Bloodshot

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Bloodshot
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: Domark
Developer: Domark
Distributor: Acclaim Entertainment (EU), Sega-Ozisoft (AU) Ecofilmes (PT)
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Shooting
Number of players: 1-2
Official in-game languages: English Deutsch Français Español
Release Date RRP Code US ▼ (Sega Channel) 1994-11 SUBsub EU 1995-01 T-88126-50 DE 199x T-88126-18 PT 199x UK 1995-01 £39.9939.99 T-88126-50 AU 1994-11 $109.95109.95 FBLO24SMC ZA 199x EU 1995-06 T-88045-50 DE 1995 T-88045-18 UK 1995-06 £39.9939.99 T-88045-50 AU 199x FBLO24SMR

Bloodshot, known as Battle Frenzy in Germany, is a Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD game developed by Domark. It is notable for being a 3D first person shooter - one of the few available for the Sega Mega Drive and the only game of this genre for the Sega Mega-CD.

Gameplay

The game is a traditional first-person shooter. Gameplay mainly consists of the player moving through corridors, shooting enemies and collecting items such as keys and weapons. At the end of each stage, the boss in form of an engine core has to be defeated. This always triggers a self destruct sequence and the player has to hurry back to the starting point in order to escape alive.

The game takes up most of the screen, with much smaller borders than similar games such as Zero Tolerance, a very impressive technical achievement. A two player split-screen mode is also available. However, the game also suffers from slowdown and some of the texture data of the Mega Drive version looks corrupted but were fixed with the Mega-CD version.

Available Weapons

• Tribolt
• Rapid
• Piercer (goes through walls)
• Ricochet (bounces off walls)
• Spray

Multiplayer

The game supports two players playing together with vertical split-screen. Game can be played either in competitive or cooperative mode.

For competitive mode player just has to select "VS Mode" in main menu and choose the arena. Each player start on opposite sides of arena-maze and have three lives.

For cooperative play player has to start normal game and then press  START  on controller of another player. The game will enter split-screen mode and the second player will spawn in. This action requires one continue point which will be taken away. There is no friendly fire in this mode.

History

Bloodshot was only released in Mega Drive cartridge form throughout Europe and Australia. In Germany, the game was retitled Battle Frenzy because the name was considered "too violent", though the game does not contain any blood ("Bloodshot" is a code name for the fictional "Battle Frenzy" chip implanted in the player"). In North America the game was exclusive to the Sega Channel in where it was called by its German name to distance itself from the comic book series of the same name.

The Sega Mega-CD version was also exclusive to Europe until 2003, when a North American version under the Battle Frenzy name was released. This version was developed and published by Good Deal Games without the consent of Domark or Acclaim Entertainment. On the Mega-CD, sound effects are sampled at a lower bitrate, the number of enemies reduced and some levels are altered so that the game could fit in RAM - this decision was made to circumvent having to stream in data from the disc during gameplay, which in slower than accessing data from a cartridge and was already being used for music.

The Mega Drive and Mega-CD have different soundtracks, both composed by Mike Ash. The Mega Drive one is ambient-based while the Mega-CD uses trance music.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Bloodshot	Bloodshot
German	Battle Frenzy	Battle Frenzy

Production credits

Mega Drive version

• Written by: Jim Blackler
• Artwork: Joe Groombridge
• Sound: Mike Ash
• Additional Animation: Mike Adams, Jo Myers, Jason Cunningham
• Stills Art: Mark Richards, Junior Walker
• Story: Ian Livingstone
• Support: Warren Mills, Matt Blackler, Paul Margrave
• Battle Frenzy copyright 1994 Domark Software. All rights reserved.

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Bloodshot/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Consoles + (FR) #42: "Avril 1995" (1995-0x-xx)

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 70 Consoles + (FR) 82 Cool Gamer (RU) 90 Computer & Video Games (UK) 84 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU) 70 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 3 (RU) 70 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 73 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 80 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 56 LeveL (CZ) 75 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 42 Mega (UK) PAL 85 Mega Force (FR) PAL 85 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 39 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 25 Player One (FR) 80 Play Time (DE) PAL 39 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 80 Sega Power (UK) PAL 88 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 78 Última Generación (ES) 68 Video Games (DE) PAL 50

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Based on 22 reviews

Bloodshot

Mega Drive, EU
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Cart Manual PCB

Mega Drive, DE
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Cart Manual

Mega Drive, PT
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Mega Drive, AU
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Cart

Mega Drive, ZA
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Mega-CD version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 64 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 73 GamesMaster (UK) 80 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 33 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 42 Mega Force (FR) PAL 80 Player One (FR) 75 Sega Magazin (DE) PAL 74 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 81 Sega News (CZ) 69 Super Juegos (ES) 75

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Based on 11 reviews

Bloodshot

Mega-CD, EU
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Disc Manual

Mega-CD, DE
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Spinecard Disc

Mega-CD, AU

Technical information

Main article: Bloodshot/Technical information.