Blood: Full Uncut Version

by GT Interactive

Product Features

• Features TYPE O NEGATIVE'S chilling video, "Love You To Death"
• Complete UNCUT Version featuring 42 Levels
• Requires DOS (Windows 95 / 98)

Product Details

• ASIN: B00069AP28
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,192 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Blood is a gory 3D 1st-person shooter which is based on Ken Silverman's 'Build' engine. You'll battle cultists, gargoyles, zombies, hellhounds, and an unholy host of other terrors in your quest to stop Tchernobog. You must not only defeat the Cabal--you must scour its dread name from human memory. If that means eradicating everyone and everything the Cabal has ever tainted, so be it. Of course, you'll first have to make your way through fortresses, castles, mines, mansions, and estates guarded and kept by Tchernobog's malevolent servants. Fortunately, it is wits that make the hero, and although you're in serious danger of losing yours, you've got enough left to improvise some pretty effective tools of destruction. Aerosol hairspray can be frightening enough on its own, but apply it to a lighter flame and you've got an instant flamethrower (kids, don't try this at home!). Likewise, a flare gun can brighten your prospects considerably against even the grimmest odds, which is to say nothing for shotguns, Tommy guns, and dynamite. Who knows, you may even find that there are some spirits on your side when you find yourself clutching a voodoo doll. This is the FULL Uncut Version of the game with 42 Levels, lots of weapons, enemies and monsters. BEWARE of the Shareware versions of this game they only contain 7 levels!

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh blood, June 29, 2006

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David Queener (Johnson City, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Blood: Full Uncut Version (CD-ROM)

Though it has aged, it hasnt coagulated yet. Despite the decay of the genre around it, this Blood remains fresh.

Blood is an intense first person shooter by Monolith in a horror/dark humor atmosphere. It is equally renowned for it's creativity and sadistic nature, as it is for difficulty. Blood is a game for those who love first person shooters, and thus are at least moderately skilled at them.

Boasting a morbid cast of monstrosities, Monolith's hemoglobin opus pits you against a dark cult, from which you play a cast down and sacrificed leader seeking your revenge. Swift axe wielding zombies, shotgun and tommygun wielding cultists, severed choking hands, transdimensional reapers, hell hounds, and all other manners of beast await you amidst the ravaged and bizarre landscapes you traverse as Caleb, seeking to strike down the dark god Tchernobog, your former master.

Blood innovates to a greater level in how you can kill such abominations, from the typical shotgun and machinegun (tommygun specifically) to the more creative in application, flaregun, dynamite with remote or proximity detonation, and aerosol can with lighter for a flamethrower or quick firebomb. However it takes death a step further with the technological tesla cannon, the incinerating life leech, and the sadistic assassin's favorite tool, the voodoo doll. More weapons await you in the game, but even more, Blood offered a unique dimension for the times of alternate firing modes, significantly expanding the tactical range of each device, and some could even have three functions if combined cleverly.

In Blood, you, and your opponents in singleplayer or multiplayer can be stabbed, jabbed, shot, riddled, maimed, crushed, roasted, exploded, scattered, and castrated, and it has the lush sprite artwork to indicate the misery all enjoy for the sake of others.

But where can such carnage take place? How about a funeral home, train station, an actual moving train, carnival, a variety of temples, a city undergoing a bombing campaign, hospitals, stores, deep within the woods, upon mountain peaks and moving sheets of ice, or even within the entrails of a giant creature? Blood certainly offers variety for those who seek to beget the title name.

Blood is outstanding in two aspects that have been long forgotten in some aspects by modern games. Art design and sound. Blood is an old game, on an old engine. But despite the pixellation and low resolution, it still looks good. The artwork is consistent thematically and in terms of the palette and every place works together quite well. Quite the contrast in the current trend of normal mapping uninspired photos of brick and concrete and then sampling at a high resolution.

The sound is unique for its music, effects, and detail. Blood sounds wonderful when it comes to all the attention paid to it... the smack of a zombies head when you kick it, the dripping of blood onto the ground from a freshly slain cultist, his foot still twitching. Break a window on a train and the locomotive becomes more audible when youre near the shattered glass. Combine that with deep weapon effects, howls of the damned, and play it amidst vibrato string sections and chilled pipe organs and it is a feast for the ears.

