I still remember the 1st time I played Primal Rage! It has all the
excitement that I had admired, the wonderful graphics, and great characters. I then heard that Time Warner Interactive was going to convert it for over 10 different platforms, I thought was that was GREAT! Primal Rage
was on its way to the PC and I to heaven! After 14 months of anticipation,
the PC version of Primal Rage finally hit the stores in early September
for my greatest pleasure and other beat 'em up fans.
The action of Primal Rage takes place in a shattered world caused by the collision between a gigantic asteroid and Earth. This catastrophe left only few survivors and released seven dinosaur-like gods from the bowels of the Earth where they were trapped for millions of years in suspended life. The world is now divided in seven large territories and your goal is to conquer all the territories to gain world domination through bloody battles and raging fights.
The home version of Primal Rage features three new types of
gameplay. The training mode will allow you to practise with
another monster of your choice; the Tug of War is a mode
where there is only one health bar for the two players with
the health balancing from the weakest to the strongest.
Finally the endurance mode lets you choose four characters
with whom you will fight to the death.
As in the Mortal Kombat games, Primal Rage features digitized graphics for the characters that were taken from hand-painted latex puppets with real hair and fur for an amazing visual effect. It is also the first time that a video game uses true stop-motion animation, and this combined to the quality of the graphics makes Primal Rage simply unique. As each of the puppets were built from a steel skeleton with joints allowing hundreds of different positions to be filmed, the number of actions is amazing. There are over 70 actions per character, including fighting moves, special moves, fatalities, combos and ready poses.
The game allows one or two players as in other fighting
games. In the first mode, you have to eliminate seven
adversaries to reach the Bonus Round and the Final Battle.
During the fights, whenever your health bar is being reduced
by a hit, eating a human follower will give you a health
bonus. When you defeat an opponent, you will be rewarded
with a new territory. The Bonus Round is just to collect
additional points and bonus health to prepare you for the
final battle in which you meet all your adversaries again that
have came back to life. The only difficulty is that you only
have one health bar during the final battle.
In the two player mode, the goal is to dominate the world by capturing the most lands and to gather the most human followers. These humans will be awarded each time you achieve various combinations such as finishing moves, damages inflicted, etc...
