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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Infobox video game Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 2000 beat 'em up game developed by GameBrains and published by THQ. Based on the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the game features Buffy Summers, who fights vampires, demons, and other supernatural entities as the Slayer. The player controls Buffy through eight side-scrolling levels, and gameplay centers on one-on-one fights with vampires.

Gameplay

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game divided into eight levels, which include a mansion and the Sunnydale zoo.[1] The player controls Buffy Summers, a Slayer destined to fight vampires, demons, and other supernatural entities.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Gameplay is focused on one-on-one fights with vampires.Шаблон:Sfn Although vampires are the game's only enemy type, there are six variations: tux, punk, disfigured, tribesman, Euro, and guardian.Шаблон:Sfn The player fights two master vampires as bosses: a Viking and a beast vampire. To defeat them, the player must knock them down and stake them through the heart.Шаблон:Sfn A game over occurs when Buffy loses all of her health. Along with attacking, the player can block an enemy's attack, throw them, and roll on the ground.Шаблон:Sfn

Levels do not include any obstacles or traps, and while they incorporate platforming, none of the falls are lethal.Шаблон:Sfn AllGame's Brett Alan Weiss described the jumping mechanic as "super leaps".Шаблон:Sfn The game does not have any collectible items or different weapons.Шаблон:Sfn The player can pick up small objects, like paint cans, to throw at a vampire, but they can only be used when an enemy is onscreen.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Levels also have power-ups, such as soda cans that provide "super punches and kicks".Шаблон:Sfn Each level ends with a password which functions as the game's save points that allow players to replay the level.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn While Buffy is the game's only playable character, other Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters appear in cutscenes between levels.Шаблон:Sfn

Plot

The game is set in the show's fourth season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Шаблон:Sfn

Development and release

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was developed by GameBrains and published by THQ.Шаблон:Sfn In March 2000, THQ announced the game as part of a partnership with Fox Interactive.Шаблон:Sfn The game discussed in this announcement was set for a 2000 release.Шаблон:Sfn Both companies would collaborate for a second Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game in 2003 for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King.Шаблон:Sfn A pre-alpha demo was available at E3 in May 2000,Шаблон:Sfn before being released on September 19, 2000, as a Game Boy Color exclusive.[2] The game was not backward compatible with the Game Boy.Шаблон:Sfn

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