Mace: The Dark Age review. Classic Game Room presents a CGRUndertow review of Mace: The Dark Age, developed and published by Midway. Fighting fans, it's time.
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Administering a nod in the direction of the PlayStation's forthcoming Soul Blade, with its weapons-led pummelling and 11-character set-up, Mace is Atari's winter attempt at securing the N64's beat-'em up crown. And with its forthcoming arcade incarnation (above) already receiving lorry-loads of praise, and Atari themselves promising an almost exact conversion, it ought to be able to make a courageous attempt.
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Perhaps the most pleasing news to emerge from Atari is that Mace will be an entirely 3D affair, with its world made up of fully polygonal characters as well as Virtua-Fighter-3-like interactive stages as backdrops for the rucking.
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Its cast of 11 fighters -- narrowed down from the 30 present in the earliest stages of development - includes some interesting personalities: Lord Deimos, an armoured knight; the pierced-nippled, battle-axe-equipped hardman, The Executioner; Middle-Eastern sword-swiper Al-Rashid; token samurai Takeshi; Viking axeman Blood Axe; mace-wielding mercenary Mardos Kull; blind (?) monk Xiao Long; royal sword-lover Countess Tiria; ninja boy Koyasha; and the girl-with-attitude,Namira. There're also two bosses, Grendal and Asmodious, both of whom possess a fair rippling portion of over-muscled fleshy bits.
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Mace boasts some glorious arenas, all of which have been given a different set of hazards. This means as well as having to cope with the onslaught of an especially ticklish opponent, the well-placed dangers of spikes, quicksand, lava and acid prove a secondary peril. A/lace's characters also sport some gorgeous graphical touches. Witness, for example, Namira's transparent trousers, or the flickering lighting effects as Xiao throws fire-stuff about.
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Certainly, Mace is shaping up to be a fantastic entry to the N64's growing beat-'em-up billboard, and with the arcade version on its way and likely to prove thoroughly wonderful, this 64-bit exhibition could provide starving fight fans with the title they've so far been denied.
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