Showing posts with label Primal Rage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primal Rage. Show all posts

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Primal Rage- Did it deserve to become a franchise?

Way back in 1994, there were two very big fighting games that were leading the Silver Age of the Video Game Arcade: Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. During this time, fighting games were being released left and right by companies looking to get a slice of that pie. Some games were good, like Virtua Fighter, while others were, well, pure garbage, like Tattooed Assassins. During this year, Atari released a game that did absolutely nothing new of importance, save show how much damage combos did, and allow mini games to occur during a match. And this game was called Primal Rage. Plans were made for a sequel, but it never came to be. Today I ask the question: did the game deserve better than a single title? Did Primal Rage deserve to become a franchise?

Left to Right: Talon, Sauron, Chaos, Armadon, Diablo, Blizzard, Vertigo