Blood is most of all, a horror tribute. It pays homage to great and obscure horror films alike through a host of references and inspired settings. It is however, as I warned, difficult for most, but it is definitely worth the romp. Blood, spill some.

A final note, this game does not function properly on Windows XP, Windows 98 is preferred, however some have had success, such as myself, emulating the game through either DOSbox or a series of patches as guided by Willis of the website deathmask. Dont let operating system differences get between you and one of the best first person shooters to hit the PC.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is the reason I hesitated to upgrade from 98 to XP, May 31, 2006

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Joseph Wallace "josewall" (Savannah, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood: Full Uncut Version (CD-ROM)

and I've always regretted it...until now...there's now a nifty piece of software called " dosbox ". just google it and it will be located within seconds. It creates a pseudo-dos environment that actually works in XP! I even have XP Pro and it still works !But on to the game...Blood is simply THE best and most challenging first person shooter ever made...probably ever will be made...it's unique and appeals to the gothic and horror fans...and the humor is unmatched...I mean what other game to you knock a enemie's head off with a pitchfork and then kick it around like a soccer ball?...yes, the graphics are dated but the fun factor is what we are measuring here folks...don't believe me? then tell me why more people bought Unreal Tournament over Quake 3 ? Q3 obviously had the better graphics...but UT was more fun...seeing a connection yet? You start off as a former minion to the underworld that was betrayed and left for dead...or so they thought...hehehe. The sound effects are so cool and the game itself will scare the hell out of you the first few times you play it...especially in the dark! Do yourself a favor and pick up this treat...either download dosbox if you are running XP , or if you saved a partition and installed both xp and 98 then you shouldn't even be reading this far down...order now! but don't pay that much from these a**pirates trying to get $25 bucks from you!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS...., July 28, 2005

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The Reverend (USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Blood: Full Uncut Version (CD-ROM)

Get this awesome old-school horror game if you're into ... - well: Horror and old-school-gaming :-)
Blood is basically DUKE NUKEM 3D gone Horror and incorporates stuff from probably dozens of good horror classics such as:
- the haunting - friday 13th - evil dead - phantasm - return of the living dead - zombie - dracula - frankenstein - the shining... to name just a few (did I mention H.P. Lovecraft stories?)
The game is something in between seriously creepy and cartoonish - so you're gonna get both scared and amused - a rollercoaster ride pretty much like "From dusk till dawn" (pretty much plays like it, too). The designers must have WORSHIPPED horror movies (funny and creepy ones alike).
The game itself sports the best visuals ever created by the BUILD(tm) engine (Duke Nukem 3d, Hexen, Heretic) - a souped up version of the original DOOM engine. The places you are going to explore throughout the many levels are nothing short of incredible. I'll wet your appetite:
- morningside cemetery+funeral home (Phantasm)
- The Overlook(ed) hotel (The Shining) (awesome, HUGE level even by modern standars with the coolest level design I have ever seen in a game - yes that includes modern ps2, x-box and PC games like Doom3 and Half-Life2)
- Frankenstein's castle - Freddy Krugers cellars - Hill House (The Haunting) - a moving train(!) stuffed with barrels containing bodies for resurrection (Phantasm) - boat trapped in the icy wastes
The most incredible thing is the sound. Admittedly, it's not CD quality, but the sound-effects ... ah the sound effects!!! There's almost a new creepy sound around every corner: from the crickets in the cemetery to the ticking of the clock in the hotel lobby from the wind blowing through icy caves and howling outside the murals of old mansions to the voices of the undead and cultists, who pursue you - its GORGEOUS!!!
Don't even get me started on the cool weapons (pitchfork, voodoo doll, sawed off shotgun, flare-pistol, tesla-gun, life-leech....) and enemies (cultists, zombies, hell-hounds, gargoyles...)
Hey, you get the idea! Just make sure it still runs on your system: windows 95/98, dunno if it works with XP... (DON'T get me started on this mess :-) - complain directly to Big Bill).
And don't just go blastin', but enjoy the athmosphere of the whole thing - it (still) ROCKS!