The Bouncer

The Bouncer is a 2000 beat 'em up video game for the Playstation 2 co-developed by SquareSoft and DreamFactory. The game tells the story of three bouncers in the fictional city of EDGE on a rescue mission to save their young friend from the Mikado Group, a solar technology megacorporation owned by the megalomaniacal Dauragon C. As the player blocks, the amount of guard points diminish. With the Active Character Selection system, when a cutscene concludes, the player is given the choice to control one of the three protagonists and proceed onto the next gameplay segment. The player then controls this character for the duration of the level, whilst the other two characters are controlled by the AI. In some instances, the player will also be tasked with activities other than fighting, such as running through a series of hallways to avoid being caught in a flood, finding a keycard, or fooling enemies into thinking the player is one of them. Spanning ten stages and fifty enemies, every time the player survives a round, the gameplay gets progressively harder.