With their market dwindling away, Atari feared that Primal Rage II wouldn't make enough money to recoup development costs much less turn a profit. Thanks to the convenience and capabilities of home consoles and PC gaming, arcades began to drop off significantly in popularity. Unfortunately, the sequel's release date turned out to be quite ill-fated, as 1995 was a keystone year in the massive decline of arcades and their accompanying titles and machines. Primal Rage II, slated for a 1995 release, was well underway while the original was still circulating in arcades and on home consoles. One great game begets another, and it wasn't long before the developers at Atari Games began work on a sequel. However, due to the visceral nature of the game and its finishing moves, nearly every console port censored the game in some way. The game saw a widespread release in arcades and drew substantial popularity, leading to the game being ported on multiple home consoles. The controls operated somewhat similarly to Mortal Kombat, though players would need to hold and release buttons in order to use their character's special attacks. In gameplay, players could either traverse arcade mode as their preferred god, systematically defeating opponents and conquering territory, or they could play against friends and take over Urth by winning on the game's various stages. The continents of the planet had rearranged, and each Draconian would now step into the fray to conquer the planet. Most of Urth's population, knowing they stood no chance to stop these powerful beasts, threw their weight behind individual Draconians and began worshipping them as gods. These creatures once battled for total domination in a forgotten conflict known as the Mesozoic Wars, and the time had come for the battle for supremacy to continue anew. Many of these creatures were massive dinosaurs, though others resembled apes, and one creature was serpentine in nature and returned to the planet (now known as Urth) from the moon. During this near-extinction event, massive creatures known as the Draconians, once thought sealed away during the extinction of the dinosaurs, rose from their confinement.
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