He sees the underground home of Armadon, the triceratops-looking God of Life. Once they’re gone, he converses with the silent Blizzard and checks his all-seeing Eye of the World to get some vision action. He assures the children that everything will be fine, but has them hidden away for the time being to protect them from the war. It’s up to his followers to wage war with opposing tribes while their gods duke it out. Taze says that there’s going to be a big war any day now and both he and Blizzard can feel the storm brewing. He’ll show up later in the comic and I have to say, the take on him is pretty ingenious. The meteor was God’s punishment for what mankind had become and since they continued to bring war after the cataclysm, God awakened the creatures to bring order and keep them in line with the threat of being eaten.Ĭhaos, the one pictured in the bottom right corner, is described in the game as a witch doctor who tried to steal the power of the gods and became the God of Decay for his hubris, cursed to wallow in his own filth until he can destroy the other creatures. It’s his belief that this was God’s judgment, much like with the story of Noah. Inside, we see Blizzard, a blue gorilla and God of Good, sitting on a throne in front of his gathered followers and a couple gorillas.īlizzard’s chief follower Taze tells the children of the story of how the planet (“Urth”) came to its current state. It starts off in an icy mountain where the side resembles that of a gorilla’s skull. Unlike all the other fighting game comics, it actually holds itself down as a fighting game story without losing track of what it’s supposed to be. It’s a good-looking comic that’s refreshing in how straightforward it is. The first issue, released in 1996, has art by Kevin Rasel.
The miniseries goes for four issues and is written by Christopher Knowles. They would all battle for supremacy until one was left standing. The God of Good, the God of Evil, the God of Life, the God of Decay, the God of Hunger, the God of Survival and the Goddess of Madness. Each one is considered a god of some sort. The cataclysm also caused dormant beasts to awaken and battle, with humans worshipping them.
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The people who survived lived on in caves, allowing civilization to degrade and turn itself into a series of violent tribes. Continents shifted back into one major mass of land. A giant meteor crashed into earth, causing a major cataclysm. The story, I’ve discovered, is incredibly metal. The game only had seven characters (using five character models and changing the palette on two of them) and no end boss. I’ve never been a big fan of the game and despite the excellent animation, you can see why it never truly took off. Giant dinosaurs and gorillas created with stop-motion animation duel over their domains. The basic premise of the game is King Kong vs. Primal Rage is based on the vicious Atari-released fighter from the mid-90’s. Today, I’m going to discuss Sirius Comics’ Primal Rage. I’ve covered the Killer Instinct comic series before and Eternal Champions will be covered in due time. They all had just enough play in the 90’s to receive their own comic books. You don’t see any modern-day incarnations of those three non-Kombat games despite the way someone my age might light up and say, “Fulgore was the shit!” when the game is namedropped. People remember them, but they’re all series that tried to last longer and collapsed before they could for various reasons. Killer Instinct, Primal Rage and Eternal Champions are all interesting in how they almost became big deals. Yet with the blood-based fighters, there were some who didn’t fall into obscurity without a fight. Many are long forgotten, whether they deserve to be or not (you’re still awesome, Kizuna Encounter!). There were a lot of derivatives of the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat games throughout the 90’s, back when they were cheaper and easier to do than now.
To go with the upcoming Mortal Kombat game, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the more popular clones.
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