Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000 video game)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game divided into eight levels, which include a mansion, a cemetery, and the Sunnydale zoo.{{harvnb|Harris|2000}}; {{harvnb|Kris}}; {{harvnb|The Pantagraph|2000|p=B6}}; {{harvnb|THQ|2000}}; {{harvnb|Weiss A}} The player controls Buffy Summers, a Slayer destined to fight vampires, demons, and other supernatural entities.{{sfn|Weiss A}}{{sfn|Weiss B}} Gameplay is focused on one-on-one fights with vampires.{{sfn|Weiss A}} Although vampires are the game's only enemy type, there are six variations: tux, punk, disfigured, tribesman, Euro, and guardian.{{sfn|Weiss B}} 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.{{sfn|Weiss A}} 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.{{sfn|Weiss B}}

Levels do not include any obstacles or traps, and while they incorporate platforming, none of the falls are lethal.{{sfn|Weiss A}} AllGame's Brett Alan Weiss described the jumping mechanic as "super leaps".{{sfn|Weiss B}} The game does not have any collectible items or different weapons.{{sfn|Weiss A}} 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.{{sfn|Weiss A}}{{sfn|Weiss B}} Levels also have power-ups, such as soda cans that provide "super punches and kicks".{{sfn|Weiss B}} Each level ends with a password which functions as the game's save points that allow players to replay the level.{{sfn|Weiss B}}{{sfn|Kris}} While Buffy is the game's only playable character, other Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters appear in cutscenes between levels.{{sfn|Weiss B}}

The game is set in the show's fourth season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.{{sfn|Vincent|2017}}

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was developed by GameBrains and published by THQ.{{sfn|Weiss A}} In March 2000, THQ announced the game as part of a partnership with Fox Interactive.{{sfn|IGN|2000a}} The game discussed in this announcement was set for a 2000 release.{{sfn|Kennedy|2000}} 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.{{sfn|Bloomberg News|2002}} A pre-alpha demo was available at E3 in May 2000,{{sfn|IGN|2000b}} before being released on September 19, 2000, as a Game Boy Color exclusive.{{sfn|THQ|2000}} The game was not backward compatible with the Game Boy.{{sfn|Weiss A}}

{{Video game reviews

| GR = 39%{{sfn|GameRankings}}

| Allgame = {{Rating|1.5|5}}{{sfn|Weiss A}}

| GI = 2/10{{sfn|GameRankings}}

| IGN = 2/10{{sfn|Harris|2000}}

| NP = 6.5/10{{sfn|GameRankings}}

|rev1 = Nintendojo

|rev1Score= 5/10{{sfn|Kris}}

|rev2 = Tampa Bay Times

|rev2Score= D+{{sfn|Guido|2000|p=15E}}

}}

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