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7 / 10


Bloodshore, an interactive FMV battle royale game in the style of The Hunger Games and maybe a bit of Squid Game with Max Headroom touch from the 80s/90s
Wales Interactive, known for FMV games such as Five Dates, The Complex, Late Shift and many other interactive films and narrative stories, presents Bloodshore, a reality TV show called Kill/Stream, which is already in its 13th season becomes.
In Bloodshore we take on the role of Nick, a washed-up actor who has left the business and is looking for a new challenge.
For the whole show, which has been more or less going down the drain for several seasons, the makers have really gone all out this time and expanded the rules a bit.
So this time everyone can take part and in the reality TV show, alongside streamers, actors and entertainers, prisoners sentenced to death are now fighting for their lives on a deserted island in the battle royale show.
And of course, as usual, the winner will receive fame and a decent amount of prize money of $10 million. How could it be otherwise? However, the makers of the show have kept a secret from the participants about a new but not entirely unimportant difference in this season of Kill/Stream. This time, unlike previous shows, you can no longer give up, so everyone except the winner dies, this time live and in color.
This time the characters are wonderfully annoying and you actually hope that they die very quickly. One of the few exceptions is Nick, who seems to have something to hide and gives the impression that he himself is on a secret mission, which makes the game really exciting from around the middle. But the game is a bit difficult to bear at times because it is repeatedly interrupted by hectic cuts from the kill/stream show and insertions of viewers and streamers.
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The setting of the game is, as mentioned, a small island that is deserted except for the participants. But unfortunately this often looks more like a local area or forest with gravelled and well-maintained paths and even railway tracks.
As a result, you often have the feeling that this is more of a B-movie with a low budget. You can also see this in the deaths, which are simply made up without much blood, and bullet holes, which, like the ridiculous-looking explosions, were created on the computer and inserted into the film material.
The game itself consists of real film sequences, like an FMV, but this time I found the quality to be rather mediocre. And this applies not only to the film effects, but also to the poor lighting and compression. Unfortunately, I also found the frequently used television screen effect to be a bit too exaggerated and annoying. Even without this, it is actually clear to everyone that the whole thing is happening on television. The sound is decent and the English voice output is clean and easy to understand.
The decisions made in the game also influence attributes such as team morale, audience opinion, love, strength or insight. Unfortunately, this is just an advertisement. But if you end up getting shot because of a “wrong” decision, the game rewinds briefly.
The decisions made have a short-term effect at least from around the middle of the game, but towards the end all the plot threads are brought together again and the different endings therefore only differ marginally.
Free saving is not possible, so you have to watch the entire film again to test different decisions or see endings. You can only skip film scenes that you have already seen, but then only those that you have already seen one-on-one before.
Since many scenes are still similar after a different decision, a lot of things are repeated without being able to skip them. One run takes up to 2 hours and after about 3 to 4 hours you have seen everything.
Bloodshore is more of a film than a game and more of a mixed B-movie. But if you can overlook that or even like B movies, you'll see a really exciting film. However, if you want more than just a film, you should avoid the game or wait for a sale.
FMV lovers certainly can't avoid the game.
Despite all the odds, Bloodshore is overall a good game with lots of action and twists and good performances of the actors, who are all quite convincing, which offered me a successful change for a few hours on a cold and wet November day.

MY PROS AND CONS:
✔ Decisions with consequences
✔ Different scenes
✔ Convincing actors
✔ Good staging
✔ Good atmosphere
✔ Different endings
✔ Successful gaming fun
✘ some weak effects and film quality
✘ annoying characters
✘ Logic errors
✘ exaggerated TV screen effect
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1490840/Bloodshore/