Blood is a classic and the release of this updated version was possibly the best videogame-related news I had recently. Fresh Blood brings back (a really close version of) the original Blood's gameplay, updated with some nifty features (e.g. support for hi-res 1920x1080 resolution) that make it much easier to enjoy the game on modern computers. Running the game on Win10 here and so far I did not run into any nasty bug, just a random crash that occurred during setup of the controls. Other than that, I noticed an issue if playing with CD music (actually a .ogg version of the original CD audio tracks), since the music does not seem to loop when playing and it will not restart if restarting a level (e.g. upon dying). I seem to remember the original Blood had a similar issue, but I could be wrong. In any event, I always preferred the game's MIDI music, so this is a non issue to me. BTW, for MIDI playback Fresh Blood relies on the Fluidsynth synthesizer and comes equipped with a standard 6 Mb soundfont (.sf2). It is actually possible to use a different (higher quality) soundfont .sf2 file, just drop the new .sf2 file in the game directory, then navigate to your "\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Nightdive Studios\Blood EX" folder, open the kexengine.cfg file in Notepad or similar, look for the line "seta snd_soundfontfile" and replace the name of the sounfont file with that of your new soundfont. All in all, I'd recommend this version of Blood to old fans of the game and newcomers who wish to give this classic a try.
