EA strangled the game just before its release, which did not stop the developers – who, not without reason, were offended by their publishers – from releasing the project into the world, albeit in the form of a free beta (almost the final product). And so I tried the game and I hasten to share everything I can so that:
A) To warm up your interest in her.
B) Save you from it so that you don’t even think about: How nice it would be to play an extremely violent fighting game?

The plot, as usual, is an attempt to explain why, and in the name of what, someone suddenly wanted to disembowel and kill. Tournament again. Marruka – the Goddess of Mysteries who decided to give the souls rotten in hell a chance to fight and emerge from the battle not only as a winner, but also as a representative of the world of the living.

The fighters are maniacs, sadists, rapists and madmen. Quite a colorful company, you can’t argue with that. And the difference between them all is felt. In general, for the future: the main thing in a fighting game has always been and will be: characters. Then comes, obviously, gameplay, music, style, etc.d.
Below is a complete list of fighters with detailed biography:

Name: Belladonna Mary Cocherto
Nickname: Belladonna
Profession: housewife, librarian and part-time mistress
Age: 23
Cause of death: “accidental” death by electrocution while taking a bath
Hobbies: reading, baking, spanking
Criminal record: none (suspicious circumstances surrounding her husband’s death)
Place of birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Favorite food: chocolate chip cookies, cashew nuts
Belladonna – the embodiment of the “femme fatale”. She is charming and exotic, but deadly – as a reminder of this, the shocker and the body packed in latex testify. Don’t let the maid uniform fool you – Belladonna doesn’t serve anyone. Even to be near her is to tempt death; There’s nothing she enjoys more than hitting a potential suitor in the groin with a six-inch stiletto. Formerly a prim, proper wife and librarian, she changed her interests for the worse after she discovered her husband had cheated on her with her sister. No one survived her wrath.

Name: William J. Whitefield
Nickname: “The Tormentor”
Profession: District Judge
Age: 51
Cause of death: sentenced to death by electric chair
Hobby: burning out ants with a magnifying glass
Criminal record: 2 premeditated murders, suspicion of another 52
Place of birth: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Favorite food: cheeseburgers, bacon, mayonnaise
Judge and executioner rolled into one, Tormentor is a medieval nightmare wrapped in leather and chains. Born to bring the ultimate pain and suffering, Tormentor believes he is an angel of mercy sent to cleanse the souls of the wicked. In every case, his victims are guilty and the verdict is always death. In life, Tormentor spent years sitting on the bench as a judge, deliberately exonerating notorious criminals so that he could put them in his personal torture chamber and serve out the kind of punishment he believed they deserved.

Name: Violet Beauregard
Nickname: “Violet”
Profession: circus performer (acrobat)
Age: 19
Cause of death: spinal cord rupture
Hobbies: dancing, aerobics
Criminal record: manslaughter
Place of birth: Tomia, Austria
Favorite food: pretzels
Violet, a traveling circus acrobat, is the embodiment of madness – she bends her own body in any way she wants to match the same twisted reality of Hell. She is more than a moving skeleton – a resourceful and ruthless opponent, capable of getting out of any situation. Like a slender, venomous snake, she is fast, agile and deadly to anyone who gets in her way. Her hatred of men began with an attack in the locker room after one of her performances.

Name: Clitus T. Radley
Nickname: “Cleetus”
Profession: hunter
Age: n/a
Cause of death: tapeworm infestation
Hobbies: hunting, barbecue
Criminal record: animal cruelty
Place of Birth: Somewhere in Kentucky
Favorite food: people
If you want to be not only killed, but also eaten, Clytus is the one for you. His craving for pain and suffering has elevated him to a new place in the food chain. Instead of inflicting normal wounds on his opponents, he prefers to devour them. He is a big glutton when it comes to fresh meat; and the fresher the better. No one has yet been able to escape from his appetite, with the exception of the one who lost only one leg, which Cletus always carries with him, believing that it will bring him good luck.

Name: Raymond Raistak
Nickname: “Oddball”
Occupation: Serial killer profiler, FBI
Age: 31
Cause of Death: Shot by his protégé after a long investigation into the mysterious murders of the “Oddball”
Hobbies: chess, wiring circuits in the basement
Criminal record: no
Place of birth: Belfast, Maine, USA
Favorite food: tranquilizers (not by choice)
Raymond Raistak had a noble start to his FBI career. Years of tracking serial killers cost Raymond dearly – he crossed the line and began to admire these “predators” he was supposed to track down. Behind the wild eyes of this crazy resident of Hell lies the embodiment of insanity and brutal anger. Like most sociopaths, he is extremely intelligent, cunning, and unrepentant. Pity, sympathy and compassion have no meaning for him. Although his hands are securely secured in a straitjacket, he adapted to the new conditions, like any other predator.

Name: Franklin Peppermint
Nickname: “Mammoth”
Profession: postal worker
Age: 26
Cause of death: shot himself
Hobbies: listening to light jazz
Criminal record: no
Place of birth: Covington, Indiana, USA
Favorite food: potato dumplings
The pure embodiment of primitive rage and cruelty, Mammoth is the nightmare that embodies it all. Due to his gigantic size and strength, he is capable of turning a person into a bloody cutlet or breaking a spine with one snap of his finger. But inside this beast lies a furious soul, drowning in torment and the loss of its humanity. After he was fired from his local postal office, he became uncontrollable and took it out on former clients and co-workers.

