You've finished the shareware?

Errius wrote:

You've finished the shareware?

Nope - just wanted to get the scoop on this game before even trying it.

It's a very good game. Play the shareware before spending any money on it though.

I enjoyed the game; it's probably my favorite of the Build-engine games. It's got some interesting environments and weapons.

That said, I don't think I'd pay more than 15-20 dollars for it if I were to buy a physical copy. You can also grab it from GOG for only 5 bucks with expansion packs included: https://www.gog.com/game/one_unit_whole_blood

Shponglefan wrote:

I enjoyed the game; it's probably my favorite of the Build-engine games. It's got some interesting environments and weapons.

That said, I don't think I'd pay more than 15-20 dollars for it if I were to buy a physical copy. You can also grab it from GOG for only 5 bucks with expansion packs included: https://www.gog.com/game/one_unit_whole_blood

Yeah, I'll probably go this route, thanks.

Blood is great, to me it's the second best Build game, after Duke Nukem 3D, and as Shponglefan says, you can get it from GOG (GOG is great, no DRM so you can put a game on all of your PC/Laptops). I *really* wouldn't bother with Blood 2 though, as it's massively inferior from what I remember.

I would say Blood, along with Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior and Redneck Rampage were the quartet coming from the same engine, that were unique and still are worth playing. All of them utilize the Build engine, and yet, have different feel and unrelated environment looks.

Blood feels a lot different than the more colorful and comical DN3D, SW & RR. Creepy. Yet exciting.

20-30 bucks boxed or just the disc?

I'd pay 20-30 bucks boxed. If it's just the disc, you're better off going on GOG.

30$ for a boxed copy is really cheap nowdays...

dickkickem wrote:

20-30 bucks boxed or just the disc?

I'd pay 20-30 bucks boxed. If it's just the disc, you're better off going on GOG.

Just the disk with case. Guess I'm a tightwad, probably going with GOG. Anyways played the shareware version a bit, it IS creepy and different than most FPS I've played.

It's an alright game though it does wear out its welcome hard mid-episode 3.

There's also the bad fanbase problem, which is what you'd expect for any game carrying horror theme baggage tbh

Malik wrote:

I would say Blood, along with Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior and Redneck Rampage were the quartet coming from the same engine

Sort of. AFAIK Shadow Warrior and Redneck Rampage are forks/reskins of DN3D, while Blood has a a newer version of Build engine and the rest of the game practically written from scratch.
You can see that Blood is the odd one out by looking at game directory: DN3D, SW and RR use .grp data file containers, while Blood does not.
This is also part of the story why Blood sourceports are almost non-existing.

Shadow Warrior has more features than Blood and some rather important bug fixes that Monolith decided were not worth the time implementing in Blood. (namely the broken room over room implementations among other pitfalls)

Azarien wrote:

You can see that Blood is the odd one out by looking at game directory: DN3D, SW and RR use .grp data file containers, while Blood does not.

Well, that in itself does not mean much; the GRP file is merely a container for all the assets. You can extract all assets from the .GRP and use them "as is" from the game directory; this is supported from the very early Build engine games.

Azarien: the source code to Blood is in some way in legal limbo, the only real source code for blood is some early blood source code, also known as Blood alpha.