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Mace: The Dark Age is a fightingvideo game released by Atari Games for arcade machines in 1997 and ported by Midway to the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Like many fighting games of the time, its style is marked by extreme violence, with characters graphically slaying defeated opponents. Utilizing 3Dfx Voodoo chips for the hardware, the game received attention for its cutting edge graphics and turned Atari a profit in the arcades. Critical response to the gameplay was much less enthusiastic.
Plot[edit]
Mace: The Dark Age's graphics were praised by many critics.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
In the 12th century, a collection of nations called the Covenant of Seven send their best warriors to kill Asmodeus, a practitioner of the dark arts who wields the fabled Mace of Tanis. The Mace is imbued with necropotic energy, offering those who wield it a tantalizing promise of ever-lasting life and unbridled power. Leaders from the East sense that Asmodeus is plotting and send their own warriors to eliminate him before it is too late.[9]
Gameplay[edit]
The game is similar to Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. and the Mortal Kombat series. Like in Mortal Kombat, when a character wins both rounds, they can perform an execution move on the enemy.
Similar to its contemporary Dead or Alive, in lieu of ring-outs Mace: The Dark Age has arenas which are surrounded by dangerous terrain, causing damage to any character who goes out of bounds.[10] An evade button allows characters to step backward or forward into the 3D environments.[9]
Characters[edit]
Secret characters:
Development[edit]
Mace: The Dark Age took roughly two years to develop.[13] The developers created 30 characters, then narrowed them down to a lineup of 11 through focus groups of teenagers.[10] The latest motion capture technology was used during the game's development.[14] A member of the Atari team who happened to be in the Society for Creative Anachronism did all the motion capture acting.[10]
The game was originally released on the arcade machines using the 3Dfx Voodoo graphics card,[6] the same technology powering San Francisco Rush.[15] The 3Dfx technology was cheaper to develop for than a proprietary system, and Atari used the savings to sell the game at a lower cost to arcade operators.[16]
Besides the Nintendo 64 port, a PlayStation version of the game was also planned but never released.[17]
Reception[edit]
Mace: The Dark Age was praised mainly because of its graphics. It was also noted for stage interactions with things such as water, and damaging areas such as lava. Next Generation reviewed the arcade version, stating that 'Detail and depth on the order of a Virtua Fighter take years of development and practice, and Atari Games has a good start. Mace is a beautifully designed game with attractive characters and bodes well for Mace II.'[4]Electronic Gaming Monthly later commented that 'If your local arcade had this machine in, then you probably took a close look at it at one point or another. ... It is clearly one of the most visually impressive fighting games around, boasting smooth animations and large, colorful characters.'[3]
The majority of reviewers credited Mace as the best N64 fighting game at the time of its release, while openly acknowledging that the pool of good fighting games available for the N64 at the time was quite shallow.[5][7][18][8] For example, Next Generation stated that 'The best fighter to hit Nintendo 64, Mace: The Dark Age, would still get pounded into the ground by any PlayStation or Saturn fighter game.'[18] However, Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot considered it inferior to the earlier N64 fighter Dark Rift, saying it 'looks fantastic but still plays poorly.'[6] This was a common lament, as critics widely agreed that the game's graphics are excellent[5][6][7][8] but the gameplay is mediocre due to issues such as uninteresting moves[5][6] and rough controls.[5][7] Kelly Rickards of Electronic Gaming Monthly elaborated, 'The combos, while cool to look at (like everything else in this game), don't flow smoothly and only seem to work when much flail action is being performed. The whole feel of the control interface seemed to be locked in a yesteryear-zone, back when the 3-D fighting game pioneers were still perfecting their art.'[5]
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Critics did praise the arena designs, particularly the interactive objects and danger zones,[5][7][18][8] with GamePro, one of the few to give Mace a wholly positive review, applauding the 'dynamic details that not only look great but add to the fun and playability of the game.'[8] Some also complimented the fatalities,[5][6][8] while opinions on the soundtrack were wildly divergent. IGN and GamePro both remarked that it fit the mood of the game well,[7][8] while Next Generation called it 'awful'[18] and Gerstmann said it was simply 'decent'.[6] The quality of the conversion from arcade to N64 was considered good by most reviewers,[5][6][8] though a number of them complained of bad frame rates.[5][7][18] According to Matt Casamassina of IGN, 'Possibly because of the attention to detail, character animation is sometimes choppy and, because of that, gameplay suffers.'[7]
In 2011, Complex included it on the list of ten 'most blatant Mortal Kombat ripoffs', adding, 'If anything, it was like a more brutal version of Soul Edge.'[19]
The arcade release was a commercial success.[16]
Notes[edit]References[edit]
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mace:_The_Dark_Age&oldid=982080709'
At the first screen to appear when the Nintendo 64 is powered on, press Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound. Now Ichiro and Gar Gunderson will appear above the Executioner on the character selection screen.
Play as Janitor Ned
On the character selection screen, highlight and then press Start on Koyasha, Executioner, Lord Deimos, Xiao Long, then press Quick to select Janitor Ned as your character.
Play as Pojo!
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Perform Taria's execution in one or two player mode. Then, start another match, highlight Taria, and hold Start on the character selection screen. Now Pojo! will appear as a selectable character. Continue holding Start and press Quick to select Pojo! as your character.
Play as Grendal
Accumulate three wins in two player mode. Then, start another match, highlight the Executioner, and hold Start on the character selection screen. Now Grendal will appear as a selectable character. Continue holding Start and press Quick to select Grendal as your character.
Big head mode
On the character selection screen, highlight and then press Start on Koyasha, Al' Rashid, Takeshi, then select a character.
Switch heads
On the character selection screen, highlight and then press Start on Al Rashid, Takeshi, Mordos Kull, Xio Long, Namira, then select a character. Now both characters will have their opponents head.
Small characters
On the character selection screen, highlight and then press Start on Takeshi, Al' Rashid, Ragnar, Xiao Long, then select a character.
Bunny slippers
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On the character selection screen, highlight and then press Start on Ragnar, Dregan, Koyasha, then select a character. Now both characters will be wearing bunny slippers.
Screen centering
Hold L + R + Z and move the Analog-Stick and D-pad in the same direction.
Alternate costume colors
Mace The Dark Age Nintendo 64
On the character selection screen, highlight a character and press L, R, C-Up, C-Down, C-Left, or C-Right to select from five additional colors.
Two player practice mode
Highlight 'Practice' and press Start simultaneously on controllers one and two.
Stage select
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At the character selection screen, highlight any character and press Start(4) to fight on his or her stage, after completing character selection normally.
Random opponent AI
On the character selection screen, highlight and then press Start on Hellknight, Xiao Long, Dregan, or Namira. Then, select a character.
Random opponent
Enable the 'Random opponent AI' code and begin a match. Then, quit the match and enter practice mode to face a random opponent.
Credit refill
Before the game has one credit remaining, press Start on controller two. Have player two defeat player one and go on to the next CPU-controlled round. Then, press Start during the match against the CPU and defeat player two. Now when player one faces the CPU fighter line up, six credits will be available again.
Two player bonus stages
On the character selection screen in two player mode, highlight and then press Start on each of the characters indicated below (in order). Then, select a character.
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