change into beasts in the middle of the battle, and the second one had a pretty good storyline for a 3D fighter. Truth be told, this game is one of the chief reasons I bought a Playstation 2 (that and the soon-to-be-released Final Fantasy X).

The graphics are incredible. They are so detailed that you can see the facial features on the characters, such as recessed and blinking eyes and moving mouths. They aren't like the flat polygons used in the other Bloody Roars...in fact, you'll be hard-pressed to find sharp edges anywhere on the bodies. The arenas are also composed of polygons, and they look as good as the characters. Too bad that you can only blow out a wall on the final round...I miss being able to knock the opponent out of bounds! All these graphics, and the game doesn't slow down at all. Amazing!

Unfortunately, now we get into an area that Bloody Roar 3 lacks...new ideas. There is an arcade mode, a multiplayer mode, practice mode, and a survival mode. In other words, it's like all the other 3D fighters. And all of the characters from the second Bloody Roar are back, with only one new initial character (who looks like a cross between Alucard from Castlevania and Sephiroth from FF7), and two other characters that are unlockable, for a total of fourteen characters. Sure, I like the original characters, but most of them have been around since the first Bloody Roar, and their moves have remained largely unchanged...time for something new! As for the in-battle differences, the only new things are an extra beast-drive move and a hyper-beast mode, which makes you do tremendous damage, but when ten seconds elapses, you turn back to human and you can't become a beast for the rest of the fight. Weeeee.

The gameplay, as I said before, was very fast and smooth on the Playstation 2...maybe TOO fast. Since the first BR, I've noticed an increased focus on combos. I'm not a *hardcore* 3D fighter, so my when I'm going up against an opponent that won't even let me move because he's pulling off a 10 hit combo, which tosses me in the air so that he gets off another 10 hits "juggling" me in the air, and then gets off ANOTHER 5 hits while I'm down on the ground, needless to say, I get frustrated very quickly. Sure, there is a way to block these things, but as I said, the thing moves FAST, so most of the time, I don't have a chance to pull it off. And don't bother doing combos of your own; most of the time, the CPU blocks it all in the later stages. I'm having problems on the final levels on a dificulty setting of ONE. Well, as I said, I'm not *hardcore.* After about two hours, it got rather boring.

Unfortunately, the good storyline of the second BR is gone in BR3. All you get is a slideshow at the start and the end, all of which makes no sense, unlike BR2, where there is a slideshow in between each battle, and some storylines cross each other and make SENSE. If I have to suffer five hundred gillion hit combos, then I at least want it to be WORTH something.

Being a 3D fighter, BR3 has a multiplayer mode. Well, my friend just happens to be non-*hardcore* just like me, except his temper is even shorter than mine when it comes to being juggled in the air with a multi-hit combo. (His favorite fighter is Super Smash Brothers...go figure) Needless to say, he got intensly frustrated, and trust me, it is no fun playing with someone that is ready to throw the controller through the TV.

Overall, Bloody Roar 3 is a game that looks absolutely incredible, but a lack of a good storyline and an insufficient number of new features makes BR3 a weekend-rental title, unless you are a fan of the series.

bloody roar 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: July 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't have words to rate this game.Simply one of the greatest games I ever played!

Great game, but gets boring fast

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Gameplay: Still the same as Bloody roar 1&2 gameplay turn into beast. The game has no slowdowns it runs at a blazing 60(fps) and has amazing lighting effects.

Control: It just a button mashing game there is no direct moves it doesnt have very many combos it always does the same moves over and over again

Sound: The sound is terrible it needed a lot of work it didn't get all the characters talk soft and you can hardily hear them This needed more work than anything in the game.

Graphics: Nice, but needs some work on the textures in the backgrounds the characters are nicely model, it just doesn't push the PS2 graphical power like it should.

