Game:

Bloody Roar 3 (2000)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 11:52

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I think this is the last Bloody Roar game that I haven't made a video for, which means I've finished off my BR collection (now arcade versions of the games are a different story). Bloody Roar 3 is what I'd consider the "second" worst BR game, with only BR4 being worse than it. One could forgive it as it was rushed to PS2 to diversify its early line-up, but it still doesn't hold a candle to BR2. The game doesn't look leaps and bounds better than BR2 and doesn't seem to have an over-abundance of special effects like BR2 either. The character models don't look too shabby though and the environments at least don't look foggy or suffer slowdown like BR4.

The game's opening is lame and seems tossed together and it seems to re-use some artwork from BR2, and the load times are not kind. The reason I'm kind of talking about this game the way I am is because while I've had it for years, I've never played it until now (I hadn't had a PS2 that could read blue-bottom discs). The story scenes look incredibly lazy, though they still used 2D artwork and such for some things, where as the later games were trying to phase that out entirely. The fighting is generally the same, although the controls seem a bit sensitive. This was the first BR game to introduce more than one Beast Drive and the last time Alice would wear an interesting outfit, not look fat (in rabbit form), and remotely look like the original Alice from BR1.

The game has what the case considers 14 playable characters and 9 interactive 3D arenas. There are also a variety of unlockable modes, such as High Speed Battle, No Guard, Sumo Wrestling, etc. The audio is high quality and the game would be way more tolerable with lower load times...however, I don't find the music of this particular game to be better than BR2 and BR2 had TWO amazing soundtracks...so that's hard to beat. BR1 was the first and a good entry game, so for reasons like that, I can't really fault it all that much...and BR3 is outclassed by the later "Primal Fury/Extreme" expansion, in terms of visuals and such...they are generally an upgrade of BR3 and probably are my second favorite, outside of BR2. BR3 isn't so bad, but it still would technically be the second worst one for me, because I kind of overlook BR1. This is a video of the game in action. Enjoy.

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