Buy Blood

Some people enjoyed Duke Nukem 3D, some people were crazy about Doom, some other spent their time in Quake.
I played Blood and stabbed my enemies with a Pitchfork. I ate their bleeding hearts to replenish health.
I visited Dark Carnival and enjoyed every bloody attraction. I kicked Zombie's decapitated heads,'cause it's fun.

And I rised from the grave.
10/10 would dig myself out again.

I played and completed this game in the late 90s. This is the best of the 90's build engine games. Yes, even better than Duke Nukem 3D. Excellent atmosphere, spooky music, cool weapons, nice enemies, and good gameplay.

A must buy if you're interested in old school shooters.

Blood is a masterpiece of a game. But this is just a lazy DOSBOX emulation. Not to even mention the fact that Atari has the source code and they are just to lazy to release it and allow the community to make proper ports. The game's soundtrack is also bugged and will not even play certain tracks. Controls are annoying to set up. The game also runs sluggish on modern sytems. To put the icing on the cake, to access the expansion pack content (Cryptic Passage), you must create a shortcut for it in the file folder! I recommend this game like all hell, but not the Steam version. If only they could've took the Duke Nukem 3D or Shadow Warrior route, those are proper ports. The GoG version is digitally packed better (shortcuts), but suffers some of the same issues.

1/5 - Lazy DOS Emulation.

Note: Check out this launcher that will allow you to play Cryptic Passage and more! (Scroll down for English.) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=287113746

Glad that Blood is finally on Steam. Well worth the price. It's a good classic for fans of DOOM, Duke Nukem, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, etc.

Blood is a cult (literally) classic old-school FPS created by Monolith Software around the Doom / Duke3D era. It features fantastic graphics from the era, multiple (and sometimes comedic) references to music, poetry, books, movies, and even other videogames, a plethora of fun and unique weapons each with two different attacks (except the pitchfork), a strong line up of memorable levels like the Carnival and the Hedgemaze spanning 5 chapters, engaging and exciting enemies, and great midi music with modern (2004) remakes of each.

For old-school FPS gamers who remember playing this back in 1998, this is a warm welcome.

Unfortunately, Blood has to run through DOSBox. Don't let this dissuade you, it works fantastically, but there are a number of .cfg tweaks to get it to run completely properly.

My two biggest and only gripes I have involve the music.
1. From the untweaked version, the default music is the (in my opinion) inferior 2004 remakes of the original midi music.
----1a. This is easily fixed by deleting the blood0#.ogg files in the main folder. This fix reverts the music back to the original midis.

2. The music's volume cannot be lowered or turned off through BLOOD.CFG or the ingame options menu. Now if you enjoy the music, this shouldn't be a problem, but if you want your game to be a bit more quiet, you'd have to adjust the volume in Windows Volume control and raise the Sound Effects volume in game.

Blood has been one of my favorite old-school FPSes for a very long time and I'm glad to see it and it's sequel finally land on Steam. While a couple of tweaks and fixes are neccessary, they should not sway your purchase negatively. Blood still runs flawlessly and contains hours and hours of fun. Now we just wait for Redneck Rampage to be added to Steam.

10/10

I LIVE AGAIN

OMG Thank you so much Steam for giving us all Blood

A gem from the original Doom, Duke Nukem and Heretic era (so expect old school play here)

As I played through the first episode, I remembered everything I loved about the game. The use of alternate fire modes which was pretty much unheard of in it's day, a few weapon types that are comletely unique to the game, set to a protaganist who's dark humour makes you smile while feeling oddly disturbed at the same time.

The game is hard - as I said, we're talking old school here. The game doesn't hand hold you one bit. But if you can figure the weapons out along with their alternate fires, the gameplay is very satisfying.

And finally, the 8 bit music. Hard to believe, but this stuff is actually pretty good. They hit that sweet spot where it sets the mood nicely and at times is deeply disturbing. Rarely repetive or annoying.

It's a steal at 5 bucks.

OH YES! This classic is finally on steam. I must of played hundreds of hours on this game years ago when this came game out. Hours of fun in single player and countless 100+ hours of multiplayer. I played Multiplayer on MPlayer gaming service. Was free and was really fun and easy to join in games. I was really good back in the day. I was in a few clans also! TC clan I rememeber! Clan matches was epic and multiplayer was amazing. I had the demo only so I only played the first campaign maps. I know them all by heart and my favorite mp level has to be the first level E1M1!!! Clan match galore on that map! I recently been playing multiplayer on Meltdown but that so patheticly buggy I stopped playing. Yang anyone?! This game is $5 and totally worth it. 5 campaigns and there are thousands of user maps for SP/Coop and MP around for hours of gameplay!

