[DOS GAME] Bloodlust Software – Timeslaughter (1996) – Intro, Attract Demo, Gameplay
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Criminally forgotten bloody fighting game which makes Mortal Kombat series look childish. 10 murderous characters (+ 4 hidden), lots of moves and specials, great artwork & music and of course, Slaughter Moves, which are simply Fatalities done as an art of absurd violence. Gameplay reminds me Street Fighter 2 (3 keys for punches, 3 keys for kicks) mixed with MK or Time Killers. At release it was distributed as a shareware but somewhere in 2000 authors (two guys, apparently!) decided to make it freeware.
Too bad that there are no news about TS2 (”We are aiming for a 2007 release”) but some AWESOME arts of few characters and that’s all… More information, more games and download of Timeslaughter at website: http://www.bloodlustsoftware.com/main.html
Also DevianArt account of Ethan James Petty, the main artist and designer: http://ringmasterbent.deviantart.com/
The gameplay done by me is a pretty crap – for too long time I haven’t been playing any fighting games, so you won’t see much. No Slaughter Moves, the level is not the best (Lazarus itself is weak – but AI tactic is often to make you into the corner od the screen and beat up to bloody pulp)… Maybe next time I’ll show something better.
Just noticed – in the intro at one point Smegma’s (surgeon-like character) voice is cut. Dunno how it happened…
Duration : 0:8:2
Finding its way into the real world via shareware BBS CDs, Gore Galore was neither gory nor was it any good. Touting itself as a splatterfest, it mainly came off as a low-rent Wolfenstein clone. Oh, and it had a poo gun too.