Bloody Roar is a fighting video game developed by Raizing and Hudson Soft for the PlayStation. It was released in Japan on November 6, 1997, in North America on March 5, 1998, and in Europe in March 1998. The game is the first installment of the Bloody Roar series. The game's story centers on a group of warriors known as "zoanthropes", who have the power to transform into half-human half-animal "Beasts", and the Tylon Corporation, an underground organization that seeks to use zoanthropes as mind-controlled weapons.