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The full retail version featured all four original episodes as well as expanded weapons, multiplayer mode, and bonus features like the music video for the Type O Negative song " Love You to Death". Like most games of its time, the developers garnered attention for the game by releasing the first episode as shareware. Perhaps it's the horror aspect that we find so compelling-the challenge of uniting artwork, monster behavior (AI), weapons, sound, level design, and special effects into an experience that will both frighten and entertain players of all skill levels."- Blood Website
"Blood is already revealing itself to be rich and multi-dimensional, and as every day brings it a little closer to fruition, we recognize new possibilities and add new details to create the most immersive, terrifying 3D game we can. The game falls in the first-person shooter category and has an arsenal of curious weapons, numerous enemies, and liberal amounts of gore. It was also the first Build engine game to feature voxels and simulated room-over-room, which were both also seen in Shadow Warrior a few months later. The game became well-known for its copious amounts of violence and numerous stylistic and cultural references to literary and cinematic horror works. It was developed by Monolith Productions and published by GT Interactive and distributed in Europe by Eidos.
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With cultists, gargoyles, zombies, hellhounds, and an unholy host of other terrors, Blood immerses you in a world of horror unlike any you've experienced before."- Monolith websiteīlood (sometimes informally called Blood: Spill Some or Blood 3D) is a PC computer game released for MS-DOS on May 31, 1997. You'll engage in a nightmarish battle against the minions of an ancient, forgotten god bent on wiping humanity from the face of the earth. Visit a dark world populated by hundreds of bloodthirsty enemies. Nothing here really screams innovation, but then if you’re a fan of this type of game, this will be a solid entry in your list of rogue-lite games."Blood is the goriest, bloodiest, most horrific 3D first-person action game ever made. It does what it needs to and does it with a solid attempt. Runs are somewhat short, much like Isaac. The menu is slightly better than basic, allowing you change how it looks to certain degrees. Visually it’s got a strong pre-GBA SP aesthetic reminding me a weird side scrolling asteroid shooter with its yester-gen cartridge. It’s somewhat of a struggle to recommend this game despite its lack of inherent flaws. But like many complaints within the “rogue genre”, your runs are somewhat luck-dependent based on encounters, some being tougher than others, combined with the weapons. Power ups and upgrades feel incremental and somewhat lacklustre in some regards. In this regard, it’s somewhat reminiscent of Enter the Gungeon. Its slight saving grace is that the game has the now somewhat set in stone attributes of a expected Rogue-lite game with overall progression. Lacking the finesse and sheer absurdity, it passes itself as a lesser game in that genre. Compared to the enemies and the life system, this game doesn’t hit the ballpark of an expected bullet hell. I-frames couldn’t be discerned if you avoid taking damage, unless you have the teleport upgrade. Lacking the pixel hitbox, the chunky ship you embody can do a dash/roll like move to avoid fire. But the boss fights are good fun, if you don’t repeat the same one over and over and over again.Ī nice challenge, but nothing I couldn't beat
But does this fit the bullet hell status quo of bullets? Not by a long shot, even with a bullet to play space comparison. Somehow landing in between, there are rooms which border too cramped, and yet, manages to stick the landing thereabouts with the restrictive playspace. With the very zoomed and small rooms that are part of the overall dungeon/level, it straddles a fine line of being claustrophobic and being fish in a barrel. Monolith goes for the second route in somewhat tight rooms. Having disliked Binding of Isaac for its gameplay pace, Monolith manages to convince that not all randomly-generated content is terrible.īullet hells are a one-and-done basic principle of either repeating patterns and learning them, or understanding how each enemy operates. Monolith is a top down bullet hell with your standard roguelite game featuring randomly generated dungeons and levels with hand-crafted looking rooms. Reviews // 25th Jul 2017 - 5 years ago // By Owen Chan Monolith Review
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