Mortal Kombat is one of those series that is here to stay.
After coming very close to being the victim to a fatality to having it coming back for
round two with the recent reboot of the franchise.
But Mortal Kombat is riding high right now, so now is a great time to go back and revisit
what got the series to this point.
Released for the PSN and also XBLA, this is the first game in the Mortal Kombat Arcade
Kollection, spelled with a “K,” of course.
This is a true port of the arcade version of Mortal Kombat, and do you know what a true
arcade port means: It’s hard, it’s really really hard.
Remember this was not designed to give you an enjoyable gaming experience that leaves
you happy and satisfied.
No, this was designed to punish you and leave you happy enough to feed another quarter into
the machine.
Mortal Kombat is on paper a very basic game.
The game offers seven different fighters to choice from, represented with digitized graphics.
The game doesn’t really seem to have much going for it.
If only there was something they could add to the game that would make it stand out from
all the other fighting games.
If only there was something, but what could they add.
Hmmmmmm.
Oh yeah, they could have the game being so incredibly violent with over the top gore
and blood.
It truly is beautiful and almost brings a tear to the eye.
I’m reminded at the end of each match why I fell in love with this game in the first
place.
How could someone watch Sub-Zero rip out someone’s spine and not be filled with happiness.
And even though they have now have a HD remake, it brings back the memories seeing them the
way they original were.
The game is a great reminder for people who played these games back in the arcade.
The game offers many filters with one even curving the edge of the screen to make it
look like an arcade cabinet.
And even though the game does have a limited number of fighters it doesn’t hold the game
back because each character is very much their own, expect for Scorpion and Sub-zero which
are the same character with a their colors changed.
But there is a reason these characters continue on and are so endeared by legions of fans.
And the levels are few, but each one is memorable.
Also mixed in is online competition, not spelled with a “K”.
Few things give me more happiness than the ability to play classic Mortal Kombat online.
There is nothing, nothing better than being able to get completely and utterly destroyed
online by some random person and watch them perform a fatality just to rub it in a little
more.
It’s the way things are meant to be.
The online is solid if not basic.
There is no party system or replay.
Just the ability to play online and leaderboards.
But the online is solid and I have not had any problems with it.
It runs smooth with little to no lag, and that’s all I ask for.
Mortal Kombat has always been a fairly bare bones fighter.
But with great characters, good fighting mechanics and all the memorial gore, what it makes for
is a great game.
This is a great port of the arcade, with all the difficulty and the secrets.
It reminds fans of the series why they fell in love in the first place.