Bloody Roar: The Dark Reign

Bloody Roar 5: The Beast Within Its the reboot of the Bloody Roar franchise, a complete new history, a scifi/biopunk theme fighting game.

Plot
Tylon Cybertech Corporation, is an almighty biotech and weaponery conglomerate, which has power over entire nations even in religions, with a illuminati power-style.

Tylon brokes all moral and religious rules of the world, to develop more sophisticated devices for cloning and genetic manipulation.

Its the year 2099, Tylon wanted to improve the human species giving superhuman characteristics to they guinea pigs, taken from animals species on the planet, which are compatible with the human genetic load.

The result are the birth of the Zoanthropes a new race of supersoldiers with shapeshifting abilities, human and another species fused in one body.

Tylon used the Zoanthropes against nations who opposed they almighty conglomerate, with beneficial results for Tylon but disastrous and horrible results against the nations affected by the invasion of the Zoanthrope Army.

Its the Year 2116, the game story begins, Yūji Ōgami a loyal and powerfull mercenary, with his lifelong friend Alan Gado,and Mitsuko Nonomura, wife of Hideki Nonomura a genetic researcher, they oppose the tyranny of the president of the corporation named Law Hashiba, imposed to whole world.

Some Zoanthropes rebelled against their creators, and the great apocalyptic war begins, with the creation of the XGC Virus, to kill any Zoanthrope to betray the company, but the XGC virus not only killed some Zoanthropes, but survivors developed a second mutation in they bodies resulting in a second Zoanthrope form, more powerfull that the original one.

The Game begins in this war, for freedom and peace...

Game Modes
Bloody Roar 5 will introduce a new game mode in addition to the well known classic modes.

1. Arcade Mode

Arcade Mode is much like in previous installments. The game includes a total of 30 characters fully unlocked, without any DLCs, as things should be. The arcade mode is developed in eight stages and a final fight against Law Hashiba the most powerful man in the world owner of the Tylon corporation. Each character has 2 beast forms, hyper beast mode active that feature provided completed the sandbox mode with each character.

2. Story/Sandbox Mode

The Story/Sandbox mode, is a new feature, much like GTA, in an open world, which is the capital of the empire of Tylon, you can choose all the characters, each will have different objectives, they may talk to NPC characters which provide you missions to complete history of the character if you choose, each character has a story to tell, tragic stories, revenge, love, etc.. By completing the Sandbox mode, the second Zoanthrope form will be unlocked, plus art, music and retro skins for all the characters adapted to the HD format of PS4 and Xbox One.

3. Vs. Mode

Players can choose between 1p vs Com., Com. vs 2p, 1p vs 2p, 1p+2p vs 3p+4p (tag mode) and com. vs com.

4. Online Mode

Players can venture online and fight against opponents. There is also a ranking system and a spectacle options.

5. Practice

Players can practice both Story Mode game play as well as Arcade and Vs. mode game play.

6. Extra Mode

Like Bloody Roar Extreme, each character after complete the arcade mode, unlocks new modes for make more fun the game.

Game Play
This reboot of the Bloody Roar franchise plays much like the old installments.

Work in progress...

Characters
This new game was in total 30 characters, classic characters for the first one feturns in a new reinterpretation add the default characters in the series and new unique characters.

Yūgo Ōgami (Yugo the Wolf)
 * Male
 * Age: 17
 * Zoanthrope(First and Second Form): Wolf/Fenrir
 * Nationality: Japanese
 * Occupation: Student
 * Fighting Style: Kickboxing
 * Affiliation: Z.L.F.

Yūgo Ōgami, Young student form japan is the firstborn son of yuji Ogami, very young he was trained for war, is a second generation zoanthope, born form Zoanthrope father and human mother. he's always in trouble and loves fighting, one day his father reveals to him the great secret, he is a Zoanthrope and Yugo reveals his Zoanthrope form to his father, during the Tylon backlash against Zoanthrope traitors, Yugo and Yuji contract the XGC virus, but both survived, besides Yugo can be transformed in a werewolf and his second form is Fenrir a mighty giant winged wolf with demonic appearance.

Alice Tsukagami (Alice the Rabbit)
 * Female
 * Age: 16
 * Zoanthrope(First and Second Form): Rabbit/Valkyrie
 * Nationality: Japanese/German
 * Occupation: Student
 * Fighting Style: Gymnastics
 * Affiliation: Z.L.F.

Alice Tsukagami, Is Yugo childhood/close friend, her fater Akira Tsukagami, was a former Tylon scientist and Yugo family friend, her mother was a first generation Zoanthrope, Alice inherited her Zoanthropy, Alice and Yugo are schoolmates, in the begin of the war versus Tylon, she contract the XGC giving her a new Zoanthrope form, the Valkyrie, an angelic creature, with 6 wings and white hair.

Work in progress...

Stages
Work in progress

Reception and Reactions
Gamespot - 9.7 = A very complex Fighting game adapted to the new generation of gamers, the Sandbox mode is very solid compared with non fighting games, like grand theft auto and skyrim.

Metacritic = 9.5 = A good return for a beloved cult franchise, with over of one decade out of the world of gaming.

Trivia
8ing/Raizing made the fighting system and characters models and stages.

Kojima Productions made the sandbox mode, inspired in the fox engine used in metal gear solid 5.

Konami Digital Entertaiment published the game on PS4 and Xbox One consoles, maybe will be made a port for wii u or this sucessor.