Hudson owns the BR franchise, and developed it with Eighting. Hudson officially retired the series/franchise around 2003, then like 4 months after the buggy pos software beta that was Bloody Roar 4 was released here (the japanese got the finished version a couple months after us), killed the japanese website (bloody-roar.co.jp) and the american website (bloodyroar.com).
Then how come it got passed around to publishers like Sony, Virgin and Activation? Hudson was a publisher in the US at the time
An owner can contract ANYONE to publish a game. It doesn’t give them ANY ownership of it, though. Tecmo can hire Activision to publish DOA6…so what? Doesn’t mean DOA now belongs to Activision, or that they have any say in the fate of the series. Just because you pour a driveway for a house doesn’t mean you have any claim to the property. I thought everyone here knew this. checks your join date Hmmm…I guess there are some things you can’t be expected to know yet.
I’m trying make sense out of Hudson farming out the series to other publishers when they are one themselves. It isn’t common for publishers to get someone else to publish their shit unless they have no foothold in that regional market. Being passed around lead to believe it’s a developer owned franchise than a publisher one
They just did it their way. No rhyme or reason. The late 90’s-early 2000’s was a crazy time.
Bloody roar was so fun when I was a kid, So I bought Bloody Roar 2 on PSN, relived some good memories, but I don’t think BR is the series you would have a big following for, I never played 3 and don’t know how it is, but in 2. I can punish someone for 80% of their health just by pressing Square.
I wish they brought this series back into something greater!<br><br>Tekken and Soulcalibur were kinda starting to bore me.<br>
I love this game…just bringing back childhood memories
I find it a bit unique how every character can shift into different beasts
Except for 4, I love the Bloody Roar series. Very good fighters indeed. Recently I finally got my hands on Bloody Roar Extreme for the Gamecube. So satisfactory, especially finally checking out Fang.