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Original, atmospheric, and fun. What else can you ask for?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: May 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was amazed by the flood of less-than-enthusiastic reviews this game received, even in respected presses like Famitsu or Dreamcast Magazine of Japan. Given the developer's track record (they also did Blue Stinger, one of the earliest Dreamcast games), I was very surprised at how it lived up to and surpassed my expectations.

I was very impressed at the level of completeness and polish the game looked and felt, and it was certainly worth the wait since the first screen shots appeared a year ago. This game may not feature moving facial features on the characters or cutting edge graphics, but this is not one of those Resident Evil games either, where they rushed the game out the door only to release a "complete edition" a year later. This game, unlike the Resident Evil clones out there, is quite original in its approach to the survival horror genre. The stages are littered with shock events (traps), enemy ambushes, and puzzles. You can avoid shock events by flagging them with your Horror Monitor. The flagging drains your adrenalin, and you can gain adrenalin by approaching a flagged trap, successfully defeating the enemy, or by using refill items. Most of the puzzles are fairly easy and straightforward, you don't really need to go out and buy a guidebook if you get stuck - go back and check out things you might have missed, and check your inventory for odd items that might have a use somewhere. Combat can also be avoided by using the escape helicopter, unlike in the Resident Evil games. There are 4 in-game camera angles which you can change on the fly, which adds to replay value. The action is fast, there is rarely a moment of slowdown due to too many onscreen objects.

The premise of this game is simple: you are at a theme park where the attractions are based on B-movies from a demented horror film producer, and you are only there because you have to rescue your stupid friends, who went to the theme park against your advice. If you manage to survive all the attractions, you will be awarded a hundred million dollars (in the game, not in real life, unfortunately).

As you rescue your friends, they become available as a playable character in the following stages. Each character offer different advantages and disadvanges - some are good fighters, while others are less prone to shocks, etc. Along the way you will pick up upgrade items that can enhance your body or mind, which allows you to customize and upgrade your characters so they can face the remaining stages. This adds great replay value as you can modify your characters and experiment with different combinations of improved heart rate, bleeding rate, health points, or adrenaline. Early in the game, when your cash reserve is low, you also must balance how you spend your cash between physical upgrades and purchase of refill/healing items.

There are 6 main attractions in the theme park, they must be solved in a linear order, and before you can claim your prize you must fight 1 of 3 final bosses (your choice, luckily). Each attraction is based on a horror B-movie produced by the theme park's owner, Michael Reynolds. So for each attraction, you get a different story that unfolds as you explore the stage, and the mood is different between the stages, too. In fact, you get to assume diffferent roles in some of these stages, literally putting you right in the lead character's skin, including what appears to be an adult version of Toy Story (wink, wink). This shows off the game engine's adaptability to create an entirely different game and the developer's imagination. Some stages are also set up so you need to solve it differently than what you learned to solve the previous stage. The game's developer really went out of their way to make this a varied experience that's always fun. The music is also fitting and create the appropriate mood for each stage.

Battle is inevitable as most stages end with a boss fight, and while exploring, you are more than likely to encounter some grotesque creatures that would love to inflict bodily harm on you. The battle system is pretty straightforward, and much easier than what has evolved in the Resident Evil series. I think those who complained about it were expecting something they are used to and did not give the game's system a fair chance. This game has a steep learning curve, which you probably won't get 100% until stage 3, and many of these negative game reviewers probably did not even manage to clear the first stage. I spent the first night working on the first stage (the in-game tutorial isn't the greatest, thank goodness for Internet FAQs) while learning the ropes. By the 2nd and 3rd night the game becomes extremely addictive as the game's controls become second nature. You'll probably want to have a backup controller on standby - I wore one out because the game gets extremely intense sometimes.

This game has certainly earned its "Mature" rating - blood gushes by gallons, the blood and gore is really over the top, makes the creatures and blood factor in Resident Evil look tame by comparison. The lead character, Eriko, will also gradually lose her clothes if she fails to rescue her friends (it's possible to clear the stages while letting your friends die), giving you plenty of incentive to replay the game using just her and letting all her friends die (there are at least 3 different endings and to see one of them you have to do exactly that). ^_^ This is certainly not a game for little kids - some of the stuff in the game can be quite disturbing, like some realistically rendered creatures, suggestive themes and atmosphere, which were enhanced/heightened by the mostly ambient background music and sound effects. If you are a horror movie fan and love the B-movies' tongue-in-cheek style of humor, chances are you will love this game. It's kind of sad, but if this game came out a year earlier than it did, it just might have saved the Dreamcast from being canned by Sega.

