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War of the Monsters (known as Kaiju Daigekisen in Japan) is a 3D Fighting Game for the PlayStation 2, made by Incognito Entertainment (of Twisted Metal fame) in 2003, and eventually re-released on the PlayStation Network.
The game is set in the aftermath of an alien invasion of Earth where their hazardous fuels have spawned giant monsters that battle one another in city environments. The game is presented in the style of a 1950's science fiction and monster movie, making homages towards the films in those genres.
The monsters you can play are:
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- Congar - A giant gorilla, mutated from a space monkey that got hit by the alien's UFO and crashed into the Earth
- Togera - A huge, dinosaur-like reptile.
- Preytor - A giant, mutated praying mantis, created when a Mad Scientist fed the mantis the UFO's nuclear waste.
- Robo-47 - A 1950sUS military combat robot with nukes, brought to life thanks to gasses from the UFO seeped into its storage.
- Agamo - A tiki-style stone behemoth, brought to life by a native feeding the statue head goop from the UFO.
- Magmo - A four-armed magma monster which mutated from a volcano.
- Ultra V - A brightly-coloured Japanese fighting robot, brought to life by Japanese scientists, then quickly looses control of.
- Kineticlops - A giant eyeball with a body made up of lightning, created when a security guard was hit by lightning after he was contaminated with alien fuel.
- Zorgulon - A huge alien, similar to the antagonists themselves.
- Raptros - A giant, fire-breathing dragon.
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This game provides examples of:
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: Most of the things you can unlock in the game are alternate skins for the monsters.
- Affectionate Parody: Of Fifties sci-fi and B Movies, as well as Kaiju movies.
- Aliens and Monsters: An alien invasion is precisely what caused the monster to come about in the first place. The aliens also constitute the final foes after the player defeats all the other monsters.
- Aliens Are Bastards: They invaded Earth for no discernible reason. Of course they're bastards!
- An Ice Person: Congar's fourth skin is effectively him made of ice.
- America Saves the Day: From the star logo, it looks like Robo-47 was made by Yanks with Tanks. Averted if the player character wipes out the task force sent with Robo-47.
- Applied Phlebotinum: The alien fuel that gives birth to most of the game's monsters.
- Area 51: Rosdale Canyon.
- Artificial Brilliance: Used in the most annoying way possible as the AI is very cowardly. The second a fight stops going their way, a CPU will run, hide and grab every single health power-up in the arena. The issue is only compounded by the AI's tendency to Gang Up on the Human leading to times where injured monsters will run off and heal themselves while non-wounded monsters will swarm around you and kick the shit out of you.
- Artistic License – Nuclear Physics: Atomic Island is built of this trope.
- There are multiple 'reactor towers' in the map. The biggest, if jump-attacked, regenerates your energy. Destroying the other four in the campaign exposes their inner giant electrodes and triggers a nuclear meltdown.
- The actual reactors are completely harmless, and their destruction is inconsequential.
- The center of the map has what appears to be a giant basin (which contains the aforementioned regen tower) and waste disposal furnace; which if jump-attacked, unloads a lake of radioactive lava into the pit, which contains multiple buildings and roadways, and even a moving car.
- The sky is a sickly shade of green.
- There are multiple 'reactor towers' in the map. The biggest, if jump-attacked, regenerates your energy. Destroying the other four in the campaign exposes their inner giant electrodes and triggers a nuclear meltdown.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Duh.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Cerebulon. After defeating his first two mecha-based forms, you might think that battling his physical form would be easier. You would be wrong. He has blindingly fast melee attacks, so much so that most characters can't get an attack in once his combo starts. You will then be thrown across the map, missing a large portion of your health.
- Beam Spam: Zorgulon's UFOs and Ultra-V's eye lasers.
- Behemoth Battle: It's a Fighting Game where you can play as different kinds of Kaiju. Or one of two Humongous Mecha.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: All of Preytor's assorted skins are of some kind of giant insect. The default form is a giant green praying mantis, the second is a red ant, and the fourth is a hornet.
- Big Red Devil: Togera's fourth skin is a gigantic crimson demon that honestly could pass as the Devil were he a kaiju.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Togera has spiked blades that extend from the back of his wrists during punch attacks. Robo-47 occasionaly has blades replace his hands for melee attacks.
- B-Movie: The game itself and the 'movie posters' for each level are generally like this, and the game is presented in the style of 1950's science fiction and monster movie.
- Body Horror: Kineticlops is a security guard who was hit by lightning after he was contaminated with alien fuel, mutating him into an eye suspended in lightning.
- Boring, but Practical: Your monster regenerates attack energy most effectively by using melee weapons.
- Breath Weapon: Togera, Congar, Preytor, Magmo and Raptros' attacks.
- Bullfight Boss: Goliath Prime's second stage.
- Captain Ersatz: Quite a lot.
- Togera is Godzilla. His third skin serves as one for Mecha-Godzilla.
- Congar is King Kong. He also has one for Mechani-Kong with his third skin.
- Ultra V is Mazinger Z. An alternate skin resembles Eva Unit-01.
- Preytor is The Deadly Mantis. An alternate skin is THEM!
