Blood 1998 game

In addition to plenty of undead monsters, you will meet a number of memorable and funny characters including JoJo the Idiot Boy, as well as original monsters such as mimes. Blood also has excellent sound effects that more than make up for pixellated graphics: from the zombies' mumbles, to disembodied voices from the past, to your character, Caleb, quoting cool one-liners from Evil Dead and Shakespeare he beats Duke Nukem 3D quips hands-down in my opinion , sounds add a great atmosphere to the game.

As would be even more evident in Monolith's later games No One Lives Forever for instance , the level design in Blood is very clever, and is clearly what the designers put a lot of thought on. There are many thin walls you can blow open, rotating rooms, and fun and memorable "theme" levels an abandoned ship, the carnival, and a moving train are my favorites.

The gameplay is the same "find key X to open door Y to find key Z that opens door A that contains key But the fun level design, the sense of humor in everything, and the number of secrets you can discover make Blood very entertaining and eminently replayable. Equally innovative is the design of weapons and various power-ups. Most of your weapons are very unique, original, and just plain fun to use.

While you start the game with a standard-looking pitchfork, you will soon collect an impressive array of cool weapons, including a voodoo doll, a tommy gun, the aerosol can, and the life leech. Although the game suffered from a lot of bugs in the original release, they are minor bugs that did not detract from the excellent gameplay.

If you love 3D shooters, can at least tolerate campy humor, and are not offended by 'cheesy' gore and violence, Blood is one of the best games you will ever play.

If you like the game, check out its excellent but slightly less fun sequel called Blood 2 also on this site. Two thumbs up, way up! Screenshots from MobyGames.

Ass1 0 point. I will never buy this game , you can find for free Also source ports sucks balls. Dosbox is ruuni g fine on my win10 , i changed the mouse settings it runs smoothlm. Opengl crap and otber fanci functios is bs. Just scale the image and graphics looks crap. I prefer lirry old shit pixeled. CeeJay 1 point. Dovahslayer 0 point. Hi guys, As many of you know, This is built on Build engine. I know what you are about to ask, what does this have to do with anything?

NBlood64 is a source port based off of EDuke32 Another recommended but for Duke Nukem 3D players and actually supports more modern resolutions and also has a new shader engine known as Polymer. I have played it on NBlood64 for quite some time now. I hope this helps people! Civvie 11 5 points. Atari sux -3 points. Today, 3D might mean actual 3D or even virtual reality, but in this case, it was just an expression about the improved graphics and gameplay.

Most video games based on movies are poor, but Goldeneye is a famous exception to this rule. When it comes to FPS games of the s, this is the one that everyone knows, even if they haven't touched a video game for decades. The film of the same name was a smash hit as well, the first in which Pierce Brosnan took on the role after years of dithering, which definitely helped the marketing department.

The original idea for this game made it a classic side-scroller, but the success of '90s shooting games at the time inspired the team at Nintendo to develop another type of game from a first-person perspective. Multi-player modes had existed before, but Goldeneye improved the whole "deathmatch" concept and raised the bar.

Half-Life has an interesting place in gaming history. Not only was it the culmination of everything that made FPS games so great in the late s, but it was also the debut title from Valve. By this time, the "shooting gallery" concept had fallen out of favor for the same reasons that it had been so popular at first; the simple viewpoint, in-your-face gore, and lack of a plot. This game reversed all those trends and included a sophisticated storyline. The game was so influential that it inspired several mods and third-party remakes and sequels in the last two decades, including Black Mesa, which was released in The successor to the Doom series of games and another offering from id Software, Quake combined the FPS format with the best features from other popular genres, namely survival horror and medieval fantasy RPG settings.

The whole game was also beautifully rendered, beginning a trend in which fans of '90s FPS games would start demanding more sophisticated graphics and design, something that hadn't been a priority in the past.

This game tested the true depth of the third dimension in video games, and every single FPS created since has followed suit. It's easy to get confused between the Duke Nukem games and other franchise titles like Wolfenstein 3D or Doom because the basic look, premise, and gameplay are so similar.

What makes this '90s first-person shooter game stand out is the protagonist, Duke, who has his own dedicated fan following. Some of that drama stems from ongoing copyright issues with the game that have literally gone on for decades. The game was originally intended for PCs, but its popularity caused an explosion that spread it to virtually every platform in existence.

As a simple two-dimensional shooter, it leaned heavily on the less sophisticated side of the FPS genre and became extremely popular as a result. A classic '90s FPS game that uses the Gothic horror aesthetic to the hilt, including putting gargoyles and skulls on the action bar.

The player takes on the role of Caleb, a turn-of-the-century monster and undead hunter who is seeking revenge against a dark god. Blood includes a lot of occult elements when it comes to enemies, weapons, and settings that are reminiscent of games like Diablo but in a more modern time period. There's a modern version of this game currently available entitled Blood: Fresh Supply that combines the best parts of the old games and remastered them with better, more modern graphics.

First-person shooter games were so popular in the s that everyone was trying to get on the bandwagon. I say no. If all you want to do is to smack pixels around with buckshot, have at it. But if you're looking for something fresh, something that Doom didn't do years ago, something new under the sun, move on. At least the game is technically proficient. The LithTech engine is a serviceable 3D software machine. It's not as rich or immersive as the Unreal engine, but it's leaner and quicker.

It's not Quake II either, though it's hard to pinpoint exactly why, though there are little, visual, environmental touches that feel a bit off. The rooms look too square. Sure, everything else prior to those Quake III shots looks square too, but the angularity is not as well hid here as in other games. Some of the lighting looks wrong too--the shafts of luminance spilling down from the skylights look like tangible objects, a little too solid.

But in general it's slick, and while some bugs are present, including random lockups, the game is by no means a roach motel. Sure, every time you save, it automatically activates your inventory when you return to the game. Items can be hard to pick up since they're so small. Climbing ladders is peculiarly difficult, and clipping problems crop up periodically. Yet while these traits are annoying, they don't actually destroy gameplay, just make you save more often.

There's not much wrong with LithTech in and of itself, and all the bonus goodies Monolith has planned for budding mod authors and level makers is genuinely classy. But as Id Software likes to demonstrate, an engine does not a game make. For a shooter, the game has to succeed in its levels, but too many of Blood 2's levels are flawed. And by flawed I mean blinking unplayable.

I mean sheer tedium. There are a couple of "Woah, cool, look at this! But the rest are your usual room-corridor affairs, replete with those tired old fallbacks, the jumping puzzle and the key hunt. Now jumping puzzles were all fine and good back when 2D side scrollers were all there was, but what are they doing here?

If you miss, you die! If you die, you have to reload! If you have to reload, it takes a good twenty seconds because of all the textures! Far, far worse is the over-reliance on making you go look for some key that opens some door, as if this were some exciting and engrossing form of gaming. I want to be clear about this: looking for crap is not fun. I have to look for enough crap in real life--a parking place, misplaced keys. Shooting crap is fun. More shooting, less looking. Heck, I probably spent half of the game wandering back and forth through deserted, shot-up corridors, searching for a key, a switch, or whatever, to let me into the next part of the level.

But you will see the mini-movies and hints during the game only if you play as Caleb. The graphics are also much better and clearer drawn than Blood. Instead of blurry, dull palette, you see vivid environments brought to life in SVGA, with plenty of detail.

When all is said and done, though, the game itself doesn't feel as fun as Blood. Perhaps it is because a lot of so-campy-it's-funny elements have been replaced with a more ominous plot and more threatening monsters. How to run this game on modern Windows PC? Contact: , done in 0.