To do this the player must beat the other 9 fighters, and a clone of the character the player has chosen, before going on to fight the sub-boss, Grox, and the main boss, Exor.

And now, they are fighting each other to possess all the stones and become the ultimate super-warrior. The chunks of ore scatter across the planet, and over the years, ten humans each find a stone of the ore, and are transformed into powerful beings, War Gods. Many, many years ago, a spaceship carrying precious life-giving ore crashes to Earth.

Like the Mortal Kombat games, the game has fatalities that are used to finish off opponents. War Gods also features combos which can be used through series of button presses. Just as in the Mortal Kombat games, players select a character and fight a series of opponents.

To prevent situations where opponents end up on different playing fields for prolonged periods of time, each character has a teleport move which moves them close to their opponent. The 'Run' button was replaced with a '3D' button that, when held down while using other joystick and button combinations, allows the player to perform different attacks/evasions utilizing the background or foreground. The game plays similarly to Mortal Kombat 4, using an almost identical button layout of high/low punches and kicks. War Gods' character design and graphics were criticized by reviewers. War Gods received mixed reviews, with particular criticism being directed at the game's character design and animations. The game's graphics were created using a technology by Midway called 'digital skin', which mapped photographs onto 3D models. Unique to War Gods is the '3D' button, allowing users to use the background/foreground for additional attacks and evasive maneuvers.

The game was heavily influenced by Midway's Mortal Kombat series, and features controls similar to the Mortal Kombat games, as well as the series' signature fatalities. The object of the game is to defeat all the other fighters to become the most powerful warrior on the planet. In the game, players control one of ten fighters who have been given great power by a mysterious ore that crashed-landed on Earth from outer space. Ports for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Windows were released in 1997. War Gods is a fighting video game originally released to arcades by Midway Games in 1996.

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