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• gamedeal user

  Jul 15, 2014

  Some people enjoyed Duke Nukem 3D, some people were crazy about Doom, some other spent their time in Quake. I played Blood and stabbed my enemies with a Pitchfork. I ate their bleeding hearts to replenish health. I visited Dark Carnival and enjoyed every bloody attraction. I kicked Zombie's decapitated heads,'cause it's fun. And I rised from the grave. 10/10 would dig myself out again.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 19, 2017

  Blood is without a doubt a timeless classic, and one of the best and most challenging FPS games of all time, but sadly hasn't had the support it deserves, with this Steam version being a good example of this, just being a stock standard DosBox version. You take on the role of Caleb, a great shot, fast runner and strong swimmer. He's also the now ex leader of an evil cult known as the Cabal. After the dark god (who you worshiped) Tchernabog kills all of your friends, and you, you awaken from your grave seeking revenge. Revenge that can only be paid in blood! Caleb is the definition of an anti hero. He's just a bad guy only out for revenge, not to save anyone. If you've ever Shadowed some Warriors, Duked some Nukems or Doomed some twos you'll know what to expect. This is a product of it's time, so expect to get lost in vast sprawling levels, collecting keys, finding secrets and getting gunned down by surprise monster closets. The locations you'll visit are some of the most varied you'll find in an FPS game, with detailed textures, sprites and interactive items, many being unique to each level. The locations feel believable in a strange way. You've never been to any place like them, but you just know places like it exist. Most of the levels are heavily inspired by of era horror movies, and the tone often aligned with Evil Dead. You'll visit abandoned towns, train stations, carnivals, cathedrals, hotels, forests, it really would take too long to list them all. Each level feels more or less connected, with you starting off where the previous level left off, adding to the continuous feel of your journey. This game is hard, and I mean get out hard. If you're a seasoned FPS player, Blood will be either a wonderfull little challenge or a wake up call. Quicksaving is your best friend here, the levels are long, and if you don't know what you're doing you'll die, a lot. Is the challenge legitimate? Yes. If you know how to manage your resources and learn to predict how the enemies behave, you can get through this game start to finish on Lightly Broiled, which I STRONGLY suggest for a first playthrough. Once that's down, you have Well Done, and boy am I thankfull for that setting. It's like the middle ground between normal and get out hard, like right in the middle of Doom's Ultra Violence and Nightmare. If it weren't for Well Done, the game would be much less fun casually for multiple playthroughs. Blood packs some of the best weapons I've ever had the pleasure of using in an FPS game, and that's saying something. From tommy guns, to vodoo dolls all the way up to a napalm launcher, this game has weapons you won't forget. Each weapon serves a purpose, and that's killing whatever abomination in your way. The enemy roster in this game gives Doom 2 a run for its money. The sprite work is absolutely phenomenal, and breaths life into each enemy you face, not to mention the fantastic voice work by Stephan Weyte, who gives Caleb a real presence with his likeable attitude and off colour humor. The music is also a treat, with a full 13 track midi soundtrack, and full length CD soundtrack. Each song fits each level accordingly, with chants, wispers and catchy midi tunes. TLDR, the game is fast, fun, challenging, great to look at and listen to, and oozing with creativity. You should buy it, it's FIVE DOLLARS which is highway robbery, even when it's not on a sale. Just a little bit of set up will be needed to get the game running properly, and if you can't get that working, Blood GDX is always a ease and good alternative to playing in DosBox. Now go spill some!
• gamedeal user

  Nov 26, 2016

  Nominated for Most In Need Of A Redux!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 26, 2014

  [b]Blood[/b] is a masterpiece of a game. But this is just a lazy [b]DOSBOX[/b] emulation. Not to even mention the fact that [b]Atari[/b] has the source code and they are just to lazy to release it and allow the community to make proper ports. The game's soundtrack is also bugged and will not even play certain tracks. Controls are annoying to set up. The game also runs sluggish on modern sytems. To put the icing on the cake, to access the expansion pack content (Cryptic Passage), you must create a shortcut for it in the file folder! I recommend this game like all hell, but not the Steam version. If only they could've took the [url=http://steamcommunity.com/id/cilliswillis/recommended/225140/]Duke Nukem 3D[/url] or [b]Shadow Warrior[/b] route, those are proper ports. The GoG version is digitally packed better (shortcuts), but suffers some of the same issues. [h1]5/5 - OG game.[/h1] 1/5 - Lazy DOS Emulation. [b]Note:[/b] Check out this launcher that will allow you to play Cryptic Passage and more! (Scroll down for English.) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=287113746
• gamedeal user

