War of the Monsters is a rather unusual fighting game. Not like King of the Monsters playing more like a wrestling game then the follow up became a beat em up. Although some of it's ports maintains being a fighting game instead. No this took more influence from the 50s & 60s science fiction films. Yes there's some homage to Kaiju films of Japan.
One of my favorite easter eggs of any game is if you beaten Sweet Tooth's story in Twisted Metal: Black with it saved. The hidden fourth costume of Agamo is actually Mecha Sweet Tooth. I actually asked Dave Jaffe through his blog many years ago why this never got a sequel. He stated it just didn't sell enough.
I felt this game is a worthy rival to some of the newer Godzilla fighting games of the time. Most endings of the monsters is actually telling the origin. Very few of the endings do the purpose you expect it to. There's two hidden monsters that play differently from most of the roster. Yes you can face both of them in story mode.
Speaking of story mode there's a lot of fights with three crazy boss fights. Sadly you didn't play as any of the bosses. OMG the final boss is so tough to bring down since he has several phrases. The audio department is a solid master piece with amazing sound effects. War of the Monsters has a great variety of levels.
I also like you could do coop during the story mode. There's a couple colors for every monsters. You can't change Mecha Sweet Tooth but he does often laugh during the game play. Also he looks the most bad ass of the monsters. The levels themselves do variety in size but some have surprises you can easily miss.
This game predates Godzilla appearing on the console. I also like you can play it similar to Rampage series. Which is more fun than doing the same thing in King of the Monsters. I also like each monsters plays more differently from each other to spice up the game play. I hate to say it a lot of people have forgotten about this game.
War of the Monsters also seems to have more lively locations than King of the Monsters. I also like you can search for parts of buildings you can use as weapons. Some of the best weapons are well hidden that can be game changers. The boss fights can be a little too repetitive for some people's taste.
Let me explain, the second boss is a giant mutant plant. There are a few breaks that involves dealing with a multiple regular enemies. But this creature can easily get in cheap shots. If you make it far enough when you lose. Instead of completely restarting the fight, he will be almost defeated. The first boss after you learn the pattern ends up being surprisingly easy.
Although if you do attack at the wrong time you will lose a lot of health fast. The final boss is the leader of the alien using an unusual UFO infused machine. This guy has the most phrases out of all the bosses. It also took me the longest to defeat him taking me sometimes hours to do so. Sometimes I end up having rage quits yes I have those too thank you.
Overall War of the Monsters is a great fighting game with a lot of variety. I felt the best possible experience is playing against another player. Although attempting a coop run is also a lot of fun too. This game held it's own against Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee on GameCube & I believe another Godzilla game on Xbox.
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