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Primal Rage 2 footage found after being in storage for 14 years, with 8 playable characters

Posted by SFilp
December 31, 2012 at 5:51 p.m. PST
Primal Rage, one of the most graphic and repulsive games of it's time had a sequel being developed. Unfortunately, the sequel was cancelled by Atari and only seen the light of day during a test held at Golf Land arcade in Sunnyvale, California.

Although the game was never released, it's story was later adapted into a novel called Primal Rage: The Avatars written by John Vornholt.

The book's plot tells about what happened to the dinosaur gods 65 million years ago, and then moves into the main story of the gods' reign on Urth renewed, but then the beast Necrosan appears. The book focuses as well on fleshing out the world of Primal Rage, and does so by bringing "the Avatars" to the forefront of the story, they being the humans chosen by their respective gods to be their shamans or other titles of nobility.

Fortunately, a copy of an early prototype has been found after being in storage for 14 years and some off screen footage has been recorded.

From Joystiq, quote via the Primal Rage Wikipedia and video via RayDude.

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Dragonite said on December 31, 2012 at 6:04 p.m.

I saw a test build for this game at an old arcade in Nor Cal. Easily the biggest, most insultingly disappointing piece of crap I'd ever seen.

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Althegamefreak said on December 31, 2012 at 6:13 p.m.

Looks Disapointing...in comparison to the original.

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jtir123 said on December 31, 2012 at 6:19 p.m.

Yeah, seeing the game turn into and MK clone was sad. The original with the dinosaurs and monsters was the best. Awful idea to change what made it unique, might as well be a different game.

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CyberAthlete said on December 31, 2012 at 6:22 p.m.

I wanna be a nEO PALADIn

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Existent said on December 31, 2012 at 7 p.m.

It's not a bad thing that this never released. The original characters were what made it fun.

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Existent said on December 31, 2012 at 7:01 p.m.

*Double post

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illness690 said on December 31, 2012 at 7:06 p.m.

IMO the first game was pretty bad as well.

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flairinmike said on December 31, 2012 at 7:08 p.m.

Looks kinda like a rendered sprite version of weaponlord. First game was ass though

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Banzai said on December 31, 2012 at 7:16 p.m.

A 14 year old HD 1080p footage. Seems legit.

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BlazinKoolBreez said on December 31, 2012 at 7:31 p.m.

If there are games like this laying around in storage, I wonder if there are other canceled games around the country, I would love to play that Capcom Fighting All Stars (I believe thats the name) with Charlie, Strider, Alex n those new ppl, the trailer looked fun n it was a 3d style
Dreamking or Catalyst, whoever, should put this up on Eventhubs so more ppl r aware of it
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_obV...
Someones commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_obV...

They should at least let ppl test it out,I heard that a majority of the negative feedback on the game was because of the use of 3d graphics, no fair I cant play it

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bunny said on December 31, 2012 at 7:38 p.m.

thats cool fun story

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DarkPhoenixRises said on December 31, 2012 at 7:49 p.m.

@10 wow that games might have failed at the time, but I think it looks awesome!! Poison was a surprise and OMG Strider..capcom would have had all my money.

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Him said on December 31, 2012 at 8:23 p.m.

I never liked Primal Rage.

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JIHADJOE said on December 31, 2012 at 9:06 p.m.

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I remember seeing that! Ryu's super from that prototype became his focus attack in SF4.

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MM_Lowtier said on December 31, 2012 at 9:17 p.m.

Wait for the video to finish/or skip to the end, then watch the 1st video on thumbnail "Priam rage all finishers" Please, It is beyond...Beyond legendary.

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MeatSauce said on December 31, 2012 at 9:36 p.m.

Unfortunately, a copy of an early prototype has been found after being in storage for 14 years and some off screen footage has been recorded.

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genocide_cutter said on December 31, 2012 at 10:10 p.m.

meh I glad it stayed unreleased

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EXCh33ky said on December 31, 2012 at 10:19 p.m.

Weird, today I was thinking how I would like to have seen the original primal rage redone with todays systems

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Boogityboy said on December 31, 2012 at 11:18 p.m.

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JesseRobles said on December 31, 2012 at 11:33 p.m.

DO IT! Kreygasm

I liked the first Primal Rage because of the cool monsters, music, story, and overall ambiance. But the gameplay was sucky indeed. Pretty fun at that time though. Good memories. On the other hand, this cancelled sequel looks so different and not appealing at all to me, but I did enjoy the book, the story is really cool.

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BaroqueObama said on January 1, 2013 at 1:17 a.m.

One of the most graphic and repulsive games of it is time
It is story was later adapted

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JIHADJOE said on January 1, 2013 at 2:38 a.m.

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Probably a VHS tape ran through a capture card. Even if the source was bad, the card can still capture it in 1080p.

Also, studies do indicate that 35mm film has a resolution far higher than 1080p. It's actually closer to 4k.*

* http://www.filmschoolonline.com/sampl...

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tidestick said on January 1, 2013 at 5:20 a.m.

the first primal rage was dope. i loved doing the finishers and eating you up. this pm2 is no bueno.

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AugustAPC said on January 1, 2013 at 5:28 a.m.

Primal Rage wasn't good for its gameplay. But it had a really cool style. Playing as giant dinosaurs, apes and monsters that were essentially gods while tiny humans bowed at your feet was just awesome. I loved how you could kill them too. The game had great sound, visuals and atmosphere.

That being said... this sequel looks like it would have sucked. The characters look lame as hell. I must admit, though, the animation is pretty smooth and the gameplay looks like it got a decent upgrade (though that's not saying much.)

Still... it's really cool when things that are so relevant to our childhoods just appear after such a long time. Though this game looks like it would've sucked if it had been completed... it still put a smile on my face to see such a thing uncovered.

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jadeguy said on January 1, 2013 at 8:43 a.m.

Mortal Kombat Vs. Primal Rage

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fjnzstl said on January 1, 2013 at 12:30 p.m.

I'm just glad I finally get to see it. Primal Rage has always been one of my favorite fighting games (the arcade version) even though the controls were really awkward. The only thing That keeps Primal Rage appealing to me is Dinosaurs beating the crap out of each other. So, if the do make a Primal Rage 2 (probably not) I hope they still use the dinosaurs instead of "avatars"

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darkneji said on January 1, 2013 at 12:44 p.m.

No Sauron no good.

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alphagen said on January 1, 2013 at 7:39 p.m.

This SH_T looks like Clay fighters. Thank god this got the plug pulled on it! The first one looked hella better!

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xShonuffx said on January 1, 2013 at 9:19 p.m.

This game looks like it was trying for competing with KI2 at the time. Was this cancled and why?

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sdfgewiousdyfgwu said on January 2, 2013 at 3:34 a.m.

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