Bloodstorm was a fighting game that was set out in the early 90s as another game that was destined to outdo Mortal Kombat. Problem is, this game sucked ass big time and hardly did anything to its competitors... Well except one. If anyone could remember back during when Mortal Kombat 3 came out, we can clearly see that there's no Johnny Cage and no Raiden. Why is this? Well, apparently the actor who played as Johnny Cage in the previous games decides that he's going to help promote a rival company's game while still being Cage. Midway (at the time) found out about this and fired him on the spot. Bye-bye Daniel. His brother Carlos, was also having difficulties with the company, and I believe he got fired too (or he quit on his own) but of course, later on, Carlos came back, Daniel did not.
I stated before, this game hardly had any kind of competition against it's rivals. It's not that great of a game whatsoever. It's so glitchy, it tried to make it as gory, or a bit gorier than Mortal Kombat, but it failed in so many directions. The problem, is that they intended on making this game really bloody that it just lost all aspects of being a gory game. They tried making it to where, get enough hits, your opponent loses their legs and becomes a moving torso with intestines flooding out of them. Oh, but they can still fight, and they can still win the game if allowed to. You'll get this, "Legless victory" announced. Okay?
A lot of the characters couldn't be more unoriginal if they tried. A lot of the characters have moves that we've all seen before. They try over exposing the female's boobs although they did a poor job at it. And they have these huge shield-like things on their hands that just look so bogus, it takes away a lot from the character. Half the time, they get in the way of a lot of things, it just doesn't make sense on why they have them.
I will give them credit on one thing though. In order to actually beat the game, you must find and eliminate these secret characters that works with the final boss of the game. To do so, you have to do all these random things on certain stages to get a hold of them. Example, in order to find "Golem" you're on a stage that as a pitfall on both sides of the platform. At a particular time, you are to actually fall down in the pit and successfully land on this tiny platform that automatically makes you head off to where Golem is at. So, I'll give some props for creative secret fights but... it's not like other games have done something like that before.
Throughout the fight, each fighter has the ability to rip off the limbs and such to their opponent. As mentioned previously, this is where the "legless victory" thing comes into play. But what's stupid is that this occurs on both rounds. So if you successfully blasted a guy's head off in the first round, they're perfectly fine the next round. What? Come on. I don't like when games do that. But, it's all right, it's not like this game went anywhere anyways.
It's a shame that someone lost their job promoting this game. This game was supposed to rival Mortal Kombat, but it didn't. The company that also created this game, Strata, went out of business, now that's sad. The game was also hinting in various secrets that there was supposed to have a sequel. Well, now we know the fate of that sequel... It's never going to happen.
What could have been probably a good competition to a powerful game failed in so many aspects, no wonder why not too many people have actually heard this game. I've seen way too many glitches with the game as well, as there's a video out there that shows off a lot of it. As I've seen countless of stuff with this game, I couldn't possibly see how it could be deemed a good fighting game to actually be a rival to others. It didn't have a strong fan base, the story wasn't even remotely interesting to know, and overall, it just pretended to be a great game when in the end we all know it wouldn't. I'd say if you want to, there's videos on Youtube showing a lot of the gameplay, such as fatalities and some random person playing the entire game, exposing the secrets while having crappy music play over the entire thing (I hate that). You can judge for yourself if you want. It's called Bloodstorm.
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