BEST GAME FOR DREAMCAST EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Illbleed is probably the best game I have ever played for Dreamcast. (Maybe one of the best games, period) The Storyline and objective of the game is very inventful and imaginative. The gameplay is extremely good and the game is scary as...[heck] It takes a few tries to get use to what you have to do, but once you learn it is so much fun. There are 6 levels and they are all outstanding. The game is tough but not impossible. It took me 9 hours to beat it. (Over 3 days)

This game is a must have for any fans of the horror game genre. Loads of fun and creative levels make this one a winner. 5 stars and then some...

This game is awsome, and quite freaky as well.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The perfect game for those horror game fans. Nothing like resident evil, or anything like that. This game is all about gore and freakin you out. A story similar to the film "House on Haunted Hill" where you get money for surviving. Instead of surviving just a house, in this game you must make it through a gauntlet of horror films on your way to hopefully a 200,000,000 dollar prize. 4 playable characters, freakish and very original and entertaining monsters and villians keep this game and you on the edge. I love this game and I think it will keep any gamer entertained for hours on end. With just enough difficulty and action, and it's large ammount of violence and gore this game is something else. I highly reccomend that kids not play this if their parents can help it:) just kidding

One of the best games, ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is awsome, it is different, original, and deffinately a survival horror game. I don't like to consider the "levels" levels, I call them stories. Because each movie you see, or story, has it's own special story. Each story is too long and different to be considered a level. Anyway buy this game it is the one of the best.

This game is good, play it if you get a chance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I admit this game can be a little frustrating at first.. but it gets really good, you may not be able to get past the first level until you sit down and actually set ur mind to the game. honestly id say that the first level is the hardest, i couldnt beat it myself until i sat down and actually played instead if getting frustraited and giving up.. later on you will get more money and be able to afford upgrade operations and adrenaline.
in this game you will be going through the cinema zone having to follow where traps are with the horror monitor and following your four senses(sight, smell, hearing, and sixth sense) the sixth sense senses battles and items, when a battle it near it will blink with a blue shadow thing or something.. but blue means battle and when it stays green there are items.. some levels have item sensors.. i think just in the first two levels. The first boss is basically the hardest one you will encounter. first you have to escape from his practice room because he is invincable then you have to run through a maze and try to avoid him, if you get in any battles with him, escape. finally you will come to a room where you see one of your friends and a gas leak will be going on.. banballow shows up and you can finally kill him. dont get too excited though, after you beat him you will go up the stairs and have to fight a GIANT banballow which is invincable.. you have to jump around these blocks and try to avoid his attacks. you will come to a fork in the path.. turn off to the right path to come up to a control room and you have to kill the guy running banballow (not hard) then you have to get an id card from the same room. finally you can leave and go back to the fork and go to the goal. you must stop before the goal area and use the id card, the gate will open then you can leave. The only other thing of to say is that the game is good, and the fighting controlls are easy. you just press y in a series of three to make a combination, and when you get some long range weapons you must press the right trigger to use them. Its a good game if you just figure it out.. i got the game for christmas in 2003 and i gave up on it for a long time and just beat it now in june, once i really started playing it, it seemed a hell of alot easier and more fun.. you run into a bunch of crazy adventures.. anyone who rated this game a one is just stupid and probably never got through the first level.. if i rated this game when i first got it, i probably would have been one of those. If anyone needs any help with there game, email me at bopropanop_bopropanop@hotmail.com again this is a really great game and is kind of challenging.. personally i think the graphics could have been a hell of alot better.. but dont go by reviews.. buy the game and see for yourself. also try buying from vglq.com they dont have as wide a selection as amazon but they are alot cheaper for the most part.

Don't listen to the one star givers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I must say, that anyone who has given this game one star is stupid. This game was fun on many levels. It had survival horror, comedy, and excitement. There was bad voice acting, but on purpose to add to the B Horror movie surroundings and plot. The graphics were excellent, except for the fact that the mouths don't move. The soundtrack is great, sadly.......There is no soundtrack for sale. And, lastly, I want to say that this game is given 5 stars only because there is not an option for anything higher. DO NOT listen to these brainless and psychotic people who have no taste what-so-ever. If the game sucked so much, than they wouldn't be porting it on the XBOX.

