War Gods is a video fighting game, created by Midway Games and released in arcades and eventually on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. The game is very similar to Midway's more famous Mortal Kombat series in featuring lots of gore and horrific fatalities. The array of playable characters feature gods (or, more accurately, immortals). The most famous featured character in the game is Anubis, the Ancient Egyptian god of embalming. Other characters are more reminiscent of Roman gladiators such as "Maximus", the houngoun "Voodoo", the questionable Kabuki Jo and the obviously fictional cybernetic "C-5".

Released by Midway as a sort of litmus test of its new 3D software prior to the release of Mortal Kombat 4, War Gods was not a big success. The game was frowned upon by critics for the clumsy use of human models in its character design and also, quite surprisingly, the lack of clothing on the female characters.

1996 arcade games | 1997 computer and video games | Arcade games | Nintendo 64 games | PlayStation games | Windows games

Characters

• Warhead
• Kabuki Jo
• Cy-5
• Tak
• Pagan
• Vallah
• Maximus
• Anubis
• Voodoo
• Ahau Kin