Fun Factor: It just doesn't offer much I recommend you buy a different game like Gran turismo 3 A-spec or something else

*Sigh*

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was really impressed with the first Bloody Roar. It was fast, had lots of moves, and the characters were original. Then the second one came out, better graphics, slow as hell. So now Bloody Roar 3 came out, how exciting!!! Some new characters, barely any moves, to be honest graphics weren't that great (for PS2) and finally when I put a game on the easiest skill level I expect the game to cut me some slack, but when...if you get to the last boss, Uranus, dont be to dissapointed when you have to play the whole game again because you couldn't touch or block her. Great idea big dissapointment.

GAME TOO STIFF

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I OWN THIS GAME. THE GAME IS OK IF YOU LIKE THE BLOODY ROAR SERIES. THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAD WAS THAT THE PLAYERS DON'T HAVE A VARIETY OF MOVES. ONE PUNCH AND KICK BUTTON DOES GIVE YOU THAT MUCH OF AN OPTION IN FIGHTING GAMES. BUT ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS THAT IT HAS GOOD GRAPHICS.

Good arena fighting game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm more of casual gamer, with interests in large scale strategic and simulator type games. But I actually enjoy playing this game.

Things I liked - Graphics are nice. fighting moves are abundant, different arenas though I don't know if they have any effect on how your characters work but a few of them have different things about them that you have to be careful when fighting.

What I also really liked was this 'practice area' that allowed you to adjust many reaction settings in the 'practice dummy' you were fighting. And you can adjust it a lot of times.. not just once and go and restart.. but you can adjust it after you've been playing to try different things out without having to go back and prepare for anything. It's a fight and pause 'adjust settings' quickly if you want kind of thing. The practice feature is really nice.

Things I did not like - I noticed a bit of load time but thats more of a hardware issue. What really bugged me, is to me it seemed to lack much fictional content in game to support the characters 'more'. Yes the game allows anyone to play an assortment of characters good or bad and it is a fighting game. BUT I think a company could do better in terms of saying..
"here you go a fighting game". They did put some text content but it felt so little and from what I saw it felt really disapointing in terms of who I would have to fight. Turns out I ended up fighting the characters that supported my characters. Turning it into 'just a fighting game'

Again I do enjoy playing this game. It is pretty fun. I love the practice area that allows you to adjust the 'practice dummy' in how it reacts.

I give it 4 stars. It's fun to play alone (especially in practice session) and with people. I give its life span enjoyment - a middle life span. (Which I think is pretty good for a fighting game) it will rise and than slowly steady with someone else's rest of the game. A good likable game. :)

More fun if you play with someone.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are cool, and the music is cool(for only two stages). There's a lot of good combos, but what I like about this game, is that there's always some kind of move that you didn't know about and trying to figure it out keeps you playing. But other than that, the game is fun....a lot more fun if you play with a friend...it tends to get humorus after a while(since the characters...in particular Yugo...sound like DORKS in the English version). But like I said...if you have this game, grab a friend.

Bloody Good Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

To be honest, I don't actually OWN the game, but I did play it quite a bit at a friend's house [2 hours straight, at least]. I must say, being anti-PS2, I was convinced this would be nothing more than a graphics-bonanza. However, I was quickly shut up by the intuitive multi-player gameplay [no single-player for me; not with two screaming teenagers behind me waiting to play!]. The moves are very original, the lightning speed is great, and the creatures [the morphs, anyway] look so cool, I just had to notice! I might add, however, that it was a bit too flashy, literally. It seemed everytime to pressed a button, a hundred different lights went off, either for a beam, and quick move, or something else. This's a pretty common staple in Japanese games, but it gets annoying when you can't figure out who did the damage!

All in all a very interesting and fun game. Wouldn't recommend it unless you've either got a good friend, or a lot of time for the single-player mode on your hands, though!

xlent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well first of all I have to say it was a really cool game. The first time I got it, it was amazing. Humans, real human beings morphing into super natural animals. And the all the specials and combos were so unique. The graphics are xlent and the sound is awesome.

Overall this game rocks. If your looking for a good fighting game, get this or one of the Tekken games. They`re awesome!

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