BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is a fighting game developed by Arc System Works in 2008 and is the first game in the BlazBlue series. The game was originally developed for Japanese arcades and later received…
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is an arcade developed by Arc System Works, released 19 November 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is an arcade game developed by Arc System Works and released in 2008. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is a 2D fighting game developed by Arc System Works. Its name is a combination of the words "blaze" and "blue" when the title is rendered in rōmaji, and of the words "brave" and "blue" when rendered in katakana. As Japanese people usually follow the katakana rendering, the Japanese pronunciation is made similar to the word "bray", entirely omitting the "z" sound. The game was released for the arcade in 2008, and for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2009, and Microsoft Windows in 2010. A port for the PlayStation Portable, titled BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Portable, was also released in 2010. It is the first game of the main series.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the BlazBlue series
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is the first of 11 entries we hold in the BlazBlue series. The next entry was BlazBlue: Continuum Shift in 2009. Its critic score of 73 is almost exactly the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is BlazBlue: Entropy Effect X at 88.
How it was received
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 58 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2 Duo, 2 GB RAM and nVidia Geforce 7900 / AMD Radeon X1900. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger launched on 19 November 2008, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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