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Blood is a review

Although the development of the genre shooters began with the release of Wolfenstein 3D But still 1997 became for the computer games industry in general, and for the genre shooters in particular truly iconic. A year ago, a masterpiece and instantly grabbed in Duke Nukem 3D quotes was released .

We’ll talk about the jokes of “Duke-all-all” another time, and today we will recall another colorful character from the “Great Three”. On May 31, 2019, old man Kalebu was twenty -two years old. Despite the fact that today he is practically forgotten, at one time the Blood action movie was a real hit.

I am alive! Again!
The reckless and cruel Caleb led the life of complete fights, duels and robbery – a standard, in general, set for a daredevil from the Wild West. But one day, fate brought him to a charming Ophelia, which abruptly changed his life. And they would have lived happily ever after if Ophelia had not been an adherent of a rather gloomy religious worship of Kabal, who worshiped the deity of the Chernobog.

The ideas of the cult, which consisted, mainly made of bloody sausage and the expropriation of overwhelming labor, came to our hero to taste, and he enjoyed with pleasure in the ranks of the sectarians, gradually receiving magical abilities from the deity, and transforming into a real dark lord. The Chernobogs such a zealous follower fell out, and the deity, having appointed Caleb to the “chosen”, ordered our hero to introduce our heroes before his clerk. Of course, by sacrifice.

The sectarians performed the authorities with commendable zeal, sending Caleb and three of his friends – including Ophelia – directly to the deity in the mouth. The focus was a success, Chernobog arrived to the ground and began to create uniform lawlessness with mass killings and grogs. Meanwhile, Caleb, who for some reason did not really like to wallow in a coffin with a corpse, is digging out of the grave. Taking nearby pitchfork with him, he begins his bloody path of revenge.

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Even death can die.
It may seem that with the plots the „three great shooters“ is completely trouble. This statement is only partial. The Blood game is a concentrated cocktail of black-good humor, cruelty, blood and atmosphere of militants in the translation of Volodarsky. The game simply accommodated all the then popular stamps – revenge, love, resurrection from the dead, shootings and jokes in the spirit of a “strong nut”.

The game begins with the main character crawls out of his own grave, armed with a pitchfork and a lighter.

Judge for yourself – what other game begins with the main character crawls out of his own grave, armed with a fork and a lighter? In what other game do we immediately give a bunch of dynamite and offer it to be thrown into a crowd of abysses, screaming something unintelligible-with an appropriate bloody-meat result? Where else could we extinguish enemies from a signal rocket launcher: the enemy at first got into the bloody, then suddenly lit up and ran around the district for another ten seconds, screaming heartily and desperately swearing? The Blood game from the very beginning set a very high degree of madness, going on on the screen, and did not slow it until the final fight.

In fact, Blood is the most ordinary shooter „on the Duke Nukem engine“. Ordinary, but extraordinary. The game suggested that we go through the most unexpected places in which the end of the world happened. How do you like a showdown with crowds of fanatics and hordes of demons in the middle of the amusement park? How do you like the prospect of capturing and stripping a train, followed by redirecting it simply to the center of a busy city? And contractions with corgules among the pastoral summer camp, on the territory of which the corpses of the Boyskauts are scattered everywhere? The Blood game was the first to abandon the traditional “secret military bases”, “nesting of strangers” and “space stations” in favor of very specific ordinary places.

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.
Is it not gasoline smell?
Arsenal was also to match the stylistics. This was not before Blood or after it. Thompson’s paired machines easily and cheerfully turned all living things into minced meat within sight. The signal rocket launcher gave us many pleasant minutes, killing most enemies from the first hit. The forecast very briskly increased the content of lead in the organisms of all the nearest opponents to a critical mark. Mines, dynamite, napalmoth, spray can – Caleb combined it with a lighter, exactly like the heroes of the militants. Voodoo doll, poking pins into which enemies made a bo. In a word, it was easy, pleasant and insanely fun with the help of the arsenal Blood.

But there was a lot of evil spirits. Moreover, unlike later shooters, Blood did not have traditional “beating boys” – the weakest enemies killed by one sneeze. Even the most ordinary cultist could, based on the situation (recall, on 1997 Street) choose a weapon – from a shotgun to a machine gun, from explosives to flamethrower. Demonic opponents at first killed Caleb from one blow – while you will get up and develop tactics against them. What automatic health restoration? What are you talking about? And there were also small copies of Caleb, jumping out of any broken mirror and running on the floor on the fingers of the hand of the human hand, which could also strangle our hero.

In addition, Blood was also magnificent to its network mode. In addition to battles with other players, it was possible to go through the story campaign in conjunction here – this regime supported up to eight players. With a corresponding increase in the number of enemies, ammunition and weapons. Until now, missions are remembered, where five or six Calebs stood back to the back, fighting off the enemies rolling in waves. This is where the feeling of elbow was developed!

Carriage Tommy-Gan-because two are better than one.
Finally, a few words about the technical side of the game. If in 1997 you had a sound card (still luxury at that time), you could enjoy a very good sound for the authorship of the composer Makuine. Level design deserves everyone and all praise – the developers did not allow Blood to have at least one uninteresting corridor. Blood spots, corpses, traps, destroyed houses and crucified civilians – literally every centimeter here reminds that bloody bacchanalia is happening in the world. Finally, Kaleb himself constantly commented on what was happening, releasing caustic comments on enemies, weapons, locations and even the player’s actions. The case when the game was the real „soul“.

The first part of Blood was actually deprived of flaws and sold perfectly. After a short time, a couple of additions with new levels and weapons came to her for a short time. Finally, in 1998, the second part was released, Blood 2: The Chosen. The sequel demonstrated to us a buried schedule, stupid AI enemies, who simply pinched the barrel, hastened charm, got rid of the lion’s share of black humor. Finally, these two components completely disappeared from the game about blood and cruelty. And they forgot about the great game. In 2008, Blood Nick Newhard moved to work in Big Fish Games, specializing in casual games, so there is practically no chance of reviving an imperishable hit. However, it is possible that like his main character, once this great game will rise from the grave and from the heart packed with modern crafts.

strong and weaknesses of the project

+Black-black humor
+Hundreds of references to mass culture
+Thousands of „Easterns“
+Whest arsenal
+Great level design

-The unbalanced opponents
-The hero’s arsenal is not transferred to the next mission
-Unevenly distributed ammunition
Assessment to the game: 4.8/5