Dark Rift
Dark Rift delivers hyper-active 3D fighting with a sci-fi theme! Compete against eight exotic and powerful characters and two very large bosses. Motion captured character animations enhance the realism. The…
Dark Rift is an arcade developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment, released 8 July 1997 on Nintendo 64 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dark Rift is
Dark Rift is an arcade game developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment and released in 1997. It was published by Vic Tokai. It is available on Nintendo 64 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dark Rift delivers hyper-active 3D fighting with a sci-fi theme! Compete against eight exotic and powerful characters and two very large bosses. Motion captured character animations enhance the realism. The arsenal includes multiple-hit combos, back-crunching grabs, juggles, projectiles, and punishing special moves. Tune into individual character stereo sound tracking. Fight in Tournament, 2-Player or Training modes.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Dark Rift holds a critic score of 54 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Dark Rift launched on 8 July 1997, within three weeks of Disney's Hercules Action Game and Lula: The Sexy Empire. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Disney's Hercules Action Game, Lula: The Sexy Empire.
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