1000 map pack here and epic map database
http://www.blood.freeminded.de/ 187mb!

More maps/mods/etc here
http://www.dukertcm.com/knowledge-base/downloads-rtcm/blood-addons/

Multiplayer Yang support
http://yang-online.com/

If you must... Meltdown Mutliplayer
http://duke3donline.com/

Caleb said - 'Well that's ONE way to open somebody up, but not nearly as quick or fun as my method!'... And this promises to be fun!
So, if you are fan of Evil Dead, like me, you shall get it anyway.

This game is the epitome of perfection. The story, the awesome level designs, the pop culture references. The atmosphere is amazing, I am so happy to finally play this amazing game!

Shoot axe weilding maniacs with a flare gun then play soccer with their heads.

Playing this at 13 turned me into a psychopath for life.

666/10

One of my all time favourite old classic FPS games. It's right up there among the best with the original Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. If you haven't played it, you probably should.
As the title suggests it's really gory, I doubt that anyone could release a game nowdays where you can split a foe into 2 parts with the good old napalm launcher and then see how the top half suffocates in it's own blood. Good times.

Ok, here's the thing, this game is fantastic and i believe it's probably one of the best fps to come out in the 90s on DOS. I love this game to death but this steam version is not what it seems it would be. DON'T BUY THIS VERSION, it's just the original DOS version and it runs on DOSBOX 0.73. I wish i could recommend this game but i just can't do to this problem, the resolution is bad on new systems, the controls feel akward (especially when the control scheme is over 15 years old and isn't needed anymore), the mouse movement feels clunky and slow, and there are many other problems with this game. There may be people who argue with me that this version is good because it "sticks to it's roots" but honestly marketing the game as a redone version and it just being the original version is unacceptable. Also, you can't release a game in this state from the 90s and just not re-do it like Duke 3D, Doom, or Shadow Warrior (which were all redone and run fantasticly on new systems). It's too bad, this had to happen to one of my favorites. Honestly, i will try to play this game to my best ability, because it's so great, and if you don't want to listen to what i'm saying and buy it, then just be aware what you're buying into.

I appreciate you reading and i hope this review will help you to think twice before you purchase this game on steam.

Blood is a classic, nothing else needs to be said about that. You loved it for good reason back in 1998. The religious horror setting really helped it to stand out among Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior, two other games developed in the same engine. It was obvious that with the porting of Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior that retro FPS fans would be excited for a port of Blood.

However, this is not a good port, it is just a lazy dosbox emulation.

The game doesn't even let you play all of it's episodes that it comes with until you edit configuration files. You also have to edit and mod just to get mouse look to work, to get the game to not suffer performance issues, to restore the music to its original format and prevent t from bugging out and looping, to get the Steam overlay to work, among other things.

The worst part is that nobody can get the rights from Monolith to do anything with this property ever since they were bought out and gutted from the inside by Warner Bros, so we will probably never get an enhanced port that offers the basic modern features we have adjusted to, or at least one that doesn't have problems out the gate.

I have spent several hours just trying to get this game set up the way I want and it won't work out for me, I'm done trying. You shouldn't have to put in hours of work just to get a game to run the way you want it.

It's like I took five dollars and burned it because I wanted to experience Blood again.

Don't do what I or anyone else did, you might as well pirate the game and dump it into an emulator/engine that will actually let do what you want with ease. The pain and effort to get to play this game might technically be worth it, but there is simply not enough that you can do to make this playable.

And honestly, does anybody look back at the days of using your mouse to move and the arrow keys to turn fondly?

Use a Spray-can with a ligther to set your enemies on fire! (10/10)

This game deserves a remake over all!

Action-packed and fast-paced gameplay, a murderous but never unfair difficulty and a nice amount of gore!

Damn cool one-liners (I don't recall any modern game having such cool remarks!), rewarding secrets and macabre level-design form a hell-of-a-perfect gameplay-experience!

