War Gods (1995) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

War Gods

Billions of years ago, a Being from a distant galaxy was transporting a precious cargo of life giving Ore. The turbulent formation of our solar system caused his ship to crash, scattering Ore over the molten…

42 1 December 1995

What War Gods is

War Gods is an arcade game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and released in 1995. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Billions of years ago, a Being from a distant galaxy was transporting a precious cargo of life giving Ore. The turbulent formation of our solar system caused his ship to crash, scattering Ore over the molten surface of Planet Earth. Through the millennia, Ten Humans came into contact with the Ore and were transformed into super-evolved warriors. These are the WarGods.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

War Gods holds a critic score of 42 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 24 points below the year average.

What it launched against

War Gods launched on 1 December 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Rayman. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Rayman.

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