Name: Billy B. Tattu
Nickname: “The Imp”
Profession: government worker
Age: 39
Cause of death: complications from using experimental prosthetic legs after amputation of his own
Hobbies: singing in a church choir
Criminal record: no
Place of Birth: Albany, New York
Favorite food: caviar
Bad things can fit small, as evidenced by the three-foot terror that is Imp. His short stature is the most painful point that makes him suffer from a Napoleon complex. To somehow meet his personal standards, he made simple stilts and tied them to his feet. Bitter and lonely, Imp thinks only of hurting others who dare look down on him.

Name: Doc. Gabriel Faustus
Nickname: https://nongamstopcasinosites.co.uk/review/slots-amigo/ “Dr. Faustus”
Profession: plastic surgeon
Age: 37
Cause of death: infection from placing a modified bear trap on one’s own face
Hobbies: dissecting small animals
Criminal record: Charged with 27 counts of abuse of power, but not convicted
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Favorite food: snails
Doctor Fostus is no ordinary doctor, but a depraved combination of a bloodthirsty villain and surgical steel. His medical skills allow him to gracefully remove vital organs with a single swipe of a scalpel or rip his victims to pieces like a rabid pit bull. As Hell’s surgeon, Dr. Faustus loves his job and his overly fanatical nature often causes him to lose all restraint during
“process”. After a not-so-successful operation to replace his lower jaw with a bear trap, he decided that his vision of beauty should not be left to him alone. His victims thought differently.

There are also 2 sub-bosses in the game:

They all have no background. Like the main boss of the game:

The gameplay tries to bring something new to the genre. Fights with the participation of 4 fighters are not new, but the system itself, in which there is no life bar, but only a rage scale that is filled due to damage caused to the enemy, adds interest to the gameplay.
Example:

The music in the game is wild (the kind you could hear in sadistic clubs in some video games or even VmB). Actually, the band that sounds in the game is not the hukhry-mukhry, but Contagion.
Example:

But the stumbling block is obvious. EA decided to throw out the game for a reason (although its tactlessness, alas, cannot be justified). The gameplay quickly gets boring, and fatalities and strikes are monotonous and must be performed. The locations are sparse in detail and, in fact, are boxes in which the feeling of enclosure certainly adds to the madness of the game, which itself is synonymous with madness, but cannot in any way remove the feeling of boredom from the player.

K.O.: My opponent (represented by this fighting game) fell unconscious. The fight turned out to be interesting, but I don’t intend to continue it (reach the second round). Let him try to get back on his feet first, and then we’ll talk.
An unusual fighting game, extremely bloody and experiencing clinical death. You can have fun with friends. I also allow you to look at fatalities and freaks. Overall good for fun. It would be better, of course, if it were released officially (even if I think that it is, indeed, a little damp in places).

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Yes, I completely forgot to mention that. Thanks for your feedback)
And, I apologize for the flood, but if my article was downvoted there, all the pictures should disappear? This will greatly prevent me from further informing and telling about other cool fighting games from my childhood.

And my friend had a disk with this thing. Custom fight, two of us and a couple of AI. There were good times. By the way, you forgot to mention the hellish voice acting of the Persians (screams, groans, clatter of Imp’s prostheses. ) and how tasty the local fatalities were, and the fact that the charge of rage was one-time only and could be fucked up because of the timer, and so on. But the good thing is that at least someone remembers this game.

Yes, for PS1 this is a very convenient solution. Better than a JPEG picture as a backdrop that spins after the Persians. This kind of thing SLIGHTLY smacks of hack work.

And by the way, you can post more screenshots of the fighters? I remember that they were all such scumbags.)

I would correct it, but for now the problem with the rating is that I’m afraid that after the correction the pictures will disappear.
As for the arenas, well, to each his own. I personally played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the part where the battles are in similar boxed arenas) and Killing Zone, so on the one hand I understand the idea, but on the other hand they seem to be following me and this prevents me from loving them)

I remember how, when I was 10 or 12 years old, I played it literally for days in a computer club with money from school lunches. (= Then the game was terribly addictive and bloody. One of the few games (I haven’t heard of them even now) where you are forced to fight three enemies in a “Battle Royale” in a small room, where no one has allies – where it’s every man for himself. And all this is in 3D, not on a plane. And even now it’s probably not boring – especially with friends.

The characters are very original and charismatic in their own way – like a guy on stilts or a guy in a straitjacket whose hands are tied behind his back and who is forced to fight without them? Or a doctor with a scalpel, which he wields faster than the eye can see? Or the same huge gorilla-like monster? I liked playing him the most because it seemed to me that he was monstrously strong – also Tormenter, who has chains and a fiery skeleton because he’s probably cool. And you didn’t have to memorize anything – you just accidentally hit all 4 buttons on the joystick and that’s it. Played through the campaign multiple times.

It’s in vain that the author of the article only provides art – they don’t quite accurately reflect how the characters look and act in the game.

Yes, one of my first articles (there are errors). I actually haven’t written much here. It cost more, but I think it at least reminded many of such a cool game.
It’s a pity that no one noticed the article on The Black Heart. For me, the game is filled with something of the same atmosphere. But nostalgia works better. Nostalgia conquers everything.

Cool.
The music is nice, I’ll have to listen to the band.

I like the idea of ​​a fighting cage. The cube is easy to process, the polygons are one-sided, there are no problems with visibility.

You can do this too. Always welcome suggestions. I wanted to disassemble the fighting game “Expect no mercy”, but it doesn’t work for me (no matter how hard I try).

By the way, there is almost the same crazy fighting game called Time Slaughter. How about we take it apart, piece by piece??
www.old-games.ru/game/1311.html

The graphics are a bit weird for a project like this. Maybe the engine is old, but here, for example, even on Unity3D it comes out more realistic and natural. So the flaw and hackwork on the part of the developers is obvious.