Catfish_82 screen01.png Catfish_82 gives his impressions on Primal Rage 3|008-PrimalRageLARiot.png 1|**The following minutes were smuggled from a top secret meeting within the Bitmasters TM headquarters. The messenger was shot upon delivery.** 16|Bigwig: Gentlemen, due to the success of Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat, I propose that we too shall make a fighting game.|Yesmen: What a brilliant idea! You'll surely go down in history as a timeless visionary.|Independent Thinker: But hasn't the fighter genre been pretty well covered?|Bigwig: You're Fired! As for the rest of you, here's my idea. We'll rip off Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, but we'll do it with animals. No, better yet, we'll do it with mutant dinosaurs and monkeys seeking to conquer a futuristic Earth.|Yesmen: Break out into cheers and whistles. 1|**End Minutes** 1|Surprisingly, I actually like this game, enough to go out and buy it from a Funcoland for ten bucks. But here's what I thought of it. 8|7/10 1|Nothing razzle-dazzle here, they get the job done and that's it. 6|9/10 1|The graphics were actually pretty good. Although in my view it's poor compared to the glory that was the arcade game. But nonetheless decent. The backgrounds were well rendered, and graphically rich. A truly innovative feature that this game has is the human worshippers (groupies if you will) that follow your character around, sit on the sideline cheering him on, and occasionally getting caught up in the action. You can actually eat these guys for energy when they get out into the foreground. 7|Music: 10/10 1|Nothing to gripe about here, the music fit the stages. There's nothing spectacular, but there's nothing blatantly out of place. 7|Sound: 5/10 1|Why couldn't I combine sound and music? Because the sounds of this game deserve an independent section devoted to their evil. I play with nothing but Talon. For those of you who don't know, he's a mutant Velociraptor. However, his victory cry is annoying, it sounds like me trying to start my truck on a cold morning. When he gets hit, he sounds like two tomcats about to fight. The other characters aren't as annoying, but again there's nothing spectacular. 4|011-PrimalRageYouCantFly.png 1|Characters: 10/10 1|The characters look great. Plain and simple, I could bore you with what particular dinosaur/ape was the model for each character, but I won't. All I'll say is that now paleontologists actually think raptors had that little ‘mane' that Talon sports. The characters names and attacks are nothing spectacular. You don't go “oh wow, this is visionary stuff here.” And you don't go “what were the developer's smoking?” (Ok, maybe you do look at Chaos and think that. Anybody who attacks with BO gets my thumbs down.) 9|8.2/10