I think of it a little differently…we wouldn’t be doing just a generic time-period fighter, we’d be doing one of the many characters (kings, peasents, murderers, generals, artists, writers) from world history and exaggerating them and beefing them up in the style of a fighting game, Here’s a few cool examples…
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[li]Jack the Ripper - a dirty street fighter, dressed in a trench coat and a top hat, an apron sprayed with blood, his face is aged and scarred, his teeth are broken and yellow. He creeps in the arena, tosses his coat on the ground, and pulls a hacksaw and butcher’s knife from his bag of goodies. His special move could be decapitation, or he could bite somebody’s ear off.[/li][/ul]
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[li]Vlad the Impaler - a noble king, clad in gold armor and draped in a blood red sash, marches proudly into the arena, sheathed in his belt, a massive sword with a bat and skull emblem, in his hand, a 12’ long wooden pike. He’s a brutal fighter, not only with great cleaving sword, but he’s also been known to drive the pike through the skull of his enemies.[/li][/ul]
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[li]Vladimir Rasputin - a dirty, sinister looking mage floats ominously into the arena, his eyes closed, his hands pressed firmly together as though he was praying to some higher power. He’s lanky and muscular, and stands easily 7’ tall. Throwing off his coat of rags, he levitates high above the ground and blasts the other fighters with a bizarre stream of magic and fire.[/li][/ul]
those are just some quicky ideas, here’s a list of other characters that could be done, most of these are from Western History, since I’m not really familiar with the historical figures of the rest of the world:
Caeser
Brutus
Ghengis Khan
Napoleon (leggo my eggo)
Billy the Kid
Leonardo da Vinci
Alexander the Great
Cleopatra
Tutankhamun
Caligula
Lady Godiva
Eric Bloodaxe
William the Conqueror
Henry the fifth
The Marquis de Sade
Snofru
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Lizzy borden
Edgar Allen Poe
:rolleyes:.