War Gods

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Midway took the Mortal Kombat formula into three dimensions with War Gods before Mortal Kombat 4 ever reached arcades, and the result is a fascinating snapshot of mid-'90s fighting games reaching for the next big thing. The premise is pure late-night B-movie: billions of years ago an alien ship crashed into the young Earth and scattered a life-giving Ore across its molten surface, and ten humans from across history who came into contact with it became super-evolved warriors.

To bring them to life, Midway used motion capture and a “digital skin” technique that mapped digitized photos of real actors onto 3D models, giving the cast the same photographic grit that made Mortal Kombat's fighters so striking on a 1990s screen. The lineup is a pulp-comic mash-up of eras and mythologies, with Warhead, Anubis, Kabuki Jo, Voodoo and Pagan among them, and the final battles pit you against Grox and Exor, the aliens hunting the War Gods from their spaceship.

The controls will feel instantly familiar to Mortal Kombat players, with high and low punches and kicks, but the Run button is replaced by a 3D button that sidesteps into the background or foreground and opens up attacks from new angles. Every fighter has a teleport for closing distance, button-sequence combos up to ten hits, an uppercut that launches opponents high into the sky, a ring-out move, and of course a Fatality apiece.

Critics were rough on it, and the N64 version was even delayed so its difficulty could be toned down, though reviewers did credit the port with faster gameplay and fairer bosses than the arcade original. That history is exactly what makes it interesting now. War Gods is a time capsule from the moment digitized-actor fighters collided with polygons, and on the N64 it sits alongside Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Killer Instinct Gold in the console's wild early fighting lineup. For Midway collectors, it is the missing link between Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat 4.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1995
Publisher
GT Interactive Software
Developer
Midway Games
Players
Single player, Split screen
About the game

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.

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