Blood

Blood is a first-person shooter video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by GT Interactive Software.The shareware version was released for the MS-DOS on March 7, 1997, while the full version was later released on May 21 in North America, and June 20 in Europe. FirstBlood is a strategic partner for Peruvian gamers and a brand recognized by the great number of players of Dota 2 in our country. The esports platform is extremely useful for professional tournaments as we need to host around 1000 players at the same time & FirstBlood helps with all logistics before, during and after every qualifier. I am using BloodGDX 0.784 with the GOG version of One Unit Whole Blood. The game runs great, Sound is great, CD Audio works but, I have encountered one really big game-breaking problem! The game keeps minimizing to desktop randomly when I press any mouse button (and I use all my Mouse Buttons in FPS games old and new)!

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Arguably the best game ever made with Ken Silverman's Build 3D engine (the engine behind Duke Nukem 3D games), Blood is an excellent, atmospheric, and highly replayable first-person shooter that distinguishes itself from other DOOM clones with a great (albeit campy) sense of humor, memorable monsters, weapons, and sound effects - and of course a ton of blood.

First, it must be said that if you are offended by excessive gore and violence, don't play this game. True to its name, there is a lot of gore in Blood: fountains of blood spurt from everything you kill, decaying bodies explode in gory chunks when you hit them, and you will often find recognizable body parts and still-breathing humans crucified on walls. This makes the game very 'over the top' in the gore department, and intentionally so. The result is that Blood is more silly and funny than scary - a 'B-movie' kind of game. But as far as campy games go, Blood is by far one of the best and most entertaining. It makes up for any potential offense with wit and charm - but only if you are willing to lower your sensitivity threshold.

Now that we get the caveat out of the way, let's talk about the game proper. Fortunately, the catchy theme of gory violence is not all that Blood has to offer. While the graphics in Blood is inferior to other DOOM clones (they look too blurry and the palette too dull to me), the environment is wonderfully alive. Thanks to the Build engine, the sheer amount of actions you can do in this game is amazing. You can blow huge parts of the environment up - even destroy an entire train if you want. In addition to plenty of undead monsters, you will meet a number of memorable and funny characters including JoJo the Idiot Boy, as well as original monsters such as mimes.

The monsters AI is very good, especially when compared to most other DOOM clones. Blood also has excellent sound effects that more than make up for pixellated graphics: from the zombies' mumbles, to disembodied voices from the past, to your character, Caleb, quoting cool one-liners from Evil Dead and Shakespeare (he beats Duke Nukem 3D quips hands-down in my opinion), sounds add a great atmosphere to the game.

As would be even more evident in Monolith's later games (No One Lives Forever for instance), the level design in Blood is very clever, and is clearly what the designers put a lot of thought on. There are many thin walls you can blow open, rotating rooms, and fun and memorable 'theme' levels (an abandoned ship, the carnival, and a moving train are my favorites). The gameplay is the same 'find key X to open door Y to find key Z that opens door A that contains key..' gameplay of most DOOM games, mixed with a fair amount of switch throwing. But the fun level design, the sense of humor in everything, and the number of secrets you can discover make Blood very entertaining and eminently replayable.

Equally innovative is the design of weapons and various power-ups. Most of your weapons are very unique, original, and just plain fun to use. While you start the game with a standard-looking pitchfork, you will soon collect an impressive array of cool weapons, including a voodoo doll, a tommy gun, the aerosol can, and the life leech. Although the game suffered from a lot of bugs in the original release, they are minor bugs that did not detract from the excellent gameplay. Excellent multiplayer support and map/level editor rounds off this excellent game.

If you love 3D shooters, can at least tolerate campy humor, and are not offended by 'cheesy' gore and violence, Blood is one of the best games you will ever play. If you like the game, check out its excellent (but slightly less fun) sequel called Blood 2 also on this site. Two thumbs up, way up!

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Civvie 112021-01-143 points

Atari Sucks #FreeCivvie

Atari sux2019-10-22-1 point

This game is abandonware again. Just check the link 'BUY ON GOG' here, it redirects to gog.com/games because the game is not available anymore! Atari has removed it from GOG and from Steam too! It is abandonware again!

Killbilly2019-08-081 point

Great game, in fact probably the best of this era 'before full 3d'.
But I have to admit m probably weak, but never finished it whole, becaouse after few days playing it I started to feel actually sick from all the gore, dead decaying bodies, horryfic scenes etc. I learned I have limits in this way, because althrough this game is in fact full of humour, it really can give you real nightmares at sleep.
S topped in some level, where carpet airplane bombing of a city in desperate try to stop the invasion of evil occured.

smrle2019-03-02-1 point

cant find it on GOG.
is it banned in Germany or what?
pls help :(

chris2018-12-24-47 points

dont play this piece of crap.

LJG2018-05-21-1 point

How do I get the sound working? I can't get the game to run any of the sound card options right because of errors like MPU-104 errors when I try to run the Sound Canvas and General Midi options and IRQ errors when I try to use AWE 32 or Sound Blaster. I have no choice but to play with no sound. Help?

Caleb2018-01-062 points

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Really cool game, best of it's kind. Duke Nunem, Shadow Warrior etc, none of them can compare in level design, gameplay diversity between levels, music and of course black humor!

Space Man 1007892018-01-040 point

I love this game for it's graphics gameplay and music but I love the humor

Overmind2017-11-300 point

Best FPS ever !
And I say that in 2017 after competing over 1000 games.

a goody goodie2017-07-090 point

i bought the steam version but you're all better off getting blood CM since it has the One Unit Whole and it's a source port plus it's free

NISAR2017-05-20-3 points

GUY FAWKES2017-04-221 point

Oops. Didn't realize it but this it the deluxe version, both packs are included. I found two additional unofficial expansions too:
Read Hot: http://bloodline.eu/downloads-show-112
And Level Pack 6: http://forums.transfusion-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1133
I also found a cd image of the cd audio tracks ripped here: http://www.moddb.com/games/blood/downloads/blood-cd-quailty-audio
mount it in DOSBox to use.

GUY FAWKES2017-04-221 point

Anyone have the expansion packs 'Cryptic Passage' & 'Plasma Pak' (episodes 5 & 6)?

Wolfe2017-03-010 point

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Seem to have sound sorted but mine says it cant detect FM chip and wont load... any ideas???

Mars2017-02-263 points

No sound?