The fights themselves are a two-round affair and the modes on offer are arcade, versus and a ‘Biography’ section where you can read a couple of lines about each character. Each character also has their own special attacks which seem to randomly happen during battles, I played primarily as Jesus, mainly because he is the character I’m most familiar with, and, upon starting the stage, it amused me how his intro is to jump down off the cross, ripping the wooden arms off to use as weapon as he does so.

Controls are handled by weak/medium/hard attack buttons as well as a throw. Nick make you think that this is a game full of laughs, beyond his appearance the game is decidedly straight, which is part of the problem. There are currently thirteen characters to choose from, ranging from Jesus to Buddha to….Santa. This is precisely what Fight of Gods does but the approach to all aspects of the game is as generic and literal as the title of the game itself, whist it does move smoothly and the backgrounds of the stages are quite pretty in some cases, the game mechanics and options just don’t have enough to offer. I like the idea, getting a roster of Gods and key religious figures from around the world and thrusting them, through some tenuous circumstance, into a situation where they have to battle each other to gain victory over some unseen uber-foe. What could have been a fun, tongue-in-cheek fighting game is instead a generic and repetitive title with few joys to be found beyond the actual concept itself.

Battle of the gods video game