Bloody Roar 2

It has since been re-released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable via the North American PlayStation Network as of 2021. The game was followed up by Bloody Roar 3 (2000).

• Title — Bloody Roar 2 • Developer — Raizing • Director — Kenji Fukuya Susumu Hibi • Designer — Tetsu Ozaki • Programmer — Yasunari Watanabe Yūichi Ochiai • Artist — Shinichi Ōnishi Naochika Morishita • Composer — Arcade Manabu Namiki Kenichi Koyano Masaharu Iwata Jin Watanabe PlayStation Takayuki Negishi • Series — Bloody Roar • Platforms — Arcade, PlayStation • Released — Arcade September 1998PlayStation • Genre — Fighting • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Arcade System — Sony ZN-1

• Illustration — Alice (left) versus Busuzima (right), both in beast mode Just like its predecessor, every character has a beast form that can be used to initiate new attacks, recover some lost health and generally be faster and/or more powerful with their attacks. In addition, the sequel introduces "Beast Drives": super attacks that initiate a cutscene and inflict substantial damage towards the opponent, with each Beast Drive varying in uniqueness depending on the character.

Five years after the events of the first game, the zoanthropes who had gotten involved in the conflict against the fallen Tyron Corporation have since resumed their normal and peaceful lives. However, the peace does not last long as a new threat emerges. With the revelation of the zoanthropes' existence being made and known full well to the world, tensions and hostilities between humans and zoanthropes start to rise at an alarming and dangerous rate. The conflict gives birth to an organization called the Zoanthrope Liberation Front, or ZLF for short, which espouses zoanthrope supremacy, threatening both humans and non-member zoanthropes alike. Meanwhile, Alan Gado, a figure known for promoting understanding between zoanthropes and humans, becomes a fugitive for an unclear reason. Several rebel zoanthropes are thrown into a battle with the ZLF and Gado with the fate of the world at their hands. Eventually, it is revealed that the ZLF's supposed "leader", Shenlong, is actually a puppet under the control of Hajime Busuzima, who masquerades as the group's right-hand man. Although he manages to flee, the rebels are able to subdue Shenlong and disband the ZLF. Subsequently, the rebels are tasked by Gado, who became a fugitive merely to escape attention, to band together and create a movement with the aim to achieve peace and reconciliation between the zoanthropes and humans.

The game features a total of eleven playable characters. Seven are new additions with one is re-introduced from the first game as a regular playable character: • Bakuryu: A mole zoanthrope and successor to another mole zoanthrope with the same name. A ninja assassin formerly employed by Tylon Corporation as a weapon, he was found by Yugo Ogami during the events of the first game and adopted as his younger brother, being given the name Kenji. • Uriko Nonomura: A cat zoanthrope half-beast. When she was a little child, she was kidnapped and brainwashed into a prototype Uranus the Chimera by Tylon Corporation, where she served as the first game’s final boss. Although she was freed by her mother, Mitsuko, the experiment conducted on her had produced a weakening side effect, preventing her from turning into a full cat beast form. • Stun: An insect zoanthrope. As a human named Steven Goldberg, he was employed as a scientist of Tylon Corporation alongside Hajime Busuzima, but quit upon learning that his experiments used live zoanthrope subjects. Subsequently, Busuzima captured and turned him into a "man-made zoanthrope". • Shina: A leopard zoanthrope. She is Alan Gado's adopted daughter and follows his footsteps in becoming a mercenary. • Jenny Burtory: A bat zoanthrope and a freelancer. • Hajime Busuzima: A chameleon zoanthrope. He is a scientist intrigued by the power of zoanthropes. • Shenlong: A tiger zoanthrope. He is a clone of Long used by Tylon Corporation as a weapon. The other four are returning characters from the first game: • Yugo Ogami: A wolf zoanthrope. • Alice Tsukagami: A rabbit zoanthrope. • Alan Gado: A lion zoanthrope. • Jin Long: A tiger zoanthrope.