Mace: The Dark Age

Mace: The Dark Age is a fighting video game published by Atari for arcade machines in 1997 and ported to the Nintendo 64 by Midway in 1997. The game is similar to Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. and the Mortal Kombat series. As in Mortal Kombat, a character who has won both rounds can perform an execution move on the opponent. Methods include severing an opponent's limbs and torso (Al Rashid), decapitation (The Executioner), repeated stabbing (Koyasha), impaling an opponent with a sword (Lord Deimos), breaking an opponent's back, by lifting him on a Viking helmet and throwing him to the ground (Ragnar), and some far-fetched methods such as ripping out the opponent's heart (Xiao Long), shrinking him (Namira), turning him into a chicken (Taria), and penetrating his body to blast him from the inside (Dregan). Note: Strongly borrowed from the arcade game Soul Edge (1995) - the first installment of the Souls series. The game borrowed heavily from the basic framework of WeaponLord (1995). Visual Concepts (the developers of WeaponLord) sent builds of the game to Namco (the publisher of WeaponLord) for testing.