When Monsters Attack!

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Grab your loved ones and run for it -- we've got five more monster games to cover, and they look like trouble.

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War of the Monsters

This pretty PS2 homage to old-school monster movies came courtesy of Incognito, the folks behind Twisted Metal Black and the PS3 hit Warhawk. Set in the 1950's, it featured ten radioactive beasts culled from every corner of sci-fi lore. Whether you chose to take down the opposition as a giant ape, overgrown praying mantis, towering dinosaur or massive super robot, the idea was the same: smash, smash, and smash some more. A small but vocal fanbase is clamoring for a sequel. So are we.

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SimCity

You've set up a smart city grid, a bastion of hope and industry, the greatest city the world has ever known...only to watch it turn into a giant monster romper room. Indeed, Will Wright's inspired city-planning game had its fair share of disaster situations, but none were as memorable as the soul-crushing moment a pixilated monster ruined your flawless interstate by trampling across the map. Worst of all, there was really no way to avoid it other than tearing your city apart before it had a chance to wreck it. Remember: save early, save often!

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God of War

Technically, Kratos' epic journey from heaven to hell and back again isn't focused on giant monsters so much as bloodthirsty, chain-whipping revenge. But steeped in Greek mythology as it is, God of War features some of the biggest and baddest beasts ever turned into ones and zeroes. Battles from the first game include the massive Hydra and even more massive God of War, Ares, while the sequel pits you against the long-limbed Kraken and the impossibly huge Colossus of Rhodes. Who knows what enormous horrors lie waiting in future installments?

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King of the Monsters

Long before computer-generated monsters dominated the film industry, athletic guys wearing cheesy rubber ape suits would parade around miniaturized cityscapes, sacrificing their bodies to create the illusion that an octopus the size of a skyscraper was stomping across Japan. It sounds stupid, but it worked like a charm. The same goes for SNK's giant monster wrestling game, which turned cities into virtual rings and its monstrous competitors into oversized grapplers, complete with flying elbows, suplexes and submissions. Initially appearing on the NeoGeo, it body slammed its way to the SNES and Genesis before eventually being pinned into obscurity.

Primal Rage

In the mid-90's, you couldn't walk through an arcade without bumping into at least a dozen 2D fighting games. Only one, however, had the moxie to feature a cast of five brutal dinosaurs and two magical apes. From this ridiculously cool premise sprung a mediocre brawler with outstanding graphics and a distinct resemblance to the far more famous Mortal Kombat. While that game would go on to become a legend, Primal Rage would go the way of the dinos and die out in a matter of minutes.