Primal Rage is basically Street Fighter with monsters. Choose from seven monsters (some which are clones of each other) and claw your way through the opponents in story mode, train in training mode, or battle your friend in 2P mode.

Compared to the Genesis version, this has both advantages and disadvantages. Yet both have strong disadvantages compared to the original arcade version.

Primal Rage is a one on one fighting game where dinosaurs and gorillas fight each other for domination of the, "Urth". A simple concept, but the game is a little deeper than you might think. There are seven different characters you can choose from, five dinosaurs and two gorillas. It’s kinda gory, but very fun. It's similar to the Mortal Kombat games, at the end of the second round, you finish off your opponent. If you input a certain combination of buttons, your dino or gorilla will brutally murder your opponent(now that's entertainment). Of course, the Genesis version of Primal Rage can’t compare to the arcade version, due to it’s sixteen bit capabilities, but that doesn’t mean that the game isn’t fun. It still retains all the combos and "fatalities" from the arcade version, it just doesn't look quite as good as the arcade version did. Due to the many different options in the game, it can be very easy or very hard. You can set each opponent’s strength and how many rounds there are. In closing I would like to say that the game fills me with a primal need to rage against my buddies for the rule of Urth.

Primal Rage is basically a fighting game with huge monsters. Choose from six monsters (some are identical clones) and conquer the world in 1P Game mode or do a single match in 1P Training mode. Sadly, there is no two-player mode, many things are watered-down or taken out, and no more Vertigo. This version is very weak compared to all other versions.