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, setting in a dystopian world in the year 2116.

Plot
Tylon Cybertech Corporation, is an almighty biotechnological  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.

Survivor Zoanthropes create the Zoanthrope Liberation Front (Z.L.F.), to fight againts Tylon Forces.

More factions join forces with the Z.L.F.

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 Tylon Empire, 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.

7. Online Sandbox Mode

Players can costume the character if they chose, the open world city has to offer a new experience for a fighting game, can make friends, teams, defeat cpu enemies or rival player teams.

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

The players can choose normal and tag mode.

The gameplay is in an open area like the "Dead or Alive" series, the arenas are completely destructible, players can use elements of the field to defend and attack your opponent if is necesary.

The Fighting mode and Sandbox mode runs with the fox engine made by kojima productions, using havok psyshics for make the fighting enviroment more realistic.

Work in progress...

Characters
This new game has a total of 30 characters to choose from, no DLCs, the first video game characters are back in a new reinterpretation, as the default characters that were added over the years of the franchise.



Yūgo Ōgami (Yugo the Wolf)
 * Male
 * Age: 17
 * Zoanthrope(First and Second Form): Wolf/Fenrir
 * Nationality: Japanese
 * Occupation: Student
 * Fighting Style: Kickboxing and Ōgami military seftdefense.
 * 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 zoanthrope, born form Zoanthrope father and human mother. he's always in trouble and loves fighting with stronger rivals, one day his father reveals to him his 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's childhood/close friend, her fater Akira Tsukagami, was a former Tylon scientist and Yugo's family friend, her mother was a first generation Zoanthrope, Alice inherited her Zoanthropy, makes her a second generation Zoanthrope, Alice and Yugo are schoolmates and Alice feels a great affection for Yugo, 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, red eyes and white hair.



Long Shin (Long the Tiger) Long Shin is a first generation Zoanthrope, he has very good skills in martial arts, before to become in Zoanthrope, he has a very tragical past life, Tylon try to destroy Long's village, his mother and little sister dies in the attack, but Long survives and need to found revenge, a underworld institute make it a Tiger Zoanthrope, the only way to revenge against the Tylon Company, in the XGC virus incident Long become in the White Byakko, a big white tiger, master of the winds, a sacred beast Zoanthrope.
 * Male
 * Age: 23
 * Zoanthrope(First and Second Form): Tiger/White Byakko
 * Nationality: Chinese
 * Occupation: Assasin
 * Fighting Style: Kempo Kung Fu
 * Affiliation: Z.L.F.



Alan Gado (Gado the Lion) Alan Gado was a first generation Zoanthrope and Tylon mercenary, his life are guns and destruction, is the best friend of Yuji Ogami, who are teammates in the Tylon invasions over entire nations. after attacking a country, begins to think he make evil acts for money, between the civilian survivors Gado founds a girl, which called Jane, and becomes his adopted father, during the XGC virus attack, Gado takes a new form Zoanthrope called the Manticore.
 * Male
 * Age: 43
 * Zoanthrope(First and Second Form): Lion/Manticore
 * Nationality: French
 * Occupation: Former Tylon Mercenary
 * Fighting Style: Militar Selfdefense
 * Affiliation: Z.L.F.



Ryūzō Katō (Bakuryū the Iron Mole) Ryūzō Katō is a first generation Zoanthrope and Tylon number one Assasin, He become form a very wealthy japanese family founders of the Kato style of Ninjutsu, the most advanced and hard form of this martial art, Bakuryū in the day of the Tylon attack to the world with the Zoanthrope army, he asked to be become in a Zoanthrope, but he was too old for the process, Anyway Tylon design for him an armor that gives him the ability to turning in a Zoanthrope, the iron mole.
 * Male
 * Age: 55
 * Zoanthrope(First and Second Form): Power Armor/Iron Mole
 * Nationality: Japanese
 * Occupation: Tylon Assasin
 * Fighting Style: Ninjutsu
 * Affiliation: Tylon Cybertech Corporation

Hans Taubemann (Hans the Fox) Hans Taudemann is a first generation Zoanthrope and Tylon Assasin, Hans is an effeminate and bloodthirsty killer that doesn't care about anyone or anything. He is a very vain young man with obvious cross-dressing tendancies. He is also obssessed with beauty and declares all else ugly. Hans was a very tragic and sad past life, that is the reason, His emotional scars and psychotic tendency did an excellent candidate for Tylon forces.
 * Male
 * Age: 22
 * Zoanthrope(First and Second Form): Fox/Kitsune
 * Nationality: British
 * Occupation: Tylon Assasin
 * Fighting Style: Kickboxing with Taekwondo
 * Affiliation: Tylon Cybertech Corporation

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Stages
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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, if the game becomes succesfull maybe will be port for PC in Steam, Origin, and Uplay web stores.