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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds

Buffy and the crew are back for another battle against evil. On this occasion (set as a 'missing episode' from the TV series' fifth season), the powerful vampire Kakistos and The First are ready for war, and…

65 27 August 2003 ESRB T

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software, released 27 August 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds is

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and released in 2003. It was published by Fox Interactive. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Buffy and the crew are back for another battle against evil. On this occasion (set as a 'missing episode' from the TV series' fifth season), the powerful vampire Kakistos and The First are ready for war, and the only ones standing in their way is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her friends Willow (an at times powerful witch), Faith (a fellow Slayer), Spike (former evil vampire turned slightly good) and Xander (caught in the middle of his best friends work). You get the chance to play as each character during the game as you slay vampires, solve puzzles and collect items along the way to prepare you for the final showdown. Various other characters from the show appear to help you out, while…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds is the fifth of 5 entries we hold in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

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How it was received

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds launched on 27 August 2003, within three weeks of Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tales of Symphonia, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.

Official trailer

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds was released on 27 August 2003 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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