Fourth Bloody Roar with its 3D versus combat and beast transformations. Expanded roster and tidy animations, though the system isn't really new. A pleasant final PS2 entry for fans.
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Fighting2 players12+
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Fourth entry in the fighting series where each warrior morphs into a beast. Published by Konami, released in 2003 in Europe, North America, Japan and Korea. Fourteen characters, zoanthrope transformations, aerial attacks and 3D arena combat. International edition.
The North American edition of Bloody Roar 4 closes the zoanthrope franchise on the NTSC market, where the series had built its most active following since the PSone days. The US Konami print run stayed limited and sealed copies command steep premiums, since few new units survived a title that was quickly cleared from shelves. Scarcity of fresh stock, more than the game itself, drives the gap with the European release and feeds series completists.