Review

Without a doubt, the inferior fighting game franchise to come out of the 90's. For me, this would never compete with the mighty Street Fighter. There were never enough characters, never enough moves, the fighting was bugged (you could just sweep an opponent to death) and it felt far too choppy (even for the technological constraints at the time). They tried to make a game that was far too serious and compensated for a lack of ingenuity with shed loads of blood and violent finishing moves.

Who were they trying to kid!? The faux-3D graphics weren't fooling anybody, the music was sub par and the stages and arenas were nothing special either. The depressing/intense mood they were trying to convey always took the fun out of playing it for me when I was a kid, the lame character choices and complete lack of variety in the move lists made it feel like a very claustrophobic game to boot.

Comments

RB6K

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Apr 19 17:54

Dont forget the sequels to this game became poorer and poorer before transferring to CD's/DVDS where they have shown a marked improvement! Film wise though, id stick with MK over SF i think. Although iv not seen Street Fighter for absolutely ages i just dont remember it being as great as Mortal Kombat.

Added by Grand Assault 1 year ago on 19 April 2008 05:23