Bloody Roar

Bloody Roar, known in Europe and Japan as Bloody Roar: Hyper Beast Duel, is a fighting video game originally developed by Raizing (now Eighting) as an arcade game. It was later adapted for the PlayStation by Hudson Soft and published for the PlayStation by Sony Computer Entertainment. The arcade version was released on July 7, 1997 and was titled Beastorizer in North America. The PlayStation version was released in Japan on November 6, 1997, in North America (under the title Bloody Roar) on October 31, 1997, and in Europe in March 1998. Bloody Roar is the first game in the Bloody Roar video game series and was followed by four sequels on different platforms. The game's story revolves around a group of warriors known as "zoanthropes", who have the power to transform into half-human, half-animal "beasts", and the Tylon Corporation, an underground organization that tries to use zoanthropes as mind-controlled weapons. The game received generally positive reviews from critics for its originality and graphics, while the tone generated mixed opinions. The game's success led to it being re-released for The Best Range on October 14, 1999. In North America, the game was re-released via the PlayStation Network on August 20, 2009.