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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 113: Blood
Description: Blood, first released in 1997 by Monolith Studios, was the middle child of the big three Build Engine games, sandwiched in between Duke 3D and Shadow Warrior. Its combination of gory horror-inspired visuals combined with action filled FPS gameplay was a huge hit at the time of release, but has slowly faded in many people’s memories. Both Quake and Half Life loom larger in most people’s memories than Blood, and the question must be asked: why?Is there a good reason that Blood has become one of the dark horses of the boomer FPS genre, known mainly...