Customer Reviews

Primal Rage

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Talk about an incredibly fun game with unlimited eye candy and incredible realism. I am not one of those "Jurassic Park" buffs, but this game seemed so fresh after I played it multiple hours a week for the past five years. IT JUST DOESN'T GET OLD! A real, true, blue classic. The dinosaurs appear so fascinating and move so quickly and smoothly, and the challenge isn't that bad. The gore in "Primal Rage" is enjoyable: it relives the environment more than just the violent blood. What a great game.

This is a Mortal Kombat clone, with huge amounts of blood, and two fatalities for each competitor. The only difference with this game is that all of the fighters are pre-historic! Two apes, a big dinosaur, a fire breathing legendary dinosaur, a raptor and much more. The gameplay is much like Street Fighter 2, and the gameplay is very slow, because you are fighting as dinosaurs! Another interesting feature is that for those who like to use the same move over and over again, the game laughs at you. Pretty cheap game, rent it before you buy it.

Story: This game actually has a story to it. A fighting game with a story, who knew. The story is: A meteor struck the Earth, and caused great chaos. Seven gods from ancient times awoke, and are now attempting to take control of the post-apocalyptic world. These seven gods are giant dinosaurs and apes which is pretty cool. Now, as one of these crazy blood thirsty monsters, you are set out to conquer the Earth. The story is pretty good in my opinion.

Gameplay: This fighting game is unlike any other fighting game you'll ever play. I say that because you get to fight as dinosaurs and giant apes, how cool is that ? In this game you play as one of seven dinossaurs/apes (five dinosaurs and 2 apes to be exact). You can either play as Diablo, a hellish looking T-rex, Blizzard, a cold blooded killer ape, Sauron, a crazy telepathic T-rex, Talon, a crazy fast and deadly raptor, Vertigo, the poisonous long necked dino, Chaos, a crazy King kong like ape, and Armadon, a vicious crazy triceratops. Well, just like any other fighting game you got your basic moves like you got your high and low attacks. But, instead of punching and kicking like humans do, in Primal Rage you get to tail whip, bite, slash with your claws, and kick slash with your claws too. Mixing some of those moves up add up to some deadly combos. If you do these fast enough you can make your enemy brain dead for a couple of seconds which means they can't move and it's your chance to get more attacks on your opponent which is very helpful. Each character has there own special moves like Blizzard has his Ice breath attack, and Chaos with his weird fart bubble attack which is weird but cool, Sauron has his telekinetic force field, Diablo has his fireball attack which is pretty rad and those are just some of the cool special moves you can pull off. After you have beaten your opponent in two rounds, you can choose to humilliate them by performing a finishing move on them. (like a fatality on mortal kombat). For example, Sauron's Crusher, he just jumps really high in the air and then he just stomps on corpse and turns it into mushy guts. It's a pretty awesome finishing move. Primal Rage has a 2-player versus mode which is pretty fun to whoop your friends at.

Graphics: The graphics look great with it's awesome looking levels like Diablo's level that has the raging volcano is nice to look at as is Armadon's cave level which looks too cool. The dinosaurs/apes themselves just look fantastic. Blood spraying out of your opponent and yourself is just plain brutal and awesome to look at as is watching your opponents heart explode when you just beaten him.

Sound: The music in the game is interesting with its tribal tunes. The roar and yelps of the dinos/apes sound outstanding.

Replay Value: This is one of those fighters that you come back to in like a week or so. The 2-player versus mode well definetly bring you back as well as the single player. All in all it's a great fighting game that should be played from time to time.

I remember the first time I played Primal Rage it came off as a clone of Mortal Kombat since that was the grand dadddy of all fighting games at the time and huge. You play as a group of dinosaurs that are about to get wiped off the face of the earth by a metor that is about to hit planet earth ending all life you know. You battle it out as either Blizard/Chaos(Ape), Diablo/Sauron(T-rex), Vertigo(serpant snake vodoo lizard), Armadon(spinosarus), or Talon(raptor). Each dinosaru has special moves and finishing moves like Mortal Kombat where they can perform Fatalities on your opponents. Its a fun game that lets you chose your animal and take out your anger on other animals.

