Reception
| Reviewer | Score |
|---|---|
| The Electric Playground | 8/10 |
| Allgame | 1.5/5 3/5 |
| Video Gamers First | 4.0/10 |
| IGN | 5.4/10 |
| Gamecenter.com | 2/5 |
| Nintendo Power | 3.73 out of 5 |
| Hot Games | 1/5 |
| AntKids.com | 60/100 |
| Gaming Age | 73/100 |
| GameSpot | 5/10 |
| GamePro | 4/5 |
| TotalGames.net | 79/100 |
Doug Perry at IGN.com gave Dark Rift an overall score of 5.4 - Mediocre (with its graphics scoring the highest points at 7.0), referring to the game as "a visually attractive game with very little in the way of gameplay." IGN's Peer Schneider said "Dark Rift suffers from a horrible lack of personality and is virtually devoid of any innovation."
Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot gave the game 5.0 - mediocre (with graphics again scoring highest at 8.0), saying it "feels like a Virtua Fighter-inspired mishmash of monsters, demons, and guys with guns. The graphic effects are the only things that save Dark Rift from falling below average."
SCARYLARRY at GamePro gave Dark Rift a short but positive review, stating simply "Although Dark Rift may not be in the elite class of fighters, Nintendo 64 owners starving for a slaying may find themselves satiated by a weekend with Dark Rift." He gave the game a score 4/5.
In reference to the "Trilogy of Terror" title used for Kronos's fighting games, Stan Liu (head and founder of Kronos) said "we got stuck doing fighting games for a while simply because we were one of the very few U.S. game developers that actually made a fighting game. Hence, Dark Rift and Cardinal Syn."
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