This one was a gem in a time where the Duke and the Space Marine dominated the gaming scene. I got this game since first release and was blown away from its atmosphere. The game title reflects perfectly the content. Playing as Caleb against the army of the undead you start with only one motto: "What are you gonna do? Bleed on me?". The game is a piece of gaming history.

This game is simply cool. There are many reasons but I will only name the few that makes it cool for me:
- best title for a video game
- best title for a fps
- title reflects the game content to 100%
- one of the coolest player characters in a video game
- very good level design
- very high gore level
- player character is the best singer in a video game
- best interpretation of Frank Sinatra songs like "strangers in the night" and "my way" in a video game
- best interpretation of Dean Martins song "everybody loves somebody"
- most sick level design passages you will find a video game
- better secret placement than in Doom
- best placed references to horror movies like Friday, 13th, Evil Dead, The Shining, Halloween etc in a video game.
- best laugh audio sounds in a video game
- best speaker for a main character in a video game
- best black humor found in a video game

I could also tell you more about the game and game mechanics itself but if you are on this page you most probably are familiar with classic fps which are influenced by Doom. So there is everything said.

Buy this game, play this game and enjoy this game.
If you love classic fps you will adore this one.
If you are new to classic fps try this one you will love before you adore it.
If you don't like classic fps get his and you will start to like it, before you love it and before you adore it.
If you hate classic fps hopp into this one to learn to play it, before you start to like it, before you love it and before you adore it.

You will remember this review as soon as you play this game. You will remember this review as soon as you completed the game. And than you will sit back and say to yourself: "Damn! This guy was right".

I played this game A LOT years ago and a little bit today. It hasn't changed. I still love it. Caleb the is an awesome player character with with frequent one liners. Better than Duke Nukem. The gameplay itself is pretty damn too. So yes I reccommend this game.

(optional let's play video)
http://youtu.be/lcuTm2s5U-k
How to make the controls better:

A few things you will probably want to do to make the game more playable is to set up the controls like a modern FPS game i.e. WASD keys for movement instead of directional keys and enabling mouse control.

You can change keyboard binding inside the actual game menu. So your going to want to change strafe left and right to 'A' and 'D'; 'E' or 'F' or whater to use action and so on. Change space to jump probably, Ctrl or C or whatever to crouch. If you repeatedly bind an action to a key I think it will clear unwanted controls (if you are using the in game menu). For example repeatedly binding space to jump will clear the 'A' key from jump so that you aren't jumping everytime time you strafe left. There doesn't seem to be a proper way to just unbind keys in the in game menu.

You can also change keybindings in the setup program which is also the only way that I could see to change the mouse button binding which you will probably want to change. So to get in the setup program for Blood. Find the One Unit Whole Blood folder in the steam/steamapps/common folder or wherever. Then drag setup.exe into the dosbox.exe icon. This will launch the setup program which probably won't work if you try run without the dosbox emulator. In the setup program I rebound the right click to secondary (special attack or whatever it's called) instead of move forward, turned the the sensitivity and inverted mouse control. Just keep pressing escape when you are done to exit the setup and make sure you save by pressing 'y' when you are prompted. Launching the game from setup.exe might not work. Just restart the from steam after closing the setup and saving your changes.

Okay so the game a few flaws which I will just warn you about. Actually I can only think one now other than the default controls, maybe I'll add more later. Sometime projectiles from your weapons will clip in objects when they should clearly go straight to your target. Basically I was firing at a Zombie point blank over a cash register but I hitting the cash register. You just have work around this sort of stuff.

Go play it, it's only 5 bucks!!!!!!! (Oh yeah just when I first bought this game I think it may have been like $80 and we didn't even have a PC that could run it lol)

Click here for more let’s play videos =)

When I saw Blood was on steam I knew I had to get it I loved playing this game when I was young and i'm happy that its still as awesome and fun as it was then, the levels are packed full of serects and weapons which will keep you entertained for ages and for the price it is a great deal. So grab a pitchfork and flare gun and start roasting the undead!

An awesome, awesome game. Like all old games, it will take some time to set it up correctly (but given the year this was released this is acceptable, there are new games that will not run as smooth as this one even after days of configuring). Get bmouse mod for x-y interpolation and set up a launcher for expansion pack Cryptic Passage, as it's otherwise not accessible.

If you'll find yourself craving for more there are tons of mods and even a relatively active community out there. Check out the forums!

crudux cruo!