- Agamo is Daimajin.
- Raptros is Rodan crossed with King Ghidorah.
- This is done with the arenas, too:
- Midtown Park is New York City, particularly Manhattan around Central Park.
- Gambler's Gulch is the Las Vegas Strip.
- Rosdale Canyon is Area 51.
- Metro City is Chicago.
- Baytown (and Mini Baytown) is San Francisco.
- Club Caldera is Honolulu.
- Tsunopolis is Tokyo.
- Capitol is Washington, D.C..
- Combat Pragmatist: You want to win this game? Then learn how to fight dirty! Throw radio antennae to spear enemies, blow them to smithereens with explosive gas tanks, pick up chunks of debris and bash monsters' heads in, use generators as massive tasers, or send a building crashing down onto someone's ugly head. You're frequently outnumbered by enemies that don't play fair as it is, so you have to be more cunning than them.
- Conveniently Empty Building: Baytown, Capitol, UFO, and Rosdale Canyon don't have any civilians in them.
- Cool Sword / BFS: The Excalibur Resort Expy in Gambler's Gulch has a massive sword, set in stone, that deals a LOT of damage and has a wide sweep. It breaks like any other weapon, sadly.
- Cycle of Hurting: Happens a lot in Adventure Mode because of Gang Up on the Human. Get impaled, then get thrown, then get hit in the face with a gas tanker as you try to stand back up... All the while your health is getting lower and you're getting kicked further away from any debris or powerups you could use to turn the tide.
- Death by a Thousand Cuts: Robo-47 and Ultra-V's projectile attacks. Also, the military in adventure mode.
- Dem Bones: Raptros' 4th skin, making him a Dracolich.
- Deflector Shields: Cerebulon has this for its first form.
- Distaff Counterpart: One of Ultra V's bonus skins is Ultra VI, a female verson of the giant mecha.
- Drop the Hammer: Robo-47 will often tranform his hands into different weapons to attack, including a hammer.
- Earthquakes Cause Fissures: The earthquake that can be triggered in Baytown does this.
- Energy Beings: Kineticlops.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: With the exception of fire engines from Metro City.
- Excuse Plot: The aftermath of a failed alien invasion has spawned a whole bunch of monsters. Take control of one of them and beat the others up!
- Explosion Propulsion: Try throwing a tanker truck at an enemy, and watch them go sailing away into the air.
- Faceless Eye: Kineticlops is one surrounded by electricity.
- Flight: Raptros and Preytor are both the only monsters capable of maintaining flight, but Raptros can stay in the air much longer (and fly more smoothly) than Preytor.
- Flunky Boss: In the first battle against Robo-47, it sends an entire army at you.
- Frickin' Laser Beams: Zorgulon and Ultra V's projectiles. Also, Cerebulon's mega-laser of death.
- Gang Up on the Human: Good lord, this game loves this trope. Even if the cinematic shows you jumping into a fight between two other monsters, they will focus all their attacks on you. This generally takes the form of almost finishing 1 monster off, only to be stunned/impaled by the other while the first one runs for health. Even in 'Free-For-All,' expect the enemy to gang up on you, even if one of them could die in the next hit (which could win them the match in some cases). They'd rather fight you than win.
- Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Triggerable in Tsunopolis.
- Glass Cannon: The army's rocket trucks in the second Adventure mission.
- Green Rocks: The alien fuel. Bonus points for it having a Sickly Green Glow.
- Guest Fighter:
- Sweet Tooth is unlocked as an alternate costume for Agamo if you have a Twisted Metal: Black save file on your memory card on the original version. On the PS4 port, it's unlocked automatically.
- Kineticlops is unlockable in the game Downhill Domination.
- Helicopter Flyswatter: Monsters can swat, shoot, throw objects at, or even simply run into helicopters to destroy them.
- Herd-Hitting Attack: Every monster's close range special attack.
- Hero Antagonist: The Humongous Mecha enemies to encounter in adventure mode are man-made creations designed to fight and kill monsters like you. That aside, chances are they're going to cause just as much destruction as you will, which calls their heroism into question.
- Hoist by His Own Petard:
- The first stage of the first boss has you throw his own explosives back at him.
- Cerebulon counts too, as you fight his second form by throwing pieces of his first form at him, which are the only things capable of hurting him.
- Hula and Luaus: Magmo's level.
- Humongous Mecha: Ultra V and Robo-47, as well as various alternate skins. The first and final boss as well (though in the case of the latter, only it's first two forms).
- I Love Nuclear Power:
- Robo-47 has a nuclear warhead...for his ranged attack.
- Also, Atomic Island's central reactor tower rapidly regenerates monsters' energy.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Pipes and radio towers are used for this.
- Improvised Weapon: Damn near everything. If you can pick it up, you can use it to put the hurt on your enemies. If you can't pick it up, you can probably smash it and use the pieces to put the hurt on your enemies. Alternatively, throw your enemies at it.
- Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!:
- In the story mode, the military attacks Preytor and the player's monster with their own, cyborg Congar.
- In fact, most of the (living) monsters have 'mecha' variations amongst their alternate skins, except for Kineticlops, Raptros and Zorgulon.
