A Winner Is You: Despite each character having a specific backstory, everyone shares the same generic ending of possessing the Ore and bringing peace back to the world, regardless of their heroic or villainous alignment.For the unrelated, yet successful Sony franchise, see God of War. Despite being debunked by Midway Chicago's Ed Boon since release, it was confirmed by co-project lead George Petro that War Gods was indeed an isolated production that didn't even run on MK-related hardware, but rather, the graphics engine of Cruis'n USA.įor the book series, see The War Gods. The game did not make much waves critically or commercially upon release, and its legacy was a long-standing urban legend that it was a testing game for Mortal Kombat 4's hardware. The ten have now gathered to fight over each other's pieces of the Ore. Chunks of the Ore are scattered across the planet over the course of human history, ten mortals find pieces of the Ore, which transforms each of them into immortal warriors. In the distant past, a spaceship carrying a powerful ore with the power to create life crash lands on Earth. To fill their market void, Midway commissioned a small development team made up of younger staff to take a crack at it, the result being War Gods. With Midway Chicago (better known these days as NetherRealm Studios) still knee-deep in polishing up Mortal Kombat 3 and its eventual Ultimate update, it would be a couple of years before they could enter the burgeoning 3D fighting realm being carved by Tekken and Virtua Fighter.

War Gods is a 3D fighting game by Midway Games, released in arcades in 1996 and ported to the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation in 1997.

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