This was far better than the genisis mess version but the controls are still too complicated and the gameplay sucks.

Great game, brings back good memories! Highly recommended, shipped quickly and arrived in great condition!

Primal Rage, for what it was worth wasn't that bad of a game. But in the same respect, it wasn't as good either. The graphics were excellent. Not sloppy, very clean, it looked similar to the Arcade hit and all out, they did a good job with how the game looked. If you are a person that needs the visuals of a game to come out, this was for you.

Now for those who didn't enjoy this game on the home version, this might be why, Although stunning in graphics, it lacked the originality in the gameplay. This game followed or should I say, held on by the coat tails of the success of Mortal Kombat. Now, there's nothing wrong with trying to achieve the success that Mortal Kombat had. Heck, at the time when this game came out, Mortal Kombat was one of the platforms for Great Fighting Games.

However this game could not cut it on the home system. Why?

One, the controls. The controls were already confusing in the Arcade. What made it worse for the home system was that to unleash certain combos you either had to be quicker than Billy "the Kid" or you had to hold the controller like a geek (left hand the correct way and the right hand off, pressing the buttons with your thumb, index and middle fingers). ... And the fact that if you were holding any of the buttons trying to do a special move, you couldn't do anything but stand still and get hit.

Now what's fun about getting beat down? Nothing.

The other thing that bothered me about this game was that all of the fights were way too predictable. For instance, primate Blizzard, his standard set of offense as the Computer (on any level mind you) was, Freeze (preferrably in the air), unleash 9 - 12 hit combo and repeat. Very boring and once you statred to realize that, the game's replay value went from fair to low. Not good.

This is another classic game that you could leave off your list to collect but at the same time, it's not that bad to have around once you get good at it.

(...) Primal rage is a game about seven dino-gods who are set free from their prisons when a disaster strikes "Urth" in the near future. The player's goal is to defeat the other dino-gods, conquer their lands, gain the most number of worshippers and end up ruling the new urth. The concept sounds okay, but the game which follows the story is not really.

When you turn on the game and arrive at the title screen, you may think the background bird sounds are cool. But go to the player select screen and from there it's all downhill. The sound and music quality is more like that of a Sega Genesis game. Then there are weird scratching noises at times, and a horrible "continue screen" music that will make you drop the controller and run for an asprin! The graphics are slightly easier to handle. The seven monsters are reasonable, especially the t-rex duo Sauron and Diablo. Sometimes however you may find yourself trying to identify which is the head and tail in the middle of the action. The backgroung visuals are also decent. But the fatalities...are terrible. They are nowhere near the quality of Mortal Kombat. It's hard to actually figure out what they are doing in some.

Then there are the special moves. Some of them are okay (like Diablo's "hot foot"), and some of them are not (like Chaos's "farts" and "puke"). Talk about weirdness. The character Vertigo is ridiculous. A dinosaur with the head of a cobra and the tail of a scorpion? Some special moves are hard to identify as what they're supposed to be. The controls aren't quite what you'd want. The characters are poor at jumping, and even slow and clumsy on ground. It's sometimes hard to identify if the move they are performing is a special move or just a normal one. Oh, I said something of the sort above, didn't I?

So if you want a Genesis quality game for your SNES (you're nuts), then you can buy this. But what's the point? The SNES has much more eye-candy and easier to control fighting games out there. This is one of the least appealing SNES fighting games I've played. If you want some mindless button-mashing with no real depth and unrealistic amounts of gore, this game is for you. Incase you don't realise the difference in quality right away, play this first and then play Street Fighter II Turbo, Mortal Kombat or even TMNT: Tournament Fighters. You soon will.

I am a huge fan of the arcade game Primal Rage, although I actually got the SNES game first. Primal Rage is a great game, where seven dino-gods battle for the new Urth. Personally, I love Talon.

The only bad part of this game is the graphics. In this category, the arcade version scores 10 times higher. I thought the graphics were much better in the arcade version, but kinda sucky in the SNES version.

Besides the graphics, though, Primal Rage is one of the best fighting games out there, although it lacks the 3-Dish characters in hit games like Tekken.