This game is rated ESRB: Mature 17+ for Animated Blood and Gore, Animated Violence and Blood and Gore.
War Gods is a 1995 arcade fighting game developed by Midway Games, later ported to the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, and PC. The premise traces back billions of years to an alien vessel carrying life-sustaining Ore that crashed onto a primordial Earth, scattering its cargo across the planet's surface. Over countless millennia, ten humans encountered fragments of this extraterrestrial material and were transformed into immensely powerful, super-evolved combatants. Players choose from among these altered warriors and compete in one-on-one fights in the tradition of Midway's digitized-sprite fighting titles. The roster's origins in alien transformation give each character a distinct, fantastical quality that sets the game apart from more grounded contemporaries. As an arcade release from the mid-1990s, it reflects the period's appetite for visually intense, lore-driven fighting games competing in the same market as Mortal Kombat and similar titles.