SCARY AS HELL!!!!! Need it for XBOX or PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

IM ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT GETTING A NEW DREAMCAST BECAUSE HAVING THE GAME AND NOT BEING ABLE TO PLAY IT IS A TOTAL WASTE, I WISH THAT THE COMPANY AND THE DEVELOPERS COULD TAKE IT OUT FOR XBOX OR PS2, TRUST ME IF YOU LIKE, RESIDENT EVIL, FATAL FRAME, SILENT HILL, CLOCK TOWER, OR THE NEW THE HAUNTING, YOU WONT BE DISSAPOINTED BY THIS ONE, IT'S HARD, FUN AND IT WILL MAKE YOU JUMP OUT OF YOUR SEAT ALMOST EVERY 2 MINUTES. FOR ME IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES OF THIS GENRE.

One of the best horror games on DC! Classic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Seriously Hard. If you get pwned a lot, don't worry, it's part of the fun. You basically have three health bars, one for health, one for stamina, and one for fear. If any of them gets too low, you die- which makes sense in a nightmare world that literally is an amusement park based on several horror films- you must fight through all of them- cheat if you can, because you'll need it. Very rewarding when you beat even one stage- if you don't give up easily and LOVE in-your-face pop-up horror, this is the game for YOU!

Be careful where you step!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

General/Summary: This game was given very mediocre reviews but I found the experience to be a real positive and fun time. I think the theme and premise to this game is a real unique one. The game could have used a little more work I think but overall is good. Gameplay: I'll get this off my chest right away. The actual fighting mechanism stinks. It is very difficult to manuever about and is a button mashing nightmare that rivals the nightmarish theme of the game. If this had been tweaked the gameplay rating would have been higher for me. Trying to escape via the helicopter is very hard because it is hard to tell when you are lined up properly to grab the ladder. It's true that in a real situation like that it would be hard to escape but this is a little ridiculous. Also, if you don't find the one weapon per level, fighting creatures is hopeless with only your fists. Add this to the trouble escaping and you get the picture. You have to restart from your last save. No easy task given all the traps. This next part of the game is the fun part for me. The horror monitor for detecting possible traps is easy to use provided you have the adrenaline. It detects everything but not everything is a trap. It is pretty much all hit and miss but fun. Using items is cumbersome. You have to go to a menu. It would have been nice to be able to map them to a button. Also there is no way to pause a game. The clock is always running so be warned.

Graphics: The graphics don't take advantage of the power of the DC but are quite good and approprite to the game, although they are a little redundant. The characters look OK but their lips don't move when talking. Wish I could do that at work. HA-HA!

Sound: The music fits the horror theme but is nothing special. The characters speak a little. Other sound effects are pretty well done I think.

The game cult B Horror movie fans have been waiting for!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Picking this game up on the first day is always a risk, but I did it anyway because of the look and feel of the advertisements. This game is in no way a horrific, thriller with a deep plot. The game is set up as a theme park built by a fictional b movie director, split into 6 different levels based on his 6 different movies. The stories are off the wall, such as a mixture between Toy Story and Puppet Master where you are a Woody-type toy who has to go to Hell to save his toy girlfriend Sexydoll. The stories are made to be funny, not horrifying. There is massive amounts of blood, and the scares come through things jumping out at you, not like the psychological scares of games like Silent Hill. This game won't haunt you, just startle you and then you'll laugh at the ridiculousness of the frightful blood spraying out of a shower head or hand reaching out of a pile of goo. Just remember, this game takes some time to get accustomed to. I was very frustrated trying to learn the game and played the first half hour of the first level three times before I got the nack of it. Then it comes very easily. It doesn't help that the tutorial is almost hidden in the beginning. The rest of the game is smooth sailing. I knocked off a star because of the controls. Fighting is difficult, but it is easier when you understand the strategy of it. But the aspects of the game, although few, where you have to do mindless jumping at the right time are a pain in the neck, but you stick with them to see the game progress. Just remember - the block button keeps you from all danger in battle, no matter how ridiculous it seems. The implementation of the different senses and the innovative stories are great. It's a surprise this game came from such a small company - you can tell the creators loved this game. By the way, surprisingly enough, they have a free hint line with an extremely helpful crew with no waiting! Play on horror buffs!

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