Fan favorites like Yugo, Long, and Gado are among the returning characters but they all have different roles in this game. Mitsuko and Greg for example, while absent have had their moves integrated into Stun’s move list, and Fox’s move set went to Jenny. Nearly every character from the first game returns in some form or another even if at times their move lists go into a new character. Uriko has mellowed out since being the first games antagonist. Back in its heyday Bloody Roar had a cult following and Bloody Roar 2 builds upon its predecessor in every way a sequel should. Yet Bloody Roar still found an audience thanks to its fast-paced combat, transformation gimmick, and for being one of the few fighting games whose story didn’t revolve around a fighting tournament. It received little in the way of marketing and was released at a time where Tekken, Dead or Alive, and Soul Blade (Soul Edge in Japan) had gobbled up a large portion of the fighting game market.
But against an army of zoanthropes, can they really make a difference?Ĭalled Beastorizer in Japan, the first Bloody Roar, while not a record-breaking success, was a sleeper hit. Once again, our heroes from the first Bloody Roar must rise up and stop the ZLF once and for all. In reality however, what they really want is zoanthrope superiority and it doesn’t take long before the ZLF starts committing acts of violence against not only humans but zoanthropes who advocate peace or neutrality. At this time the Zoanthrope Liberation Front (ZLF) appears on the scene and promises to fight for zoanthrope equality. Violence breaks out between humans and zoanthropes, and world governments struggle to maintain order. However, in doing so the zoanthropes have revealed their existence to the world at large and the globe is thrown into panic. Tylon begins kidnapping these zoanthropes and uses them in experiments to create the next generation of bio-weapons, but a small group of zoanthropes manages to destroy the corporation and attain their freedom. A shadowy corporation known as Tylon learns of these people and classify them as zoanthropes. In the near future, a small number of humans have reached the next level of evolution due to a mutation in their genetic makeup which allows them to transform into werebeasts. Gado The Lion and yes, he’s every bit as BADASS as he looks.Ĭreated by Japanese developer Eighting/Raizing and published by Hudson Soft, Bloody Roar 2 is a fighting game released for the Playstation in 1999.