- 'Instant Death' Radius: Cerebulon's second form invokes this hard. His only attack is an unblockable red lightning cannon with rather short range. Did we mention he's aSuper-Persistent Predatorwith one of the fastest running speeds in the game?
- Katanas Are Just Better: Ultra V uses a laser katana for its close range finisher.
- King Kong Copy: One of the principal monsters (to the point he's featured on the game's cover) that you can play as is a gigantic ape called Congar, who's special attack is his devastating roar. He even scales a skyscraper during his introduction animation in story mode. His origin is revealed that he was a chimpanzee launched in a rocket that collided with a crashing flying saucer.
- Knockback Evasion: Hitting L1 and R1 while positined vertically if thrown will engage an Air Recovery, which sets you back on your feet and avoids a lot of impact damage.
- Living Lava: Magmo.
- Losing Your Head:
- Agamo's long-range special attack has him rip his head off and use it as a projectile.
- Kineticlops' eye is used to the same effect during one of his victory poses.
- Macross Missile Massacre: With enough energy orbs/powerups nearby, this can be done by Magmo, Robo-47, and Preytor.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: Congar's attacks.
- Man-Eating Plant: Vegon, the venus flytrap-like boss on Atomic Island.
- Mighty Glacier: As ironic as it is to call him a glacier, but this is Magmo in a nutshell. He hits the hardest and is the most durable of the monsters, but he runs slowly, his missile attack is sluggish, and a lot of his attacks have a bit of a windup. Agamo also applies to a lesser extent.
- Monumental Damage: The Capitol level.
- The Eiffel Tower and the Great Pyramid during the intro movie.
- The Coit Tower and Palace of Fine Arts can be leveled in Bay Town.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Magmo'a got four arms of pain.
- No OSHA Compliance: Atomic Island, in spades.
- Not Zilla: Togera.
- Old Save Bonus: Having Twisted Metal: Black unlocks Agamo's 4th skin: Mecha-Sweet Tooth.
- Personal Space Invader: Preytor's long-range special attack. To clarify, it's a giant parasite. That latches onto your face.
- Playing with Fire: Raptros' and Magmo's attacks.
- Punched Across the Room: All the time. Some attacks are specifically designed to launch enemies and will send them flying clean across the city.
- Pyrrhic Victory: The game begins with this, for humanity as a whole. The alien menace was defeated, but the fuel used to power their spaceships has spilled all over the world and created all kinds of gigantic monsters the human race is not equipped to fight.
- And then the aliens come back anyway. Crap.
- Red Shirt Army: Earth's military.
- Rewarding Vandalism: A good way to rebuild your energy bar or find health, and frees up debris to hit your enemies with. It also gives points that can be used for unlockable skins and arenas.
- Rocket Punch: Ultra-V can use this to pull monsters over to him and stun them.
- Shadow Discretion Shot: When Preytor devours a scientist in her origin video.
- Shock and Awe: Kineticlops.
- Shout-Out:
- Three in-game storefronts are named after the Greek muses Calliope, Clio, and Erato.
- An early art concept for Robo-47 features the numbers 246-01.
- The Smurfette Principle: Preytor is the only female monster of the bunch, seeing as how one of the unused demos show that she had lain eggs.
- Spikes of Doom: Togera.
- Spin Attack: The move of choice for the first boss in one-player mode.
- Spinning Paper: During the opening cinematic.
- Spiritual Successor: Not an intentional one, but this game pretty much plays like an updated version of King of the Monsters.
- Start of Darkness: Completing the game reveals your chosen monster's origin.
- Squashed Flat: Toppling a skyscraper onto an opponent (or yourself) results in a One-Hit Kill.
- Tanks for Nothing: Played pretty straight. They are destroyed by the dozen in cutscenes, and deal next to no damage in-game. The missile trucks, on the other hand...
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The AI not only knows exactly where all the health pickups are on the map, but also knows when they appear.
- The Tokyo Fireball: Tsunopolis.
- Too Dumb to Live: The scientist that inadvertently creates Preytor by feeding the mantis some of the alien fuel. He gets Eaten Alive by her for his troubles when she grows.
- Tripod Terror: Cerebulon, the final boss of the one-player mode.
- Updated Re-release: The game was ported to PS4 with higher-resolution textures, 1080p support, and trophies.
- Victory Pose: Whenever you win a round in a story mode, or in the 'first-to-X-kills' challenges.
- Villain Protagonist: You're a giant monster or mecha that has gained self-awareness, and the only thing you care about is blowing stuff up and taking out the competition. Human lives mean absolutely nothing to you!
- Visible Invisibility: Of the shimmering/vaguely distorted type, from power-ups. It doesn't work on the AI.
- Viva Las Vegas!: Gambler's Gulch.
- Wolverine Claws: Togera has these all over his body! The spikes on his wrists, shoulders, and legs can all be extended and retracted at will.
- You Nuke 'Em: Robo-47 launches a tactical nuke as his long-range special. It hurts.
- Your Head Asplode: Cerebulon, after you defeat his last form. Technically, Agamo as well, as part of his long-range special (the exploding head has already been replaced though).