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Before there were humans, gods walked the earth. They embodied the essence of Hunger, Survival, Life, Death, Insanity, Decay, Good
[[Apocalypse How|Now, the impact of a huge meteor strikes the Earth]]. Its destructive force wipes out civilization, rearranges the continents, and frees the imprisoned gods. Get ready to rumble...
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Playable characters:
* Blizzard - The God of Good and leader of the Virtuous Beasts, Blizzard is an ape with icy elemental powers who wishes to return Urth to its natural state, even if it involves killing every Destructive Beast in the process. He lives on the Cliff, an icy temple in what was once the Himalayas.
* Sauron - The God of Hunger and [[Anti
* Talon - The God of Survival and a Virtuous Beast, Talon is the chief of a raptor tribe and is highly protective of it. He fights to maintain their safety and intends to make the world a paradise for raptors where [[To Serve Man|humans are kept as cattle and hunted for sport]]. He lives in a lightly forested tropical grassland called the Strip.
* Armadon - The God of Life, a Virtuous Beast, and [[
* Diablo - The God of Evil and leader of the Destructive Beasts, [[Omnicidal Maniac|he intends to conquer the planet and cause pain and torment to all of those who inhabit on it]]. He lives in a [[Lethal Lava Land]] called the Inferno.
* Chaos - The God of Decay and a Destructive Beast, Chaos is a witch doctor who attempted to turn himself into Blizzard. The spell didn't work quite right and he was turned into a disgusting beast and was forced to live in his own filth for eons. He wishes to defeat his enemies and restore his former greatness. He lives in the Ruins, the remains of a long destroyed city.
* Vertigo - The Goddess of Insanity and one of the Destructive Beasts, Vertigo is a sorceress from another dimension who was [[Sealed Evil in
This [[Fighting Game]] is a little unusual in that there's no boss character to smack around. There was a planned upgrade that would've given the game a boss to defeat to beat the game but that went unreleased by Atari Games. There was also a planned sequel that too went unreleased due to being too many [[Fighting Game|Fighting Games]] at the time.
There was also a novel based on the game, ''Primal Rage: The Avatars''. Although not literature of exceptional quality, it is noteworthy in that it expanded the backstories of the Gods, and introduced two characters that would have been in the sequel; Slashfang the sabertooth tiger, and Necronus/Necrosan
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* [[After the End]]: The story is set in a future in which modern civilization is wiped out by a meteor, and everyone who has survived is sent back to the Stone Age.
* [[Anti
▲* [[An Ice Person|An Ice]] [[Everythings Better With Monkeys|Ape]]: Blizzard
** Note that the
▲* [[Anti Hero]]: Both Blizzard and Armadon are Type IV, while Talon could been seen as either type IV or V and Sauron is type V AT BEST. As noted above, Sauron and Talon are real jackasses for "Virtuous Beasts", wanting to eat everyone and wanting to enslave all humans for cattle, respectively. Sauron in particular has the most disturbing ending screen in the game.
▲** Note that the seperating of the dino gods into the "Virtuous Beats" an "Destructive Dinos" was created purely for the toyline and has no bearing to the video game storyline, which explains both Sauron's and Talon's douchebaggery.
** It should also be noted that these are essentially [[Kaiju]]. The "heroic" once are more concerned with protecting their territory and facing off against earth-destroying evils than they are with something that is little more than food to them.
* [[Anti
** According to the novel, while both Talon and Sauron do horrible things to their followers (
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]:
* [[Boss Rush]]: This takes place instead of a [[Final Boss]] battle, which was planned, but cut.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: At the last minute, Chaos' [[Urine Trouble]] [[Finishing Move]] was taken out of the Super Nintendo port of the game. Performing it in that version will result in Chaos merely performing his victory pose while a red circle with a line through it flashes.
** In some versions of the game, one human victim (whose brains have spilled out) is blurred in Sauron's ending screen.
* [[Breath Weapon]]: Diablo's [[Playing
* [[Crapsack World]]: It's a bad time to be a human in Urth. Blizzard and Armadon are the only Dino Gods who have even the slightest consideration for humans, and Blizzard's attempts to get the Gods to stop being dickbags is ignored in the novels, while Armadon wants to sleep.
