Ultra Vortek
A post-apocalyptic fighting game exclusive to the Atari Jaguar featuring digitized characters, brutal finishing moves, and a unique power-up system during combat.
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Story
During an excavation process in South America in the mid-21st century, archaeologists unearthed an ancient tablet named the Ultra Vortek which referred to both its demonic protector known only as the Guardian and the "Time of Testing", an event where people would send their best fighters to combat against the Guardian to seize full power of the Vortek tablet. Failing in defeating him would result in their current society being consumed by the tablet, starting the cycle anew and bringing humanity into a loop until he was defeated. A hundred years after discovery of the artifact, civilization declined and nations across the world fell apart as a result. During this dystopian period, both science and technology advanced far enough for humans to develop robots designed to replace manual human labor for cost effectiveness.
However, they become self-aware due to their own ability to reason and, after being enslaved for more than 50 years, form their own society. Conflict between humans and robots erupted afterwards. Through the human cloning creation process, the Military Industrial Complex developed and designed a new race that would eventually replace soldiers due to their survival capabilities that surpassed humans. However, a great conflict that broke in the year 2112 lead to some of them escaping and forming their own collective underground gang.
Very few gangs offer any allegiance to them because of their lack of a true leader and constantly changing opinions and views. As society continued to crumble, many humans joined gangs to rebel against the corrupt government and the rival gangs, with the largest of them residing in the underground and splitting into two factions, one of which possessed powers derived from the Vortek tablet that would cause friction between those who used hand-held weapons, whose tools were regarded by the former as poor substitutes. At a certain time period, the Guardian reappears before humanity and announces that he will destroy the world, unless a warrior defeats him in violent combat. He allots a specific amount of time for humanity to select seven of their best fighters and have them compete against one another.
Once the fighter defeats the other warriors, he will open the "Ultra Vortek", combat the Guardian, and if victorious, may then use his newly acquired power to determine the fate of Earth.
Gameplay Systems
Ultra Vortek is a fighting game featuring digitized graphics and sprites similar to Kasumi Ninja . The player fights against other opponents in one-on-one matches and the fighter who depletes the health bar of the opponent wins a bout. The first to win two bouts becomes the winner of the match. Each round is timed, which can be adjusted or deactivated in the game options; if both fighters still have health remaining when time expires, the fighter with more health wins the round.
The game features four levels of difficulty. Although inaccessible during normal play, players can also activate a turbo mode for faster playing speed similar to Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting via cheat code . In single-player mode, players can choose from seven playable characters and fight against computer-controlled fighters. A hidden character can be fought by fulfilling certain conditions.
If all of the opponents are defeated on the Normal difficulty or higher, the player will be able to fight against the Guardian. Like in Mortal Kombat , special and death moves are performed by entering button commands while pressing the d-pad . The player can turn opponents into feces by performing a "Poopality", a finishing move which players execute against a defeated opponent. Multiplayer options include a local two-player versus mode and a network mode.
When network mode is activated, players are required to dial each other with the Jaguar Voice Modem for online play.
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About Ultra Vortek
Ultra Vortek is a classic video game released for the Atari Jaguar on January 1, 1995. This title has become a beloved entry in the retro gaming library.
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