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Title: Blood Brothers
Author:Tadcorporation
Rom Player: mame
Reviewer: test tube
Synopsis: If you ever wondered what would happen if Arnold Swarxxzzeenettchzenegger made prequel movie to Commando set in the old west in the 80s this is definitely what it would be like. The Japanese must have very twisted ideas about how the old American west was or either they were all eating magic shrooms while programming this game.
Ok you are ARNOLD, well actually you aren’t but it looks a helluva lot like Arnold. You view Arnold, complete in cowboy outfit from his back, he's usually facing a bunch of saloons and banks and bad guys pop out of windows, run down the street, run after you. You can only move from left to right and jump. And yes you blow the living shit out of your enemies. Sounds dull right?
Wrong!
This game's cheese has slid off of its cracker, after I shot at a bad guy in a window and missed a bunch of times the building exploded and crumbled to the ground! I then figured out the object of each level is to demolish entire cities and towns with your six shooters(you get weapon upgrades like shotguns and machine guns), and after every building has crumbled and piles of smoldering dead white men lay every where your little Arnold guy runs around the burning rubble dancing and jumping in the air with orgasmic joy.
I'm not to clear on the story but a game called Blood Brothers where the 1st player is a white guy and 2nd player is an Indian suggests something of you teamed up with an Indian and you are destroying everything created by the White MAN on stolen Indian land. ????? I don't know, you do also blow away heaps of Indians who for some weird ass reason have grenade launchers and fly WW1 bombers. There are also blimps with flame throwers on them.
The action in this game moves fast and the controls are great, you can just hold down on the fire button and bazillions of bullets while bodies and buildings explode all over the place. The graphics are good in a 1990-1994 type way, classic type you know. This is another great arcade game I never saw anywhere while growing up in the late 80s and early 90s, I never heard of it until I found a ROM file of it .. somewhere, I forgot.
All in all, this game kicks ass, it looks kind of like that movie The Professionals with Lee Marvin. Yes the one where he and his team go around chucking dynamite at Mexican banditos and blowing about 40000 people and 3000 buildings up before the end. Yes that is the same film Tarantino ripped the LETS GO TO WORK line for Reservoir Dogs from. And yes this game would make a kick ass movie, especially with Arnold in it.
Best Cheats: None
Game Play: 9
Graphics: 7
Music/Sound: 5
Originality: 6
Overall Rating: 8
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