Bad Blood
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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A nuclear war has turned the world into a wasteland. The pure-blooded humans have retreated in large cities while mutants live in small villages on the plains where they make a living by hunting the many monsters. Now one of the human leaders, Lord Dominix, wants to start a war to wipe out all the "bad-blooded" mutants. Your village chief has assigned you with the task of preventing this war.

Bad Blood is a top-down action game with light role-playing elements. You can not create your own character but have to pick one of the three predefined ones: Varrigg (a strong green mutant who fights with his bare hands), Dekker (a human male armed with a knife) or Jakka (she looks human but can shoot laser beams from her eyes like Cyclops of X-Men fame). The choice you make has only a limited impact on gameplay and storyline.

Gameplay consists of exploring the world map, visiting several cities and villages, talking with NPCs, picking up items and new weapons (like shotguns, grenades, Uzis etc.) and lots of real-time combat. Bad Blood lacks character stats and character development. The game has a day-night cycle which influences the amount of monsters on the plains and whether or not you can talk with some NPCs.

Trivia

About the game items: The apple is an apple computer you can find in the city. The Oracle is not to be found until you find the apple, and then, after you find the apple most of your village irregulars will claim that this apple is not edible. 

A re-release was created which featured better graphics.

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Description from the packaging:

Pulse-pounding arcade action!
Radioactive role-playing!
The ultimate post-apocalypse saga!
Are you mutant enough to handle it?

In a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, the pure-blooded humans have sworn to exterminate their mutant cousins. Only you can prevent it!

Eye-popping graphics and bone-jarring music.

Battle dozens of lethal foes in real-time arcade combat. Gun-toting slavers, airborne buzzards and the terrible Urse push your survival skills to the ragged edge!

Arm yourself to the teeth with weapons like sawed-off shotguns, rapid-fire oozees and high powered buzzooks.

Interact with the survivors in this blasted world using a fast-moving, menu-driven conversation system.

Explore searing wastelands, ramshackle towns, ravaged cities, and hidden underground complexes seething with forgotten technology and mutated monsters.

You're the hottest slicer in the village- that's why the Himukk picked you.
"If the humans attack," he said, "we're slag." See what's got'em wadded up, an' try to fix it.

You've been trekkin' for days, hammerin' buzzars and turkels, huntin' the Oracle. For all you know, you're already too late.

With a blade in your hand and an oozee on your hip, you can take those snaky spuds. You hope...

http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/bad-blood