  Nov 30, 2015

  Blood is one hell of a great classic FPS game! Sadly, I did not play this until later on in my life, but still, this game rocks! I would have loved this game when I was a kid. This game mixes horror films and FPS greatness into one blended mixture of awesomeness. Please, do not judge this game on graphics, this is one hell of a fun game to play. The weapons are very creative! Instead of the traditional pistol you get with countless other shooters, it is replaced with a flare gun which you can satifyingly burn enemies with. Watching your foes run around screaming as their flesh melts off, priceless. That is only one of the kick ass weapons this game offers in it's large arsenal. This game also has alternative fire modes for each gun too making awesome weapons that much more brutal and satisfying. The MIDI soundtrack has some of the greatest tracks I have heard in a game. There is a non-MIDI CD soundtrack, I believe it is enabled by default, but I prefer the MIDI tracks. I find the CD soundtrack too slow and eventful to listen to while you are gunning down zombies and cultists. You can disable the CD tracks by removing the MP3 files (or WAV files, I can't remember) from the game's root directory. The level design is awesome. My favorite level is the haunted hotel level in Episode 2. It takes inspiration from The Shining as you can find Jack Nicholson's frozen body in a hedge maze. Also, you can find the infamous tub where that disgusting old hag was in. Not sure if that was a pro or con, but it is in the game. Not only does this level have references, but there are other references to other horror films found in other levels like Nightmare on Elm's Street, Friday the 13th, and the list goes on. Don't pass this game up, play it! NOW!
• gamedeal user

  Jul 15, 2014

  I played and completed this game in the late 90s. This is the best of the 90's build engine games. Yes, even better than Duke Nukem 3D. Excellent atmosphere, spooky music, cool weapons, nice enemies, and good gameplay. A must buy if you're interested in old school shooters. [i]For more reviews, gaming news, and giveaways check out my curator page...[/i] http://steamcommunity.com/groups/saintsatan
• gamedeal user

  Sep 13, 2017

  A criminally underrated FPS which rubbed soulders with its Build engine peers, Duke Nukem and Lo Wang. It's the Evil Dead and Hammer horror to Duke Nukem's Terminator and Predator and Lo Wang's Enter the Dragon
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2014

  Shoot axe weilding maniacs with a flare gun then play soccer with their heads. Playing this at 13 turned me into a psychopath for life. 666/10
• gamedeal user

  Jul 31, 2014

  Blood is a classic, nothing else needs to be said about that. You loved it for good reason back in 1998. The religious horror setting really helped it to stand out among Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior, two other games developed in the same engine. It was obvious that with the porting of Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior that retro FPS fans would be excited for a port of Blood. However, this is not a good port, it is just a lazy dosbox emulation. The game doesn't even let you play all of it's episodes that it comes with until you edit configuration files. You also have to edit and mod just to get mouse look to work, to get the game to not suffer performance issues, to restore the music to its original format and prevent t from bugging out and looping, to get the Steam overlay to work, among other things. The worst part is that nobody can get the rights from Monolith to do anything with this property ever since they were bought out and gutted from the inside by Warner Bros, so we will probably never get an enhanced port that offers the basic modern features we have adjusted to, or at least one that doesn't have problems out the gate. I have spent several hours just trying to get this game set up the way I want and it won't work out for me, I'm done trying. You shouldn't have to put in hours of work just to get a game to run the way you want it. It's like I took five dollars and burned it because I wanted to experience Blood again. Don't do what I or anyone else did, you might as well pirate the game and dump it into an emulator/engine that will actually let do what you want with ease. The pain and effort to get to play this game might technically be worth it, but there is simply not enough that you can do to make this playable. And honestly, does anybody look back at the days of using your mouse to move and the arrow keys to turn fondly?
• gamedeal user

  Dec 9, 2018

  Such a classic must play from 90s! Though, as of December 2018, both Steam and GOG releases are just DOSBox ports which clearly didn't age well. Therefore, I strongly recommend playing it via unofficial engine pre-implementation [b]BloodGDX[/b] which supports modern OSs (Windows 7/8.1/10, Linux, macOS), modern resolutions, native mouse look, mods, 64 bit architecture and many more features. https://m210.duke4.net/ [b]Linux users:[/b] If you downloaded Blood via Steam Play/Proton, make sure game path in BloodGDX is selected correctly as [code].../steamapps/common/One Unit Whole Blood[/code] NOT [code].../steamapps/common/Proton[/code]