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: Unlike in most other fighters, the special moves are instead performed by holding down the buttons and then inputting the directions, instead of the other way around. You can still perform them the normal way in some versions of the game, but seeing that all of them require you to hit at least 2 attack buttons at the same time, it's not really worth the trouble. Try doing this with the fighters in ''[[MUGEN]]'', where you now need to input the commands at the same time, ''[[Street Fighter]]''-style.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]
* [[Digitized Sprites]]
* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]
** When selecting Sauron, you can choose [
* [[
* [[Fantasy World Map]]: The meteor rearranged the continents to look like a ''Tyrannosaurus'' skull.
* [[Fartillery]]: Trope picture. One of Chaos' moves is the [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Talon.
* [[
* [[Gorn]]: As if the gameplay hadn't had enough of this, the energy bars are veins connected to a heart at the end, and the special bar below is a nerve linked to a brain. Winning a match causes the loser's heart to explode and the brain to melt into ashes. There's also the fatalities.
** In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYypXCmPmdM&feature=related the intro screens], Talon is being interrupted by Vertigo while feeding on Chaos' carcass, complete with torn-open chest and visible ribs.
** Speaking of Talon, his Shredder Fatality became even ''gorier'' with updates. In prior versions, the victim did the stock animation collapse in a fountain of blood. Version 2.3 left the victim standing, but lifeless, skinned and with ''lots'' of skeleton exposed.
* [[Jerkass Gods]]: All of them to some degree.
* [[Kaiju]]
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Sauron and Armadon. Armadon, at least, can fire projectiles, and Sauron has AOE attacks.
* [[Mix
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Perform enough hits and damage with a single combo, and your followers will celebrate by streaking.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The main characters are named Diablo, Talon, Vertigo, Sauron, Blizzard, Armadon
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]
* [[Palette Swap]]: Chaos and Diablo are smaller, redder versions of Blizzard and Sauron, respectively.
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* [[Prehistoria]]: It's more like Posthistoria, but they were fighting Prehistoria.
* [[Puny Earthlings|Puny Humans]]
* [[Recycled in Space]]: It's ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' <small>WITH [[
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Slashfang got the treatment in the novel. He was always there, but he stayed in the Savannas he called home until the other dino gods discovered and invaded them, causing him to join the war.
** Talon occasionally does this to his chosen avatar.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Almost everything in this game would be insanely stupid if it wasn't also insanely ''awesome''.
* [[Rules of the Road]]: The game has a "No Cheese" sign (a wedge of Swiss cheese with a red bar through it) which flashes whenever a player tries a "cheesy" fighting tactic, such as throwing another while they're stunned from blocking, or using two stun techniques in the same combo.
* [[Shock and Awe]]:
* [[Shrink Ray]]: One of Vertigo's fatalities involves her shrinking the opponent and eating them.
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Vertigo. Averted in the novel.
* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: Talon is a ''Deinonychus'' ([[Vindicated
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Vertigo can turn the opponent to stone and shatter them for one of her fatalities.
* [[To Serve Man]]: The gods ''eat'' their
** They all do this before the [[Boss Rush]].
* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]: Sauron and Diablo.▼
▲* [[Flawless Victory|TOTAL DOMINATION!]]
▲* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]: Sauron and Diablo
* [[Urine Trouble]]: Chaos' "Golden Shower" [[Finishing Move|fatality]].
* [[What Measure Is a Non
▲* [[What Measure Is a Non Human|What Measure Is A Human]]: Even Blizzard, the nicest of the Virtuous Beasts, isn't above chowing down on his followers, and Talon, as mentioned, considers humans to be cattle.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Vertigo uses her tail as a whip-like weapon.
* [[World of Badass]]: You'll probably end up dying, especially if you're a human. On the plus side, it may well be the coolest death imaginable!
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