Pray for Death

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Description

This is one of the few fighting games that follows the Killer Instinct school of fighting, that is: lots of eye candy, techno soundtrack and combo moves that allow you to string together dozens of hits.

Storywise the game puts you in the shoes of a deceased character among a gallery of several equally dead characters competing in hell on a tournament sponsored by Lucifer himself with the grand prize being to return to the mortal plane.

The characters include the standard amount of "real" martial artists like the Bruce Lee clone and the dominatrix, as well as some fantasy characters like demons, vikings, etc. each with his own array of special moves, combos and finishing moves.

Graphically the game pulls some nifty tricks. Backgrounds consist of looping FMV and pre-rendered sprites with pyrotechnic effects, reflecting water, etc.., the camera zooms in and out of the fighters, etc.

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• Inspiration: Author - H. P. Lovecraft

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Critic Reviews

PC Zone (1993-2010)	DOS	Aug 13, 2001	7 out of 10	70
Gamezilla	DOS	Mar 09, 2000	68 out of 100	68
PC Joker	DOS	Aug, 1996	67 out of 100	67
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Jul, 1996		60
GameSpot	DOS	Dec 19, 1996	5.3 out of 10	53
Power Play	DOS	Jul, 1996	49 out of 100	49
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Jul, 1996	43 out of 100	43
PC Action (Germany)	DOS	Jul, 1996	40 out of 100	40

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Trivia

Pray for Death is quite possibly the only game to feature H.P. Lovecraft's infamous Cthulhu as a playable character.