You get a lot of background – about how the previous seasons used volunteer prison inmates, before eventually opening up entry to everyone. It makes you feel like you're watching one of those quick-cut YouTube videos, rather than a "movie" that the game tries to be. The game constantly flips between the story on the island, to the commentary, to the fan reactions, to the interview revelations at breakneck speed. However, where Bloodshore falters is that all of these scenes are so extremely brief and hastily cut together. It's a fairly typical setup for a story of this nature the post-apocalyptic blood sport setup has often been explored in films, including recently. You also get interjecting clips of people from around the world supposedly watching and reacting to the broadcast, as well as interview of the original creator being grilled by a reporter. The island battle is framed through a Kill Stream broadcast, a fictional show complete with an over the top host and a color commentator. They are here to try and win the top prize, which promises money and fame, thus turning their lives around. They behave exactly as you would expect, and the inexperienced actors really ham up their performances for the sake of fulfilling these tropes to their fullest. Each character is a caricature of a trope – the crazy right-wing conspiracy podcaster, a video game streamer, a fashion influencer, a failed movie star, and so on. The title starts off with a bunch of characters getting ready to drop onto an island, where they must fight to be the last person standing. Movie adaptations of video games have a rough track record at best, and Bloodshore is essentially that, a snake eating its own tail - a game presented as a movie, adapting a game.
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