Friday, June 24, 2011

Game Review: Blood: Special Edition (1997)

Genre: Horror
Year: 1997
Rated: M
Platform: PC
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My Opinion: thumb_up
Believe it or not I found this nifty gem in a dollar store! Still in its cellophane and everything! I can only imagine where its been hiding the past 14 years (probably in a forgotten corner of a forgotten warehouse).

Created in the DOS era, Blood was considered so violant and bloody that it had to have a parental lock on it. Even with the parental lock on, this game is a treat for first and third person shooters.

Read the synopsis here. Its like a western meets cult and zombies.

Its one of the most advanced DOS games I've ever played. The entire environment is interactive, you can shoot, blow up, and destroy almost anything and everything. Plus you can create your own custom levels. The best bonus is that it comes with a second disk with desktop themes, game demos, and even a music video by the band Type O Negative. Very nice!

But once you download the patches and apply them, the gore is taken to a whole other level! I don't even see some of this stuff in modern games, let alone DOS. In the parental lock mode, when you shoot zombies, they just yell and fall over. But in the unlocked mode, their heads fly off in a fountain of pixel-blood, and you get to kick their heads around like a soccar ball :D.

Unfortunatly, due to it being a DOS game, its difficult to get it to run properly on a PC newer than Win98. I highly recomend this game, especially if you have an older pc or have the means to run DOS-based games.

But honestly, I think this game should be remade for new systems, because this is one of those types of games that would be appreciated by this generation of gamers.

What do you think of Blood? Have you ever played it? Do you think it should be remade? Comment below!



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