Where’s Buffy and Willow?

In the previous game, Sarah Michelle Gellar was MIA for voice acting duties. For the sequel, we can add Alyson Hannigan to the AWOL list. As we’ve mentioned, the voice-double for the role of Buffy does an amazing job of sounding like the real thing. Unfortunately, the same thing cannot be said for the role of Willow. While the double for Hannigan makes an attempt at Willow, she doesn’t quite capture the way the real McCoy speaks. Obviously, the rest of the cast sound spot-on as they are the actual show actors themselves. One of the fun factors from the first game was the one-liners, many of which are quite funny, and they’re back in this game. Some of the lines do get repetitive, but it’s these one-liners that help inject so much Buffy character into the game that they’d be sorely missed like Alyson Hannigan.

Fun for four

Completely new to the Buffy 3D world is multiplayer. Up to four players can choose from over 20 characters to compete for victory. There are four multiplayer game modes: Survival, which is just deathmatch; Domination, which plays like the UT mode, Slayer Challenge, where one controls the Slayer and others control the opposing monsters; and best for last, Bunny Catcher, where you catch bunnies for points. To spice things up a little, various power-ups can be picked up, such as increased speed, invulnerability, quad-damage, and even ones with negative affects such as halving your health or, even worse, instant death.

The main draw of Chaos Bleeds is its single player campaign, but the multiplayer component is a lot of fun. After finishing the story mode a couple times, the multiplayer bits will help keep that DVD spinning. It’s no multiplayer Halo, but still a welcome addition.