Played on a PAL copy of the game.

Dark Rift is a 3D fighting video game for the Nintendo 64, notable for being the first N64 game to use 60 frames per second. It has been referred to as the Nintendo 64's first native fighting game, though in actuality it is a port of a cancelled Sega Saturn game. In addition, it was originally announced that the Microsoft Windows version of the game would precede the Nintendo 64 version by one month.


It was originally announced under the title "Criticom II", and is the second of three fighting games developed by Kronos Digital, falling between Criticom and Cardinal Syn.


Players choose from eight playable characters to start; there are also two hidden characters which are unlocked by completing the game in single-player mode. Fights go for a default three-out-of-five rounds, as opposed to the more conventional two-out-of-three.


The Nintendo 64 version received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Game Informer gave it a mixed review, over a month before the game was released Stateside. In Japan, where the game was ported for release under the name Space Dynamites (スペースダイナマイツ, Supēsu Dainamaitsu) on March 27, 1998, Famitsu gave it a score of 24 out of 40.

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