Primal Rage
Primal Rage is a one-on-one fighting game featuring dinosaurs and giant apes as the fighters. The graphics are done with digitized stop-motion animation. Gameplay is similar to Mortal Kombat in that it is…
Primal Rage is a fighting developed by Atari Games, released 1 August 1994 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar CD, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What Primal Rage is
Primal Rage is a fighting game developed by Atari Games and released in 1994. It was published by Playtronic. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar CD, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Sega 32X, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Arcade and DOS. It runs on Atari GT.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A massive meteor strike has devastated Earth. Human civilization comes to an end in the ensuing cataclysms and humanity regresses into tribes of Stone Age dwellers. A primordial rainforest covers the land and the continental landmass has shifted into the shape of a fire-breathing dinosaur skull. The planet is now primitively referred to as "Urth" by the survivors of the cataclysms. Seven fearsome creatures emerge from their slumber deep within the Urth's crust, and become worshiped as gods by the humans, who form segregated clans beneath the ones they follow. The beasts themselves are divided between those who wish to keep peace on Urth, and those who attempt to plunge the world into…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Primal Rage series
Primal Rage is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Primal Rage series. The next entry was Primal Rage in 1995.
How it was received
Primal Rage holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1994 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
Official trailer
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